OpenCards Changelog

What's new in OpenCards 2.2

Feb 24, 2012
  • Added Simplified Chinese translation (thanks to Lee Darren)
  • Added Japanese translation (thanks to Eberhard Herzog)
  • More smooth (=antialiased) slide rendering on windows and linux
  • Fixed issue 24: Incorrect rendering of text-shape bounding boxes
  • Stability improvements based on community feedback

New in OpenCards 2.1 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • fixed inocorrect email-addrees for automatic bug-reporting
  • Improved synchronization with ppt-files
  • Added drag-and-drop support for ppt-files into OpenCards
  • Improved integration of last-minute learning
  • Better visualization of new cards in schedule preview
  • Open current slide during learning in PowerPoint by double-clicking it

New in OpenCards 2.0 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • update notfication when version of OpenCards are released (issue 19)
  • example card sets in category model to flatten learning curve for new OC-users (issue 22)

New in OpenCards 2 Beta 3 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • CSV-Importer (issue 1)
  • fixed many rough edges in the macos integration
  • proper windwos executable
  • finished porting of all major v1.5 functionality

New in OpenCards 2 Beta 2 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Changed from OpenOffice plugin to standalone application that uses PowerPoint files as major file-format
  • Most other features (categorization, scheduler, ltm-learning) have been ported
  • Temporarily removed features: Reversed cards-sides

New in OpenCards 1.5.1 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Fixed problem when removing last card-set from category

New in OpenCards 1.5 (2 Beta 1) (Oct 31, 2011)

  • increased minimal system requirements to java6 and OpenOffice3.0
  • tag arbitrary shapes as questions
  • automatic parsing of directory structures into a the category model sub-tree
  • category deletions now require additional user confirmation
  • Streamlined problem reporting by auto-composing report email
  • sortable columns in LTM-Manager
  • dramatically improved stability on slow systems (and especially with OpenOffice 3.1, which is much less snappy compared to 3.0)
  • persistent divider-locations for LTM-Manager

New in OpenCards 1.0.1 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • new: notification about exceeded maximal new items limitation
  • improved: replaced logging monitor with log-file
  • fixed: OC crashes on missing question mode
  • fixed: OC crashes when XStyle-name is null
  • improved: introduced short delay before hiding slide-pane to avoid occasional crashes

New in OpenCards 1.0 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • fixed: crash when remove title when there's no title
  • fixed: slide sorter hiding does not work in OpenOffice3
  • improved: OpenOffice3 integration
  • dev: updated build.xml to OpenOffice3-package structure

New in OpenCards 0.16.3 (1.0 RC 6) (Oct 31, 2011)

  • fixed: Keyboard shortcuts are broken when recently found items are being processed
  • fixed: Drag'n'Drop seems to be broken quite often
  • removed: Untranslated dialog that appeared after the end of each last-minute learning session
  • More verbose error messages in crash dialog

New in OpenCards 0.16.2 (1.0 RC 5) (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Adaptive learning dialog layout depending on height/width-ratio
  • Custom field delimiters when importing flashcards
  • Bulgarian translation
  • fixed: Stability problems when switching from one scheduled card-file to the next one
  • fixed: session skipping is broken

New in OpenCards 0.11.2 (1.0 RC1) (Jan 21, 2008)

  • Added icons to context-menu of file-view in the long-term memorization manager
  • Added link to the OpenCards-flashcards repository to the OpenCards-menu
  • LTM-Manager becomes invisible if a card-file is double-clicked
  • The preferences-dialog is resizeable now (which should fix the layout-problem when using Ubuntu)
  • fixed: Auto-select user-interface language (thanks to Charles Brunet)
  • fixed: Negative scheduling-dates in feedback-tooltips
  • fixed: Two-keys-feedback broken when pressing left/right arrow first
  • fixed: The result of a forced synchronization becomes not serialized
  • Various minor stability-, user-interface- and usability improvements