Version 0.931a online (MacOS surgery bug located!)

Just a quick note that the MacOS KLO bug for surgery diagrams has now been resolved, and Version 0.931a is online with that fixed (Windows version remains unchanged)!  Many thanks to Geoffrey Sangston for sending me a document producing the crash, which makes such issues much easier to identify!

For any techies or those curious: for some reason, the Boost cpp_rational constructor is throwing an an exception in the MacOS build if you try to construct a rational number with a negative denominator (!), instead of just negating the numerator and denominator and continuing happily along.  Strange...

Welcome, ICERM participants!

Welcome to ICERM workshop participants (thanks to Ken Baker for the publicity)!  Please subscribe to this blog (on the right) to be kept up to date on new versions and features, as we move toward version 1.0.

I've been pretty bad about announcing new features and updates up to now, without a central spot to put the announcements (apologies!); this blog should help out as a central spot.

Also, please note that kirbycalculator.net is going away as a domain, in favor of http://klo-software.net.

KLO 0.93a

Moving toward version 1.0, KLO 0.93a is now online at http://www.klo-software.net:

• New knots can now be entered via Dowker codes, either the traditional space-separated list of even number (negative to reverse crossings) or via the shorter codes (bca = 4 6 2) using lower-case letters without spaces (uppercase to reverse crossings).
• A new Convert menu that houses what used to be in buttons to convert between surgery and Kirby diagrams and to generate Kirby diagrams for 2-fold branched covers of knots, as well as a new feature to clone a diagram into a new document considering it as a plain old knot, allowing hyperbolic comparisons (via the SnapPea kernel), a few invariant computations, etc.
• Fixed a little bug where KLO would try to do a meta-clasp-blowup on a non-embedded 2-gon when it's clicked on (which it shouldn't, and KLO would crash).
• 0.93a on the Mac is a clean rebuild after updating my Mac build machine, MacOS, XCode, and Qt; Mac 0.921a showed some strange little user interface quirks (though it's the same code used on Windows) that I hope have been resolved. 

Please let me know of any issues with KLO if you find any (sending the recovered document after a crash makes it much easier to find the cause)!