Beta Release Notes

  • The work in FieldWorks version 9.2.x has focused on adding the ability to export dictionaries directly to Word.
  • There are some new features in the area of the automatic parsers.
  • Very little has changed in other parts of FLEx, apart from a number of bug fixes.
  • With this version, only 64-bit installers will be available.

Changes in version 9.2.5 (Beta) compared to FW 9.1 (stable)

General Issues:

  • LT-8297 [New Feature] Ability to move fields up and down in Lexicon Edit.
  • LT-20509 Words with undefined phonemes can’t be deleted from Word Analyses.
  • LT-20987 Crash occurs in Manage Dictionary view dialog.
  • LT-21388 FlexBridge merge breaks xml:space, resulting in lost spaces.
  • LT-21686 ‘Configure Dictionary view’ navigates to wrong field if it has a Subsense in an entry.
  • LT-21737 Configure Dictionary highlighting is not working correctly.
  • LT-21829 Lexical Relations no longer being restricted by Publications.
  • LT-21839 Unable to Paste in text due to Yellow box Error.
  • LT-21955 Remove Display in Paragraph configuration on normal note fields.
  • LT-21963 Copy ms localization to zlm for standard Malay.
  • LT-22008 Some ELAN flextext files cannot be loaded into Flex.

New features in the parser:

  • LT-21898 Allow Phonological Features to be specified on RHS of Affix Process Rule.
  • LT-21911 Create Novel Root Guesser.
  • LT-21728 Improve order of suggested parses in interlinear view.
  • LT-21756 Add Parser Test Reports capabilities for the parsers.

Parser related:

  • LT-18682 In the Hermit Crab parser, add parentheses around phonemes in the “Try a word” parsing details.
  • LT-20849 Words cut off in RTL baseline view.
  • LT-20850 Ad hoc query add dialog with RTL WS hides text.
  • LT-20852 Nothing showing in Insert Morpheme Breaks textbox for RTL WS.
  • LT-21584 The Grammatical Info window in the Lexicon-Entry screen is too small.
  • LT-21689 Texts are partially visible under the ‘Occurrence’ column when sorted by ‘Sorted From End’ option.
  • LT-21700 Crash occurred in the Lexeme Form Environments field after copying/pasting a value from the Allomorph Environments.
  • LT-21864 Undo crash in Allomorph – “Affix Process Rule” field.
  • LT-21934 FLEx freezes when clicking “Close” on Try a Word if parse hasn’t completed.
  • LT-21956 Crash while selecting ‘Select All (Ctrl+A)’ in the ‘Affix Processor Rule’ result field.
  • LT-21971 Crash adding a Feature Set under certain circumstances.
  • LT-21783 Stem Name field shows nothing in Browse view.
  • LT-21966 Inflection features not showing correctly in browse column.
  • LT-21883, LT-18677, LT-20753, LT-20314 “NotOnClitics” option unchecked runs phonological rules twice.
  • LT-21939 Hermit Crab reporting a null object reference.
  • LT-20175, LT-21967, LT-21969 Error results when using “Try A Word”.
  • LT-21088, LT-22011 Crashes or yellow box related to moving slots in templates.
  • LT-21974 Forced to click the “Phonemes” link(Insert option) twice to get “Choose Phoneme” dialog box.
  • LT-21653 After creating a new project, the title header in the Texts & Words View is displayed as “No Record”.

Webonary and media files:

  • LT-21470 Creator name is squished when its long in the Picture Properties dialog.
  • LT-21706 Modify UX for upload to Webonary and restrict upload of images without license info.
  • LT-21806 The attached image fails to display in the preview pane of the Configure Dictionary dialog box.
  • LT-21806 The attached image fails to display in the preview pane of the Configure Dictionary dialog box.
  • LT-21887 Crash sending non-.wav files to Webonary.
  • LT-21933 Picture thumbnail is not showing in configuration dictionary dialog.

Changes in version 9.2.5 that only affect users of the Alpha versions (9.2.1 – 9.2.4)

General Issues:

  • LT-21896 Ctrl + J in interlinear texts now gets stuck on Free Translation line.
  • LT-21965 Linking words in interlinear is broken in FW9.2.
  • LT-21980 Crash changing or modifying the grammatical info of a suffix.
  • LT-21998, LT-21979 Crash occurs while performing Morphemes.

Dictionary export to Word:

  • LT-21882 Various issues in the Webonary export due to the work on Word export.
  • LT-21918 Newline symbol \0A printed in output.
  • LT-21982 Remove spaces in Between/After fields of all Pictures nodes in Dict. Config.
  • LT-21673 Implement Bidirectional text handling in Word Export.
  • LT-21768 Implement Custom Bullets and Numbering in Word Export..
  • LT-21891 Word Export should use common double-column format and add guidewords.
  • LT-21942 Fix error exporting Word document from the latest Alpha.
  • LT-21968 Use current version of Word during export.
  • LT-22017 Word export inserts extra spacing with 0embedded styles.
  • LT-21997 Pictures in wrong location in Word export.
  • LT-22006 RTL not working right with double columns in Word dictionary export.