History Changes

Version 1.2 (December 2001 - March 2003)

(from version 1.2.0076 - December 05) More words!
5 new dictionaries. 4 for English 2 Romanian and one for Romanian 2 Englis
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See General Information
made some help updates
some bug fixes (this starts to sound like there are lots of them J )
added a timing routine to measure the duration of the search.
Now you can experiment with the options from Settings/Advanced Settings and
observe the effects on the performance of the program.
(from version 1.2.0078 - December 07) added the ability to display both as
a hint and status bar message the selected line in the description panel
(useful in the rare cases when the line extends beyond the width of the panel
)
(from version 1.2.0079b - December 13) honored the Advanced Search flag for the
new dictionaries. Now if you want to search words/expression that start
with the first letter of your unknown word, the search is MUCH faster.
added a Search as you type option (in both the Advanced Settings and
Settings window) for all the dictionaries.
For better results (only for the new dictionaries!) you should uncheck
the Advanced Search checkbox and keep just the "Most advanced" dictionary
while using this option.
. help updates (especially the Tips and Tricks section).
. (from version 1.2.0079c - January 07, 2002) help updates/corrections
minor GUI fixes
. (from version 1.2.0081 - January 14, 2002) added a shortcut (Alt + D)
to restore focus to the editing control (the line where you enter
the word to search) to speed things up (but I ll probably be
the only one to use this fundamental feature :-) ).
corrected a rather serious bug in one of the English2Romanian dictionary
files (the one with expressions - not used by default) which produced
quite unusual search results.
. (from version 1.2.0082 - February 09, 2002) corrected a bug which caused
sometimes case insensitive search to behave incorrectly (for the
new dictionaries, if advanced search was off and case sensitive was also off)
.
Thanks to Luca who discovered this bug.
added a new ( fundamental ) shortcut (Alt + L) to transform the word in the
editing control (the word you are searching for) into a lower case version
(for example you enter TIPSY and, because by default the dictionary is
case sensitive, you may get no result, so you press the above mentioned
shortcut and it becomes tipsy which is found). For symmetry reasons,
a shortcut for the opposite (and possibly never used) operation (change to
upper case) was added (Alt + U) and one for toggle case (Alt + T).
. (from version 1.2.0084 - February 17, 2002) added a new feature called reverse
translation (Alin's request). What s that? Well, after you search a word and
find a couple of explanations, you might want to find the accurate meaning
of one of the explanations in the searched language. To do that you can
select a line containing one of the explanations (which can have one or
more words), then right click and from the popup menu which will appear
you can choose 2 things:
either Reverse Translation (basic) or Custom Reverse Translation .
The first option attempts to extract a single word from the explanation (and
it is useful when you have only a single word in the explanation) and makes
an inverse translation.
The second option offers more control over the operation and it is very
useful when you have more than one word in the explanation. It presents
the user with a window in which he can select the desired word for reverse

translation. As a hint, to speed up things, one can select a word by double

clicking inside it. But if you have an explanation like asezare, santier
when double clicking the first word the trailing comma will also be selected;
as a result, code was added to remove any trailing commas, dots, brackets
and so on after you press the Translate button!
Therefore, you do not need a perfect selection!
. (from version 1.2.0085 - June 16, 2002) the project was recompiled with
C++Builder 6 (the previous compiler was v5). There is a visible improvement
in terms of speed - somewhere around 50-300%!!! (mainly because of the
new STLport 4.5 implementation of the C++ Standard Template Library which
seems to be optimized from speed).
new hot keys (F2 for History Changes and F3 for Hot Keys).
added context sensitive help to some windows (like the Advanced Search windows).
You can now right click and get immediate help on that particular item.
(from version 1.2.0086 - July 19, 2002 ) - added "Reverse Lookup" (search a
word in the explanations of the reverse dictionary - like select Eng2Rom
dictionary (the new one) enter "elev", check Reverse Lookup, press Enter
and voila! you now have all the English explanations that contain "elev")
This is especially useful for searching Romanian words in the
English2Romanian dictionary (which is the largest dictionary).
added shortcuts for "Reverse Lookup" (Alt + V) and "Exact Match" (Alt + C)
at the suggestion of Tigrutzu (Chip Forum) using the UP/DOWN keys when
searching for a word will scroll through the found entries/descriptions.
. (from version 1.2.0089 - November 02, 2002) - some other time :-) (2 bug fixes
and 3 cosmetic changes)
(from version 1.2.0094 - March 09, 2003) - more cosmetic changes
Version 1.15 (October 2001)
bug fixes
added option to translate from the Clipboard
added minimize to system tray
added speed buttons as requested, for easy access to the dictionaries
changed setup builder
partial rewrite of the source code.
Version 1.1 (2000)
bug fixes
added support for German to Romanian and Romanian to German translations
added support for copy to clipboard (right click an explanation and
choose 'Copy to clipboard' or press Ctrl C)
added an 'Exact Match' search option
dictionary files format changed (elementary encryption - similar
to the one used in the offensive files of the UNIX program fortune)
help file rebuild .
Version 1.0 (1999)
first usable version of the dictionary
added support for English to Romanian and Romanian to English translations
settings are now read from a .ini file and can be saved to the same file
help file created.