TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 4.5.0.1784 - Changelog

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 4.5.0.1784:

January 28th, 2012

New:
· Option to limit the number of open tabs.
· Fixed: Documentation failed to display in 64bit systems.
· Updated: Documentation.
· Changed: Donation button.
· Changed: Small improvements to the Exceptions algorithm.
· Updated: Miscellaneous optimizations of the index search.
· Updated: Improved speed performance of all word list operations.
· Changed: Miscellaneous small misalignment errors in the option pages.
· Updated: Detection of newer Windows OS versions ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
· Updated: License agreement.
· Changed: Display of the operating system information ('System Information' tab in 'About' dialog).
· Fixed: Rare write error in settings file.

Database:
· Added: Transcriptions.
· Added: Definitions.
· Added: Thesaurus entries.
· Added: Examples.

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 4.0.1774:

November 18th, 2010

New:
· One-click word capture; Mouse-driven library (implementation + options).
· Implementation of the word list tool (GUI + algorithms + options).
· Word list operations (union, intersection,...), import/export, etc.
· Multiple selection in wildcard/anagram result tabs + context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
· Multiple selection in similarity tool result tabs + context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
· Multiple selection in phonetic search tool result tabs + context menu to save to word list/clipboard/etc.
· Greedy antonym search option for Lookup tool (algorithm + GUI). Triples the amount of antonyms returned.
· Greedy antonym search option for Semantic similarity tool (algorithm + GUI).
· Option to start/stop the (random) animation of TheSage's system tray icon.
· Detection of all Windows OS versions on the market plus some additional data (About dialog, System Information tab).
· Chronological and alphabetical list for history tool (implementation + options).
· Copy entire lookup to the clipboard.
· Copy entire thesaurus entry to the clipboard.
· Copy all definitions of a part of speech to the clipboard.
· Option to ignore anagrams smaller than user-defined number of characters.
· Option to ignore acronyms in Anagram search.
· Option to purge history of duplicates.
· Wildcard search option to automatically detect search patterns in lookup entry field if [ENTER] pressed.
· "Private release" tab in About dialog as well as small modifications in Splash page (added clickety).

Changed:
· Small reorganization of pages related to the Lookup tool in the Options dialog.
· Anagram algorithm now searches for largest anagrams rather than alphabetically nearest in index.
· Wildcard and anagram tools have their own pages in the Options dialog.
· Middle-click on the Lookup search box, the box is cleared before pasting the clipboard contents and triggering a lookup
· Update dialog modifications to work with new versioning system.
· Update dialog now announces private releases to alert donors.
· About dialog now includes release type (public vs private).
· Documentation update.

Fixed:
· Typo in lookup tree context menu.
· Calling up the documentation form the Options dialog failed on some browsers' new versions.
· Concordancers failed to carry out lookups when multiple lemmas were listed.
· If a default installation is detected, the history and search pattern files are now placed in the user's [application data] directory. Also, TheSage now automatically relocates these files if they were misplaced by an earlier version of TheSage.
· The 'Apply' button became permanently enabled on certain occasions.
· Depending on which tool's appearance was affected, the 'Apply' button was not enabled after selecting a default font.
· In an extremely rare case, the lookup queue was not processed entirely.

Database:
· Added: Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.8.1770:

November 18th, 2010

Changed:
· "Support" tab in About dialog (remove PayPal link)

Database:
· Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.7.1766:

November 18th, 2010

New:
· Middle-click on the Lookup search box triggers a "Paste and Go", that is, paste clipboard contents and lookup.

Database:
· Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.6.1764:

November 18th, 2010

Changed:
· Improve speed performance of Wildcard search
· Improve speed performance of Definition/example searches

Database:
· Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.5.1762:

November 18th, 2010

Changed:
· Improve speed performance of Lookup search
· Improve speed performance of Phonetic search
· Improve speed performance of Anagram search

Database:
· Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.4.1760:

November 18th, 2010

New:
· Interface to faster, learner, meaner database format

Database:
· Faster, learner, meaner database format.
· Added Transcriptions, Definitions, Thesaurus entries, Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.3.1758:

November 18th, 2010

Fixed:
· Small memory leaks (24 bytes) in GDI.
· Small memory leak freeing library module.
· Corrected spelling/typo errors in Changelog.

Database:
· Added Transcriptions
· Added Definitions
· Added Thesaurus entries
· Added Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.2.1752:

November 18th, 2010

Fixed:
· In some cases, duplicates were included among thesaurus results.

· Changed: Versioning system. The first number will refer to major feature upgrade, the second to other upgrades (minor features, fixes, changes), and the third to betas (which will continue to be absent from this Changelog). Thus, when releasing, the third number now will stand for the database version.

Database:
· Added Transcriptions.

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1746:

November 18th, 2010

Database:
· Added Transcriptions
· Added Definitions
· Added Thesaurus entries
· Added Examples

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.2.1744:

November 18th, 2010

Fixed:
· 'Check for updates' did not function properly if it had previously failed to connect.

Changed:
· (Vista only) If installed in the [Program Files] directory with UAC enabled, all sorts of kooky behaviour affected the saving of settings, history, etc. These files are now saved to the user's [AppData] directory.
· Other installs are unaffected and TheSage remains fully portable.

Database:
· Added Transcriptions

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.1.1742:

January 7th, 2009

· Fixed: Kooky behaviour when a previous instance is running (only affected the termination of the second instance).
· Fixed: Erratic crash on some machines caused by invoking the Lookup search box context-menu right after starting TheSage.
· New: Lookup search box steals focus after a database operation.
· Changed: (Installer for Vista only) Requires admin level for UAC.
Database:
· Added: Transcriptions.
· Added: Definitions.
· Added: Thesaurus entries.
· Added: Examples.

What's new in TheSage's English Dictionary and Thesaurus 3.1.0.1740:

January 5th, 2009

· New: Documentation.
Database:
· Added: Transcriptions.
· Added: Definitions.
· Added: Thesaurus entries.
· Added: Examples.