Beta Release Notes
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.
Outstanding issues:
- Word export currently resizes pictures to 1″, which may not be what you want.
- Reordering Sense fields in Lexicon Edit will be lost in Send/Receive.
- Some colors in a Word export may not match what’s in Flex.
- Reversal exports in Word may disappear when filtering reversal entries.
Changes in version 9.2.6
- LT-21772 Implement list and paragraph options.
- LT-21818 Issues exporting Indian languages to a document: Complex Font.
- LT-21962 Bulk Edit Reversal filter not showing independent ws filters.
- LT-21970 S/R failure with reordering data entry fields.
- LT-22001 “Hide WS” should not hide it from Configure Columns.
- LT-22002 Crash Occurred while changing same name Character and Paragraph Styles.
- LT-22021 Add Word export doc to Help > Resources menu.
- LT-22025 Font and font size not applied to picture copyright styles.
- LT-22041 Flex crashes on opening with a given picture.
Changes in version 9.2.5
The following issues were fixed in version 9.2.5
- 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-21896 Ctrl + J in interlinear texts now gets stuck on Free Translation line.
- LT-21915 Additional glitches in Move up/Move down options.
- LT-21918 Newline symbol \0A printed in output.
- LT-21955 Remove Display in Paragraph configuration on normal note fields.
- LT-21963 Copy ms localization to zlm for standard Malay.
- LT-21965 Linking words in interlinear is broken in FW9.2.
- LT-21980 Crash changing or modifying the grammatical info of a suffix.
- LT-21982 Remove spaces in Between/After fields of all Pictures nodes in Dict. Config.
- LT-22008 Some ELAN flextext files cannot be loaded into Flex.
The following fixes are 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-21898 Allow Phonological Features to be specified on RHS of Affix Process Rule.
- LT-21911 Create Novel Root Guesser.
- 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-21998, LT-21979 Crash occurs while performing Morphemes.
- LT-21999 Improve saving of parser test reports.
- LT-21971 Crash adding a Feature Set under certain circumstances.
- LT-21972 Root guesser pattern [Seg] should only match one character.
- LT-21973 Root guesser pattern [Seg] should only match one character.
- 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”.
The following are fixes related to 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-21882 Webonary upload not including field separator information in Minor Entries with senses.
- 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.
Data Export to Word Fixes
- 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.
Changes in version 9.2.4
- LT-8297 Add ability to reorder fields in detail view.
- LT-20588 Fix crash in “Affix Process Rule” when clicking on “Column” insert option.
- LT-21585 Fix Hermit Crab Parsing Error yellow box crash.
- LT-21694 Refactor the WordFragmentWriter class to handle adding runs and styles.
- LT-21770 Handle formatting items specified by multiple styles.
- LT-21839 Fix yellow box error blocking pasting in texts.
- LT-21846 Fix yellow highlighter for some words that have more than one analysis.
- LT-21886 Fix crash when deleting phoneme from left side of an affix rule.
- LT-21888 Phoneme/Boundary marker’s “Refer to” can be deleted when editing rules.
- LT-21890 Fix crash deleting from right side of affix process rule.
- LT-21892 Fix “NotOnClitics” box when parsing.
- LT-21894 Make Import Phonology command only available in Grammar area.
- LT-21937 Fix bad footnotes in conceptual intro document.
Changes in version 9.2.3
- LT-21672 Implement Table Generation in Word Export.
- LT-21674 Export all Before/After content as content using the Dictionary-Context style.
- LT-21701 Fix the “Find” button in Dictionary view which has been broken since FW9.0.17.
- LT-21705 Don’t delete any sound files that are still being used.
- LT-21707 Create and use styles in the exported Word document.
- LT-21708 Export embedded images with their captions in the Word Export.
- LT-21751 Implement Writing System styles in Word export.
- LT-21761 Handle “Display in Separate Paragraphs” option in Word export styles.
- LT-21769 Handle “Based On” property for styles.
- LT-21771 Implement generate grouping node in Word export.
- LT-21778 Fix continuation styles to be compatible with image textframe styles in Word export.
- LT-21824 Fix punctuation error in custom field name, even after removing punctuation.
- LT-21830 Implement separate paragraphs in Word export.
- LT-21835 Improve Parser Testbed UI.
- LT-21840 Correct missing Before/Between/After text in lexical relations.
- LT-21852 Fix import Phonology command mistakenly suggests an SFM file is needed for the import.
- LT-21854 Fix Delete reports button which was not working properly and it led to crash.
- LT-21855 Fix scrolling function in “Parse Test Reports”.
- LT-21858 The ‘Parser test reports’ pane now highlights an accurate report.
- LT-21859 Fix minor problems in parser test reports.
- LT-21863 Add a comment field to Parser Test Reports.
- LT-21865 Fix parser hanging on non-primary writing system.
- LT-21868 Fix Run Tests should use wordforms with no. in corpus > 0.
- LT-21869 Allow Run Tests report columns to expand.
- LT-21872 Fix Import Phonology crashes in Grammar area.
- LT-21894 Make Import Phonology command only available in Grammar area.
- LT-21909 Add a hyphen in “Remove Parser approved analyses”.
Changes in version 9.2.2
- LT-20849 Fix words cut off in RTL baseline views.
- LT-21586 Export/Import Phonology.
- LT-21708 In word export, fix caption character styles.
- LT-21728 Improve order of suggested parses in interlinear view.
- LT-21756 Add Parser Test Reports capabilities for the parsers.
- LT-21788 Display inflection features for affixes.
- LT-21807 Fix pictures in subentries in Word export.
- LT-21816 Show primary lex entry for Inflectional variant.
- LT-21823 Add more style support.
- LT-21838 Improve refresh in dictionary view.
- LT-21851 Fix crash when clicking on ‘Choose inflection features’ in the Bulk Edit Entries view.
Changes in version 9.2.1
- LT-10373 Fix Try A Word crashes.
- LT-19859 Update FLEx Chart XLingPap.
- LT-21582 Pass variant inflection features to Hermit Crab.
- LT-21611 XAmple now sees affix variants.
- LT-21674 The before/after/between contents now uses the Dictionary-Context style.
- LT-21702 Fix reversal failing on jump.
- LT-21728 Parse Prioritizer.
- LT-21771 Support indentation for groups in Word Export.
- LT-21785 Add more style support.
- LT-21786 Show Variant info for analysis chooser.
- LT-21787 Fix hyperlink to another project.
- LT-21797 Add missing highlights in analysis tab..
- LT-21810 Fix yellow crash while parsing with “Default Parser(XAmple)” on capitalized word.
- LT-21813 Fix problem of FLEx using CultureInfo correctly.
- LT-21814 Proposed analysis improved to show on all words in text.
- LT-21815 Fix Yellow backgrounds in focus boxes.
- LT-21821 Fix links to other areas of project.
- LT-21822 Display failed jump message when attempting to jump to an entry that has been deleted.
Changes in version 9.2.0 (since version 9.1.25)
- Change parser to parse lowercase forms of uppercase words separately.
- LT-20854 Fix baseline tab focus after returning from different area.
- LT-21741 Adds a new xample64.dll file to improve efficiency.
- LT-21776 Allow newly added vernacular writing systems to be analyzed.
- LT-21728 Implement Parse Prioritizer in Interlinear.
- LT-21713 Clear the error status during cold start retry.
- LT-20853 Fix FocusBox word bundle elements’ order.
- Throw a useful error message if the normalizer didn’t load.
- LT-20855 Fix unlink button position for right to left.
- LT-20228 Stop displaying cloud-api in the Upload to Webonary Dialog.
- LT-21720 Persist the location of the Writing System Dlg.
- LT-21634 Improve Style Generation.
- LT-21424 Fix Approve undo issue, Fix ‘Approve Throughout this Text’ for capitals, Check lowercase for parsing and ‘Try a word’, Do lowercase matching for all occurrence indexes.
- LT-21721 Fix regression that Enter should move to trans or note.
- LT-21443 ‘Approve All’ – Fix Approve errors and mark as user-approved.
- LT-21666 Default complex form type for phrase to N/A.
- LT-21731 Submit possible fix to the root cause.
- LT-21438 Webonary – generate entries before headings.
- LT-21679 Make custom numbers work for more than 9 senses.
- Added cmd capability to clone and open a project.
- LT-21670 Use the CustomHomographNumbers for Sense Numbers.
- LT-20890 Get SenseNumber styling working.
- LT-21648 Add “Caption (or Headword)” to Dictionary Config.
- LT-21677 Use exact matching for lang tags.
- LT-21668 Fix broken SFM import with \rf.
- Simplify styles when exporting dictionary content and add direct Word Export option.