What's new in XWordGiver 5.1.8
Feb 17, 2024
- Slightly improved Kana dictionaries.
- Made "Choose a pattern from &PAT.txt automatically" default.
- Proper exclusive control.
- Disabled unusable items in the context menu.
- Added "Checking answer" feature to "Solution" menu.
- Corrected display of calculation time.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.6 (Feb 1, 2024)
- Supported TIFF images.
- Improved Input Palette.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.5 (Jan 7, 2024)
- Fixed an issue where extra black area were created when saving a bitmap.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.4 (Jan 4, 2024)
- Displayed the area of the board.
- Enhanced status bar to display policy value and dictionary name etc.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.3 (Dec 25, 2023)
- In "Initialize application", we decided to erase the block information.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.2 (Aug 15, 2023)
- Improved Japanese dictionaries.
- Improved "Policy Preset" dialog. Improved policy descriptions.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.1 (Aug 14, 2023)
- Caret no longer protrudes from the board when deleting a row or column.
- Strengthened PAT.txt.
- Added support for black square pattern sizes up to 45x45.
- Added "Swap Top and Bottom" and "Swap Left and Right" options in the "Help" menu.
- Updated the URLs.
New in XWordGiver 5.1.0 (Jul 1, 2023)
- Improved the input of "ïŒ", "â¯" and "â " etc.
- Rectangular text can be pasted as a board.
- Paste of Excel grid as a board is now possible.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.9 (May 30, 2023)
- Fine-tuned the amount of scrolling for comfortable scrolling.
- Fine-tuned the amount of zoomingfor comfortable zooming.
- Speeded up zooming of the Clue.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.8 (May 29, 2023)
- Supported loading ECW files (of EclipseCrossword).
- Used the ScrollWindow function to speed up scrolling.
- Speeded up caret movement by decoupling the caret drawing from the internal image.
- Speeded up drawing the board in zooming.
- The zoom cannot be smaller than 9%.
- Speeded up putting a character.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.7 (May 28, 2023)
- Improved printing of the outer frame.
- Improved the drawing routine.
- Fixed NumCro drawing.
- Fixed Skeleton View line drawing.
- Improved marked word drawing.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.6 (May 25, 2023)
- Ctrl+Wheel can be used to zoom in on Clues.
- Line widths can now be imported/exported properly.
- Added a setting for the width of the outer frame.
- Fixed drawing of the outer frame.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.5 (May 24, 2023)
- Changed to save line width in LOOKS file.
- Implemented "Recent Files".
- Assign Ctrl+D to "Copy double square word".
- Fixed image not updating when dropped.
- Line width can also be reset.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.4 (May 23, 2023)
- Allowed line widths to be specified. Default line width to 1.0.
- Properly calculating the width of the line.
- Improved drawing of the board.
- Avoided EMF drawing defects for external softwares with incomplete EMF support.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.3 (Mar 24, 2023)
- Made the maximum size of the block patterns 20x20.
- Improved block patterns (PAT.txt).
- Global optimization that focuses on the fact that there are fewer candidates for longer words.
- Improved block patterns dialog.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.2 (Oct 2, 2022)
- Improved "Marking" dialog.
- Correctly undoing "setting a double-frame word".
- Added labels to THEME.txt.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.1 (Oct 1, 2022)
- Strengthened the block patterns.
- Added POLICY.txt. The Policy Presets can now be customized.
- Do not misspell 'skeleton'.
- Added "Marking double-frame word" to "Solution" menu. Improved handling of double-frame.
New in XWordGiver 5.0.0 (Aug 29, 2022)
- Added "Undo" and "Redo" on Toolbar.
- Able to specify the "save to" location by folder drop.
- Don't clear the opening filename when finding a solution.
- Fixed display of the Policy menu.
- Made the XWJ/JSON/XD files to store an integer value under the name "Policy".
- Enabled undoing "Boxes".
- Fixed Undo/Redo.
- Uniformed all the positions and sizes in the forms of (x, y) and (columns x rows).
- Made the default codepage UTF-8 of file reading.
- Modified the values of "Japanese publisher policy (Loose)".
- Added digital signatures as trial.
- Revived the installer.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.9 (Aug 16, 2022)
- Improved the "Policy" menu.
- Improved the "Policy Preset" dialog.
- Saved the latest maximized status of the main window.
- Improved the context menu of board.
- Block patterns available for download (in preparation).
- Dictionaries available for download (in preparation).
- Abolished installer version.
- Fixed display of the candidates.
- Able to set the font name and size to the Text Box.
- Fixed XD file boxes writing.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.8 (Aug 7, 2022)
- Migration of block pattern data from "data.json" to "PAT.txt".
- In the skeleton view, draw small white dots at the four corners so that the margins are not omitted.
- Added "Open PAT.txt" and "Open THEME.txt" to the Help menu.
- Displayed Win32/Win64 on the "About" dialog.
- Added file "THEME.txt" to define the theme preset values.
- Clearly displayed the selection status in the Theme dialog.
- Fixed a bug about handling items on the Theme dialog.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.7 (Aug 6, 2022)
- Improved XD file saving.
- Fixed a bug about NumCro.
- Able to undo the view mode.
- Fixed the display of the title bar.
- Improved the "About" dialog.
- Reordered of items in the Help menu.
- Improved the icons.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.6 (Aug 5, 2022)
- 2022-08-05 ver.4.9.6:
- Fixed the critical bug on ver.4.9.5 that it cannot open the files.
- Added "NumCro Mode" to the "View" menu. It is possible to make a NumCro after creating a problem. You can save the NumCro puzzles to XD or XWJ / JSON files.
- Deleted XWordGiver.py.
- Faster by specifying noexcept keyword.
- Added "Reflect black cells" to the "Help" menu.
- August 05, 2022 ver.4.9.6:
- Fixed a fatal bug that the file could not be opened in ver.4.9.5.
- Added "Nankuro Mode" to the "View" menu. It is possible to make a number cross after creating a question. Nankuro can be saved in XD files and XWJ / JSON files.
- Deleted XWordGiver.py.
- Speed up by specifying the noexcept keyword.
- Added "Reflect black squares" to the "Help" menu.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.5 (Aug 4, 2022)
- Added the ability to highlight textbox in the hint window when clicking on a numbered cell.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.4 (Aug 1, 2022)
- Strengthened the Kanji dictionary.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.3 (Jun 30, 2022)
- The dictionary title is translated by the UI language.
- Also importing dictionaries with the extension ".dic".
- Improved "Policy Preset" dialog.
- Strengthened the Kotowaza dictionary.
- Strengthened the Kana dictionary.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.2 (Mar 17, 2022)
- Added "UI Language Select" to the [Edit] menu.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.1 (Feb 25, 2022)
- Added "Save Overwrite" for application standardization.
- The "View" menu became more compact.
- Improved the way files are loaded and saved.
New in XWordGiver 4.9.0 (Feb 22, 2022)
- Fixed the copying position of boxes.
- Text files can be dropped as text boxes.
- Adjusting the zoom when maximized and the display area is small.
- Improved reading/writing XD files.
- Improved mouse wheel handling.
- Improved boxes.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.9 (Feb 21, 2022)
- Made the skeleton view transparent when copying and printing.
- Boxes (text boxes, image boxes) can be added.
- Monitoring file changes and confirming file save.
- Loading/saving related files in *_files folder when loading/saving the main file.
- Renamed some rules.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.8 (Feb 18, 2022)
- The dictionary "BasicDict-ENG-Modesty.tsv" is added.
- Added "Lowercase" and "Hiragana" to Appearance.
- Able to drop the LOOKS file.
- Renamed "Policies" as "Policy".
- Renamed some policies (English only).
- Abolished "skeleton mode".
- Modified the default policy.
- Added "Copy the multiset of characters" feature.
- Added "policy preset" feature.
- Improved initial position of Clues window.
- Zooming on the entire board after generating the puzzle.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.7 (Feb 17, 2022)
- Added tags to English dictionaries.
- Sorted and uniqued the candidates.
- Fixed drawing of double-frame cell letters on Skeleton View.
- Able to import/export settings (The LOOKS file).
- Modified "File" menu a little.
- Renamed "Settings" as "Appearance".
- Fixed the color of small labels.
- Able to edit "header and remarks" by Ctrl+Enter.
- The supported formats for block image have been expanded.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.6 (Jan 17, 2022)
- Improved READMEs more.
- Fixed a problem where Ctrl+/ could not switch the input direction.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.5 (Dec 13, 2021)
- Human-friendly display of dictionary names.
- Improved the display of the unspecified string of IME.
- Improved drawing of highlight and double-frame cells.
- Improved READMEs.
- Simplified the display of cell position for error messages.
- Changed the specification of the dictionary data.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.4 (Dec 1, 2021)
- Introduced "Any Input" mode. Made it default.
- Improved "Generate from words".
- "View" → "Zoom" → "Fit the whole" (Ctrl+F) added.
- Fixed the fatal bug on generation and policy settings.
- Fixed a fatal bug regarding dictionary switching and hint copying.
- Added highlight feature.
- Added more patterns.
- Made the small letter size 30%.
- Set the skeleton view as the default for non-Japanese users.
- Improved the "Dictionary" menu display.
- Saving the current view mode to the file.
- Saving the current file type.
- Made saving XD Files default for non-Japanese users.
- Improved reading/writing XD files.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.3 (Nov 25, 2021)
- Supported French input (Ctrl+Shift+^ A for  etc.).
- Added a French dictionary.
- Supported Greek and Turkish input.
- Supported reading/writing XD files.
- Improved Header and Notes.
- Command line "--convert input.xwj output.xd" makes file conversion automated.
- Changed to use half-width characters when drawing alphabet and digits.
- Fixed the accelerators.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.2 (Nov 18, 2021)
- Fixed the bugs around "Generate from a word list".
- Dragging with the middle mouse button is now possible.
- Fine-tuned the max word length when linear symmetry.
- Fixed and improved the block patterns.
- Properly handled the parse error when loading "data.json".
New in XWordGiver 4.8.1 (Nov 11, 2021)
- Added "Generate from a word list" feature.
- Relaxed the limit on the size of the board.
- Able to toggle whether the double-frame letters are visible or not.
- Do not repeatedly warn about the existence of unregistered words.
- Added "Insert Row/Column" feature.
- Added "Delete Row/Column" feature.
- Improved "Erase Configuration".
- Improved GUI a little.
- Improved the English of the GUI.
- Added more block patterns.
- If there are no empty cells, "Find a solution" is not restricted.
- Fixed a bug when the number of dictionaries is large.
- The zoom is now aligned with the window when a file is opened.
New in XWordGiver 4.8.0 (Nov 3, 2021)
- Supported "Line symmetry of blocks".
- Enabled the "double-frame letters" settings.
- Changed "Copy the double-frame word image" to "Copy the double-frame word".
- Abolished "Copy the double-frame word image with height".
- Abolished "Copy Image with size".
- Add "Copy the list of words" menu item.
- Improved "Web search word".
- Relaxed the limit on the number of dictionaries to 64.
- When the policy is symmetrical, "Finding solution (without adding blocks)" forces the board symmetrical.
- Fixed around Max Word Length.
- Fixed typo of skeleton.
New in XWordGiver 4.7.9 (Oct 29, 2021)
- Added "Skelton View" menu item.
- Improved the English dictionary by using the web service Grammarly.
- Improved drawing the letter of the double-frame cell.
- Fixed "Copy the double-frame word image".
- Relaxed the size limit of crosswords to 30x30 (for high end).
New in XWordGiver 4.7.8 (Oct 27, 2021)
- Dramatically improved the quality of the English dictionary.
- Improved English dialogs.
- Added more block patterns.
- Added "Reload &Dict List" menu item.
- Improved around policies.
- Fixed dictionary loading.
- Renamed the EXE file.
New in XWordGiver 4.7.7 (Aug 27, 2021)
- Strengthened English dictionary.
- Changed "Delete solution and unlock board" to "Delete clues and unlock board".