May 23rd, 2012· New version of RapidTyping Manual added.
· Farsi interface language updated.
· other minor bugs fixed;
April 30th, 2012Typing test:
Expert courses are available for the following keyboard layouts:
· Arabic ASDF Eastern with Arabic-Indic digits;
· German (Dvorak Type)
· German (NEO)
· German (de_ergo)
· German (Latin1 without dead keys)
· Greek (220)
· Greek (220)
· Greek (319
· Greek (220) Latin
· Greek (319) Latin
· Greek Latin
· Greek Polytonic
· Russian (Typewriter);
· US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L;
Other:
· Latvian interface language added; thanks to Anete
· other minor bugs fixed;
April 13th, 2012Typing test:
· BiDi algorithm added( full support Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Khmer, Thai and other languages );
· in current version the real font can be chosen for lesson;
· bug for missed space character at the end of the line( in Multi-edit mode ) fixed;
· Arabic beginner and expert typing course updated. ( requires lesson reinstall )
· English expert typing course updated. ( requires lesson reinstall )
Other:
· Windows 2000 compatibility restored;
· RapidTyping news buttons for Google+, Facebook, Twitter added; ( under "About" )
· saving splitter position added;
· Arabic interface language updated;
· Greek interface language updated;
· other minor bugs fixed;
February 4th, 2012Typing Test View:
· auto-wrap feature added;
· tabulation support added;
· line break support added;
· special marks (including Tab, Line Break, Space) improved (smooth, scaling);
· special marks in right left languages inverted;
· Typing lesson editing
· import lesson text in .rtf format feature added
· insert line break and tabulation lesson feature added
· when inserting text into lesson the check symbols on keyboard added
· the "New Lesson - (#)" label added by default to "New Lesson" dialog
· when lesson editing or selecting the fast reaction on virtual keyboard and lesson property added
· when you type a character in lesson the letter is show immediately on virtual keyboard and the property table updates immediately
· support the lesson size until 4Gb added
· Virtual keyboard
· translation control keys added
· auto-wrap the long control keys' names ( ex. Num Lock ) added
Typing Lessons:
· English expert typing course updated. Tabulation and line break marks added. (requires lessons reinstall)
· Russian expert typing course updated. Tabulation and line break marks added. (requires lessons reinstall)
Interface Translation:
· French language updated
· Greek language updated
· Chinese Traditional language updated
· German language updated
· Russian language updated
Other:
· when choosing to continue the lesson with "do nothing" selected, the key is now highlighted, after making mistake a correctly;
December 27th, 2011Typing lesson editing:
· Drag & Drop function for lesson list editor added;
· context menu in Lesson Editor added;
· Cut, Copy and Paste functions in context menu in Lesson Editor added;
Virtual keyboard:
· touch screen support added;
· keys under cursor( or finger in touchscreen mode ) now highlighted;
· new highlight toggle feature for Control key( Shift, Ctrl, Alt );
Typing test statistics:
· percentage ratio of errors for wrong letters typed for the whole lesson is shown;
Languages:
· Traditional Chinese interface language updated ( thank you Robert Lee );
· Greek interface language updated ( thank you www.geogeo.gr );
· Russian interface language updated ( thank you Tatiana Belous );
Other:
· arranging the application titlebar for left & right position( with languages ) added;
· refreshing the application titlebar after interface language changed;
· other minor bugs fixed;
December 1st, 2011· delay with selecting statistics cells for large statistics reports fixed;
· keys can be highlighted individually in statistics view ( lesson tab );
· confirmation box for removing selected lesson(s) added;
· saving (multi)selection in statistics view ( course/ lesson tabs ) added;
· inversion of selection in statistics view added;
· all error keys can be highlighted using Ctrl+A in statistics view;
· double-click to lesson statistics cells to show lesson letters table;
· removing first lesson bug fixed;
· bottom panel in statistics view and editor view reduced;
· last selected item in editor view fixed;
· lesson text color enhanced;
· background music bug fixed;
· button focus bug fixed;
· other minor bugs fixed;
November 14th, 2011· added the Greek course
· added support for the 680x420 screens;
· added support screen rotation;
· added the "blank" lesson background;
· added the word count in the lessons editor;
· moved the "Show/Hide keyboard" option to the user level page;
· fixed the delay for loading the course on the weak video cards on Windows 7
· fixed minimize/maximize bug for left, right or top Task Bar;
· fixed splitter bug for maximized window;
· fixed some minor bugs;
August 17th, 2011· added Windows Themes support ( the contrast schemes, big fonts, not-system fonts support )
· added the finger scheme for Anti-RSI layout( Two hands #6 )( thanks to Robert Boari )
· added the changing of the statistics parameters on the Results dialog box
· improved common application performance
· some user interface improvements
· fixed bug with Greek accents;( thanks to Sotiris Theodosopoulos )
· fixed some minor bugs
May 27th, 2011· Added multi-line support
· Added support of the Alt+Shift+key
· Improved running speed ( including running by LAN and Flash card )
· Improved user interface
December 24th, 2010· Added the BackSpace key support;
Added modes for continue lesson:
· "Requires the fixing the wrong characters";
· "Requires the right character type",
· "No requirements";
Speed up the startup application:
· Updated Chinese Traditional translation ( thanks to Robert Lee );
November 18th, 2010· Added full German lesson course; Thanks to Matthias Eller
· Added full Arabic lesson course; Thanks to Ibraheem Saed
· Added Tips panel for beginner;
· Added the lesson creating from file(s)
· Added the silent install mode;
· Updated the German interface translation. Thanks to Matthias Eller
· Fixed the font char-set bug in some languages;
· Fixed some controls in the right-left interface.
September 14th, 2010· Added Arabic interface language; Thanks to Ibraheem Saed
· Fixed bug with right-left text direction on the Arabic and Hebrew keyboard layout;
· Fixed visual bug with pictures in the lesson window on some video-cards;
· Removed a repeated sounds on the Shift key;
· Updated Chines Traditional interface language;
· Updated Bosnian interface language;
July 17th, 2010· Added lesson background schemes;
· Added support the right-left languages in the typing lessons;
· Improved work on older video cards.
· Fixed the running bug on the some Windows version.
June 30th, 2010· Added Greek interface language.
· Updated Chinese Traditional interface language.
· Updated Bulgarian interface language.
· Updated Farsi interface language.
· Fixed bug with system context menu ( by Alt+Enter ).
· Fixed bug with label and the numbers on "Results" dialog box on the left are in WPM.
· Fixed the running bug on the Windows XP SP2.
June 16th, 2010· Added Farsi interface language;
· Added support right-left interface;
· Added the control "Sound" in the main window;
· Added the background music;
· Added more 30 sound effects;
· Added the mode of the random choose of sound effect;
· Added support of the sound schemes.
May 12th, 2010· Added icons for marking of numpad/mainpad lessons;
· Added dialogs "Lesson Properties", "Section Properties";
· Added 99 colors for interface themes;
· Fixed bugs of user course editing;
· Fixed disappearance of the translation in the dialog "Options";
· Fixed visual bug on the splitter;
· Fixed sound-driver bug on some versions of the Windows 7
April 21st, 2010· added Copy & Paste menu to the Lesson Editor;
· fixed restoring of Lesson Editor tabs state;
· added the system key names on the virtual keyboard;
· fixed saving some user files under the Vista/Windows 7( require full reinstall for version 3.0 and 3.1 );
· added dialog "Course Properties";
· fixed highlight of virtual keyboard in the lesson editor;
· added numeric pad typing lessons;
· added numeric virtual keyboard;
· fixed import bugs of user lessons from version 2;
· fixed rename user lesson bug;
April 21st, 2010· added the full courses for Dvorak, Dvorak left hand, Dvorak right hand layouts.
· added Albanian translation. Thanks to Artur Lugu, Teola Shkodra, Loreta Tomaj.
· added keyboard auto-detect.
· added a new keyboard types.
· improved the basic and main courses( corrected and added lessons for all keyboard types ).
· added welcome message on the start lesson.
· updated the French translation. Thanks to Sophie.
· updated the dialog buttons.
· fixed bug with updating of the 'Current language' caption on the dialog 'Options'.
· fixed bug with coloring menu on the dialog 'Options'.
· changed color of the current lesson text( lighter now ).
· fixed memory leaks.
March 17th, 2010· added Albanian interface translation
March 17th, 2010· Available in 19 languages.
· A new User's Manual.
· Added touch typing lesson course for Spanish Traditional and Ecuador keyboards.
· Improved interface of application.
· Fixed bug on the Hungary virtual keyboard.
· Improved large lessons performance.
· Support for a new lesson courses created users.
· Improved navigation by lessons.
March 11th, 2010· Includes a large number of new features and bug fixes
December 28th, 2009· Added: Shortcuts editing;
· Fixed: Some minor bugs;
December 28th, 2009· Added: Handling characters with accents that are not on the keyboard ( thanks Don Loseff )
· Fixed: multi-user bug on a peer to peer network ( Jackie Rowell )
December 14th, 2009· Added: Chines Simplified interface language;(thanks fksec)
· Fixed: some major bugs;
December 14th, 2009· Added: Portugal Brazilian interface language (thanks to Gustavo Firveda);
· Added: Alternative finger-placement schemes (thanks to Peter Gibney);
· Added: Finger-placement for left and right hands (thanks to Ralph Abraham);
· Added: 2 and 3-block keyboard types(thanks to Davis Sheyko );
· Added: Illumination of erroneously typed characters on the lesson window (thanks to Peter Gibney);
· Updated: Chines interface language (thanks to Robert Lee);
· Fixed: some minor bugs;
December 14th, 2009· Added: illumination of erroneously typed characters on the virtual keyboard( thanks to Peter Gibney);
· Added: Estonian translations in the main package( thanks to Street Jaanus )
· Added: full Windows 7 compatibility;
· Fixed: some minor bugs;
December 14th, 2009· Aded: sound scheme setup;
· Fixed: some minor bugs;
June 3rd, 2009· Added: themes of dialogs;
· Fixed: minor bugs;
January 23rd, 2009· Fixed major bugs
· Added Indonesian interface
January 2nd, 2009· - Chinese( Taiwan ) interface
· - full support Unicode interface
· - Minor bugs are fixed
November 27th, 2008· disable animation
· button "Rename Lesson"
· Lithuanian interface
· changing the placement Typing Lessons
October 15th, 2008· Import lesson from the file is added.
· Check Caps Lock is added.
· Icon program is update.
· Spanish interface is updated.
September 30th, 2008· The grouping of statistics is added.
· Filter by type lessons is added;
· The multi-selection of points chart is added.
September 10th, 2008· Correct error with removing last point of diagram.
September 8th, 2008· The maximize of main window is added.
· Correct scaling the virtual hands.
· Correct error with the splitters.
September 6th, 2008· Some parameters statistics course are added.
· The Select and the Customize parameters statistics course are added.
September 6th, 2008· Some parameters statistics course are added.
· The Select and the Customize parameters statistics course are added.
July 31st, 2008· Typing lessons are added.
· Minor bugs fixed.
· Significantly improved manual.
· Slovak interface language is added.
· Turkish interface language is added.
· Installation is improved.
· Addition 'Additional Lessons' 1.3 are updated.
June 12th, 2008· Table of records is added.
May 11th, 2008· Minor bugs are fixed
May 6th, 2008· Minor bugs are fixed
May 5th, 2008· Fix bugs with no-name layouts.
April 21st, 2008· Vista bugs are fixed. ZIP and SFX formats of portable version are added.
April 14th, 2008· Minor bugs are fixed.
April 10th, 2008· Minor bugs are fixed.
· Restore all options is added.
April 3rd, 2008· New chart of statistics is added.
March 27th, 2008· Bosnian interface language is added. Minor bugs are fixed.
March 24th, 2008· French interface language is added. Significantly improved lesson editor, properties lessons are added.
March 15th, 2008· Portuguese interface language is added.
· Dialog Results is improved
· Diagram of symbol errors is added.
March 10th, 2008· Dialog Results is improved, last text with mark errors is added.
March 5th, 2008· Dialog Results is improved, chart of statistics is added. Minor bugs are fixed.
February 26th, 2008· Spanish interface language is added.
· 'Àlready typed' letters scroll to the left of the rectangular cursor.
· The typed letters change from 'Black' to 'Red' after being typed.
· Minor bugs fixed.
January 24th, 2008· All letter of lesson illumination is added.
December 27th, 2007· Hot keys are added.
· Minor bugs are fixed.
December 6th, 2007· The ability to set where the user data is stored is added.
· Minor bugs are fixed.
October 19th, 2007· Bulgarian, Russian virtual keyboards are added; Minor bugs are fixed.
October 4th, 2007· Problem with Cyrillic fonts is fixed. The choice of fonts is added.
September 21st, 2007· Lots of minor bugs is fixed
September 8th, 2007· Keyboard illumination added. Help updated. Minor bug fixed.