Kana no quiz Changelog

What's new in Kana no quiz 1.9.5

Jun 16, 2011
  • Added Spanish and Galician translations.
  • Some little bug fixes.

New in Kana no quiz 1.9 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Vocal pronouncing of all kana (w/ male & female voices).
  • Switchable kana image theme (with the addition of a second theme, taken from the GPL program "Kana Test").
  • Faster loading and enhanced design of the big kana table window.
  • Updated Polivanov system (new transcripted kana).

New in Kana no quiz 1.7 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Brand new & great kana table window providing a very conveniant way to either view the full kana list (with transcription, and respecting traditionnal order), select the portion to be trained upon, or see high size kana image (by clicking
  • on thumbnails).
  • New kana image scaling feature (user may choose the relative size of the kana images which appear during the quiz).
  • Optional use of Psyco to increase Kana no quiz's overall speed.
  • All images have now switched to PNG format instread of GIF.
  • Removing the Tkinter GUI to keep back the GTK as the unique interface for Kana no quiz.
  • Various GUI design enhancements
  • Important code style cleanups plus programming design optimizations (thanks to Jeremy Bowers' patches in particular).

New in Kana no quiz 1.5 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • System-wide installation & per-user configuration.
  • More complete quiz result informations (wrong answer recap).
  • Windows binary installation package.
  • No more learning flow disturbance within a quiz using the text-entry answering method.
  • Added possibility to extend random answers selection range
  • from the same portion to the same kana set or kind.
  • Added Polivanov's kana cyrillization system.
  • New Russian translation (made by Aleksej R. Serdyukov).
  • New German translation (made by Florian Niemann).
  • A quit button added to the main window.

New in Kana no quiz 1.4b (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Language confusion between Serbian & Swedish with the Tkinter interface corrected.
  • Update of the Swedish translation.

New in Kana no quiz 1.4 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • You can now choose several portions of the same kana set totrain upon in the same time (if no portion selected in a set, that one becomes disabled :p).
  • Random list answer mode now permits up to five choices.
  • Support for the 2 other popular romanization systems: the Kunrei-shiki's and the Nihon-shiki's. (Because they are really less used worldwide than the Hepburn's, choosing one of these systems remains for people who know what they are doing.)
  • Some informations are now displayed during the quiz (romanization system used and question number) and you can choose to stop it after every answer.
  • Bug fix: no more endless quiz
  • Some improvements over the GTK+ interface, and replacement of the depracted widgets.
  • Addition of a marvellous icon (GTK+ version)!
  • Translations update (except for Brazilian).

New in Kana no quiz 1.2d (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Addition of a Serbian translation.
  • Some (English) spelling corrections.

New in Kana no quiz 1.2c (Jun 16, 2011)

  • A bug created in the last version has been fixed.
  • Now the ``kana engine" should be clean

New in Kana no quiz 1.2b (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Bug fix : prevention, while doing the quiz using the randomlist mode, of getting the right answer appearing twice in the list.
  • The interface type used by Kana no quiz is now indicatedin the ``About" window.

New in Kana no quiz 1.2 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • The Sweedish translation has been finaly updated.
  • In the GTK version, we can choose the length of the quiz
  • from 1 to 200 questions.
  • Addition of a new option to not repeat the same kana
  • during the quiz (as much as possible: a kana might appear
  • several time if the quiz lenght is bigger than the number of
  • selected kana).