Günther's Freeware: Vocabulary Cards for Palm OS
News
01/15/10:
- Finally a new beta of Vocabulary Cards is out. The last year I was quite busy and could not spend much time in improving V-C, but during holiday season I did some work on it. Not really fancy features - more focused on stability. Now it runs also on ALP/maemo emulators. Also a german version is out. If there are no bugs found this version will be the next stable. So please check out this beta and send me any feedback you have. Thanks a lot.
- As always: For a complete listing of all changes see Changelog.
01/13/09:
- Finally a new beta of Vocabulary Cards is out. The last year I was quite busy and could not spend much time in improving V-C, but during holiday season I did some work on it. It was a very successful session and I don't want to keep the result away from you. This version runs as stable as the 1.0.2, but has a lot more functionality. I have already made changes to support high resolution and the next step will be the support for foreign fonts. But before I want to keep all features stable and well tested. So please check out this beta and send me any feedback you have. Thanks a lot.
- Fixed some bugs and added the tagging functionality of cards for learn and drill lessons. Usage should be self-explanatory.
- Furthermore the user can now switch the direction of the learn lesson: starting from tray 1 is now also possible.
- As always: For a complete listing of all changes see Changelog.
10/31/07:
- Everyone does it - so do I ;-): Here is the Halloween Edition of Vocabulary Cards beta. Fixed two bugs and added an extented option for drilling of already learned cards.
- For a complete listing of all changes see Changelog.
10/28/07:
- My first beta after stable version 1.0 is out! It is meant for the bold one. It runs without resetting my Treo 650 for some weeks now - so consider it as quiet stable. There is still one pointer error occuring in emulator left, but I was not able to nail it down up to now and it did not show up on my device. As always: use it at your own risk. Backup your data before updating!
This new beta has some new features:
- Card tags: like the palm categories, but I used my own implementation to overcome the limitation of a maximum of 15. You can define now up to 50 card tags and assign them to a card. Thus it is easy to learn only cards from a chapter or a special topic. Currently the tags are only used during drilling. Learning with tags will follow soon. You can define the card tags in the card box dialog using the menu item "Edit card tags". On the mainscreen you will find a selector for the card tags. Card tags also work already in the search dialog (and of course for "new/edit card"). Sorting the card tags in the list alphabetically will also follow. Just try it and give me your feedback.
- Random display of the card side: now you can display the card side randomly. Currently this feature only has an effect on the display, i.e the learning direction is not altered and thus the results change only the statistics of the direction defined in the preferences. Therefore the second option "Don't switch direction" is currently only usable when set to checked.
- Setting a different number of repetitions for drilling of cards which have already been drilled and were now moved back to drill due a wrong result in tray 1. Normally these cards are already known to the user and don't need the whole number of repetitions in drilling. Now you can set the number e.g. to 2 for these cards. Thanks to Roland for sending this feature request.
- Ported a small found during beta development back to stable: 1.0.2-stable is also available for download.
- For a complete listing of all changes see Changelog.
09/28/07:
- And the award goes to Martin. He found a small bug which can lead to a loop in the Import from Tool dialog.
- Also one small bug concerning the handling of incomplete cards in drill lessons was found by Ulrich.
Thank you very much for your bug reports!
- Taking the chance to modify the code of the stable version I also arranged V-C for the new "Card Tag" feature which will come shortly in a 1.1.x beta version.
- Please update to version number 1.0.1!
- For a complete listing of all changes see Changelog.
08/27/07:
- It really happened: After seven years of development Vocabulary Cards has finally reached version number 1.0! It is available for download in english, german, french and spanish. There are so many new features since version 0.6.7. Please see Changelog for a complete listing of all changes. Let's wait until someone finds an error so we can make a 1.0.1 ;-).
08/09/07:
- First release candidate 1.0-rc1 for version 1.0 for download available! Minor GUI cosmetics and spanish translation added. Please see Changelog for all changes. Please download your prefered localized version and report your experience. Thanks a lot! Guenther
06/11/07:
- New beta version 0.8.9 for download available! German and french translation and some smaller improvements (e.g. displaying card box name when tapping upper right area of screen). Please see Changelog for all changes.
04/18/07:
- New beta version 0.8.7 for download available! Adds 5-way navigation functionality for Tungsten T3 and Zire 72 and fixes a small bug which slows the drill lesson. Please see Changelog for all changes.
04/13/07:
- New beta version 0.8.6 for download available! Fixes a bug in the memo import routine. Please see Changelog for all changes.
04/10/07:
- New beta version
0.8.5 for download available! Minor bug fixes. Please see Changelog for all changes.
03/31/07:
- New beta version
0.8.4 for download available! The very intense code review paid off: this is the most stable version I've ever had. Even after 10 million events I've got not reset or error. Did also some speed improvements - now it is almost as fast as before enabling debug mode. Please see Changelog for all changes.
03/03/07:
- Added a RSS feed for news about new releases and beta versions. Now you can watch the V-C news in your favorite RSS aggregator. I hope it runs smoothly. any feedback on this new feature is appreciated. Thanks.
02/20/07:
- New beta version
0.8.3 for download available! Did a lot of bug fixing and code review. Many speed improvements. Please see Changelog for all changes.
02/11/07:
- New beta version
0.8.2 for download available! Did a lot of bug fixing and code review. Uses a new debugging system. Please see Changelog for all changes.
01/24/07:
- New beta version
0.8.0 for download available! Did a lot of bug fixing and code review. Runs a lot more stable than 0.7.9. Please see Changelog for all changes.
01/07/07:
- New beta version
0.7.9 for download available! Fixes a lot of bugs from 0.6.7 to 0.7.7. Please see Changelog for new features.
12/26/06:
- Merry Christmas: new beta version
0.7.7 for download available! Please see Changelog for new features.
12/14/06:
- New beta version
0.7.5 for download available! This version fixes the "wrong drill card selection" bug which was introduced in 0.6.8.
12/07/06:
- New beta version
0.7.4 for download available! This version has an improved find dialog and you can create incomplete cards. Have a look at the Changelog for a complete list of new features.
08/28/06:
- New version of the
Excel converter tool available. This update fixes some bugs when running under older Excel version like Excel97. You can also import your dictionary, edit it and write it back to your PDA. Although this feature is quiet new and is not as convenient as I wanted it to be, it runs smooth and is (I hope) bugfree.
04/23/06:
- Spring has arrived! So I will stop now (like every year) developing V-C to have more time for my other hobbies (travelling and running) and of course for my girlfriend. I will fix serious bugs as soon as possible, but new features are collected until winter. See you in a few months and enjoy Vocabulary Cards in the meantime :-).
04/23/06:
- New beta version
0.6.9 for download available! This version has smaller bug fixes and an improved "Reset cards" dialog. Now you can reset your cards also to "not yet learned". This version is an interim release available in english only for users who missed this feature for a long time.
03/11/06:
- New stable release
0.6.7 for download available! This version has a lot of new features like hint support, general flash card mode or profiles. Try it - you will be impressed.
02/25/06:
- Third
release candidate of next stable version with many new features for download available! Please test and give feedback!
02/18/06:
- Second
release candidate of next stable version with many new features for download available! Please test and give feedback!
02/15/06:
- First
release candidate of next stable version with many new features for download available! Please test and give feedback!
02/04/06:
- New beta version
0.6.3 of Vocabulary Cards with many new features for download available!
01/25/06:
- New beta version
0.6.2 of Vocabulary Cards with many new features for download available!
12/17/05:
- New stable release
0.5.6 for download available!
12/12/05:
- New beta version
0.5.5 for download available!
12/05/05:
- New beta version
0.5.4 for download available!
11/23/05:
- New stable release
0.5.2 for download available! There are so many changes - please consult the changelog for details.
10/09/05:
- Finally the projects homepage got a new design which is now clearly structured and more informative.
