Thanks to some significant bugs in b7c and some other changes we realized we needed to make, we're doing one more experimental release before b8/rc1:
http://www.pleco.com/beta/pd2b7d.zip
(hopefully this will be the last of the b7? releases)
Updated audio files / PlecoMover / PlecoConverter are in this archive as in b7c - see the b7c announcement for more on those.
Aside from a bunch of bug fixes, there are a couple of significant changes in this release:
* A new "Rebuild" option has been added to the "Remap Dicts" popup list in Batch Commands. What this does is recreate each card's headword / pronunciation from the dictionary that it already links to; i.e., it pulls the headword / pronunciation from that dictionary entry and replaces whatever's currently in the card with that. This was added mainly because the new Beta 8 versions of the Oxford dictionary databases have had their headwords significantly updated (finally put in proper traditional characters) and hence the cards that link to them will need to be updated with those new headwords.
* The flashcard duplicate-checking feature now handles Pinyin more intelligently, i.e. it ignores capitalization / spacing / punctuation and just checks to see if the syllables/tones match; Pinyin orthography varies widely between dictionaries so there were a lot of cards that weren't coming up as duplicates because the Pinyin didn't match from one dictionary to another.
* Hardware direction button support improved system-wide on WM, tentatively added to Popup Definition / Manage Flashcards on both Palm and WM, and improved in the document reader on both platforms (pressing right/left with nothing currently highlighted will no longer jump you back/forward in the document, instead the cursor appears at the start/end of the currently visible page).
* Audio on Windows Mobile is now threaded properly, so the interface won't hang / button won't stay highlighted until the audio finishes playing.
Other changes will have to wait until post-2.0, but the first two of these were essential to keep people's data from getting screwed up, the third one had been much-requested and we finally figured out a way to add it without too much difficulty, and the fourth just seemed silly to leave as it was when even on the decidedly less modern Palm OS it could play without hanging up the interface.
http://www.pleco.com/beta/pd2b7d.zip
(hopefully this will be the last of the b7? releases)
Updated audio files / PlecoMover / PlecoConverter are in this archive as in b7c - see the b7c announcement for more on those.
Aside from a bunch of bug fixes, there are a couple of significant changes in this release:
* A new "Rebuild" option has been added to the "Remap Dicts" popup list in Batch Commands. What this does is recreate each card's headword / pronunciation from the dictionary that it already links to; i.e., it pulls the headword / pronunciation from that dictionary entry and replaces whatever's currently in the card with that. This was added mainly because the new Beta 8 versions of the Oxford dictionary databases have had their headwords significantly updated (finally put in proper traditional characters) and hence the cards that link to them will need to be updated with those new headwords.
* The flashcard duplicate-checking feature now handles Pinyin more intelligently, i.e. it ignores capitalization / spacing / punctuation and just checks to see if the syllables/tones match; Pinyin orthography varies widely between dictionaries so there were a lot of cards that weren't coming up as duplicates because the Pinyin didn't match from one dictionary to another.
* Hardware direction button support improved system-wide on WM, tentatively added to Popup Definition / Manage Flashcards on both Palm and WM, and improved in the document reader on both platforms (pressing right/left with nothing currently highlighted will no longer jump you back/forward in the document, instead the cursor appears at the start/end of the currently visible page).
* Audio on Windows Mobile is now threaded properly, so the interface won't hang / button won't stay highlighted until the audio finishes playing.
Other changes will have to wait until post-2.0, but the first two of these were essential to keep people's data from getting screwed up, the third one had been much-requested and we finally figured out a way to add it without too much difficulty, and the fourth just seemed silly to leave as it was when even on the decidedly less modern Palm OS it could play without hanging up the interface.