################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.68 (May 2005) * Fixed a problem with saving realisations introduced in version 4.63. Added a \$ at end of each realisation which caused a problem on reload. Now fixed. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.67 (Feb 2005) * Changed the way files in a Document Set are loaded such that their unicode encoding is respected. * The exe distribution now contains all unicode encodings, so is suitable for those analysing greek, cyrillic, chinese, japanese, arabic, hebrew, etc. The source release no longer needed. * The exe now has a Coder icon associated with it, to allow easier identification of coder windows under windows. * Provide executable versions for Linux and Mac. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.66 (November 2004) * Added a Scheme menu item to allow drawing of networks with System names hidden. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.65 (October 2004) * Changed the way "Save Filtered Text" works so that text loaded using non-ascii encoding is saved in its appropriate character encoding. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.64 (May 2003) * Added Scatterplot window (See button in Review pane) which draws a scatter plot of the occurences of each feature as the text unfolds. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.63 (February 2003) * Layout of the choices in Coder window had various problems: - The first column was not used. Now fixed. - If the first system to display could not fit in the availbale space, then no choices were displayed. Now the coder rotates through all systems until it finds one which fits. * There was trouble re-loading schemes which included [ ] or $. FIxed. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.62 (October 2002) * There was a problem with the .exe version for windows, it failed to load schemes from .scheme files (the Source release version was ok). ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.61 (September 2002) * There was a problem with the .exe version for windows, it would fail to launch if the .exe pathname included a space. Fixed. ################################################################# ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.6 (September 2002) Many changes to improve ease of use. SAVE * For those into xml, the cd3 format now includes a header line to define the encoding. This helps Internet Explorer display .cd3 files (change the extension to xml first), especially for non-ascii encodings. (for Serge). TEXT * Moving in and out of the TEXT interface is now much quicker for large files. * RIGHT CLICK on text brings you to that segment in the Coder interface. CODING * If "Click to select" is selected (Options menu), you can choose a feature just by clicking on it. This speeds up coding quite a bit. * Changed the way that auto-advance works, now, 2 options: - "advance when complete" - means that when you complete a coding, the coder moves onto the next. - "skip complete codings" - means when the coder advances to the next coding, completed codings are skipped. An ideal mode for which working is to have both of these flags set, and also "Click to select". * You can adjust the size of the columns used for presenting the choices by selecting "Coding Column Width" and "Coding Label Width" under the Options menu. The first changes the minimum space assigned to each feature name, the second determines the maximum number of characters of the feature name to display. REVIEW * If using a Document Set, right click on a item in the Review pane to see which file the item is from. * The use of a complex filter (e.g., "modal and mental") was not working in the prior release. Now fixed. PRINT * Printing wouldnt work if the Coder was stored where the folder path included a folder with spaces in the name. Fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.5 (March 2002) A more packaged release of 4.4. * Updated the documentation slightly (section on document sets, plus minor changes). * The Windows release is as an executable. * On startup, you will be asked if you want coder documents associated with the application. You will then be able to double click coder docs to open them (.cd2, .cd3, .scheme. .dst). * Small bug fixes. BUG FIXES * SEGMENTER: if more than 7 features in a system, uses black as a default color. * SAVE: If the scheme is sved as an external file, ignored systems/features were not saved, and need to be re-ignored when loaded. ################################################################ ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.4 (February 2002) A major release, fixing many bugs, and adding some new features. The major feature is that Windows and Linux releases now are as an executable, so Tcl/Tk installation is no longer needed. ============ NEW FEATURES ============ * Clickable documents: the first time you launch the Coder executable, it will associate .cd2, .cd3, .scheme and .dst extensions with the Coder. After that, you can double-click on a Coder document to launch it (Windows only). SEGMENTER * I added a "Segment at" button, which allows you to segment at a mark of your choice. You can now "import" a file with segment marks indicated by, e.g., // and then replace these marks with Coder segment boundaries. * When segmenting into sentences, full stops now do not count as a segment mark unless followed by a space, tab or newline. This stops URLS, etc., being segmented into bits. * You can now turn color coding off. Hit the Color Code button, and select the last option "None". * I added a "Find" button, which allows you to search for particular text. It currently always starts from the top of the document. REVIEW * You can now double click on ignored items, to view them in the Coding interface. In that interface, ignored items are shown in gray. BUG FIXES * Starting the coder and not loading any document led to some problems in entering/leaving the Coding interface. Now fixed. * SCHEME: The delete key did not cause the file to be registered as edited. Fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.36 (January 2002) IMPROVEMENTS * A new version of the code to load codings files in xml format, which is twice as fast. * Improved the capture to canvas/print scheme, etc code BUG FIXES * Deleting a feature in the Coding window no longer deleted those features dependent on the feature. Fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.35 (November 2001) Bug fixes on 4.34. Thanks Maria Barrio. BUG FIXES * SEGMENTER: There was an error in the previous version, such that a segment could sometimes pick up the segment index "current" rather than its numeric value. Fixed. NEW FEATURES * The Scheme menu now has various options for Print Scheme / Save Scheme As / Capture scheme to clipboard. These may help (Windows only at present). ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.34 (November 2001) Bug fixes on 4.33. Thanks Serge Sharoff. NEW FEATURES * REVIEW: Any coding with a comment is now indicated by an asterisk just before the text. BUG FIXES * DOCUMENT SETS: A misnamed procedure (ScrolledListBoxAdd) in adding documents to a set caused a bug. Fixed. * SAVE: Comments in cd3 format are now saved without internal returns, so that the file is xml compliant. * SAVE: If one issues a save within the Codings interface, changes to the comment since entering this coding were not saved. Fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.33 (November 2001) Minor bug fix on version 4.31. Thanks to Cassily Charles, Simon Eason and Serge Sharoff for bug reports. CODING * Various people complained that sometimes the text to be coded is not visible in the Text box of the Coding window. I have now added scrollbars to allow you to see all within the text box. Also, the text box automatically scrolls to put the current segment within view. * In the coding window: When systems or features had long names, and there were more systems entered than could fit on one page, the display might compress some systems into a small space. I have made it so long feature names are now truncated for display purposes. (thanks Cassily) * In the coding window: Cassily pointed out that when there were more systems than could fit on the display, one of the extra systems was actually there but invisible, and the default feature was coded when the "Select" button was clicked. This has now been fixed (Again, thanks Cassily). * Simon complained that it was difficult to distinguish selected from nonselected features in the Coding window. I changed the red background to white (in the radiobutton) to make this easier. FILES * Previosuly, if there was a bug while saving the codings file, the original file was lost. The program now saves the coding file to a temp file, and if successful, moves this file to the correct location. This should avoid the problem (Thanks Simon). ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.31 (November 2001) ============= NEW FEATURES ============= DOCUMENT SETS It is common that you want to code a number of distinct texts, and then do statistics over the set of them. With Coder 4.2 this is now possible. Each document should be coded with the same scheme. MORE... Use of document features in document sets. DOCUMENT FEATURES A document feature is a feature which applies to the text as a whole rather than to the individual codings. For example, I have features such as "fpn" (front page news) vs. "editorial". Other such document choices might include monologue vs. dialogue, english vs. spanish, etc. You can include systems in your scheme for these document classifications. You can then click on one of the features, and select the option: "Set as Document Feature", and that feature will be assigned to every coding in the file. In the graph, such features are indicated in bold, and the co-features in the system are ignored (in gray). DEFAULT FOLDERS * You can now choose which folders to start looking for files, including analyses, texts or schemes. Use the "Default Folders" option under the Options menu. SCHEME WINDOW * ZOOM: The zoom mechanism has been improved, so you can view graphs at sizes from 10% to 200%, and print or save at these scales. Click on the zoom button on the left of the Scheme window. * SIMPLIFIED GRAPH: An alternative scheme display algorithm, which draws a nicer graph, but places any systems with complex entry conditions at the bottom of the display. Choose "Normal" or "Simplified" from the top left of the Scheme window. * IGNORE FEATURE: You can now ignore a feature in a system by clicking on the feature and selecting "ignore feature". This is valuable in 2 ways: 1) You will no longer be offered this feature during coding. 2) If there is only one feature unignored in a system, that feature is selected by default (useful if you have a more general scheme, but the text you are coding has no instances with that feature). 3) You can ignore a feature before doing a statistical study to leave that feature out of the study, e.g., to compare two terms in a system, leaving aside the third. =============== BUG FIXES =============== STATS * Could not select a .cd3 format file in the "Compare Files" option. Now both .cd2 and .cd3 files can be compared. CODING * In Auto-Advance mode, you now skip over completed codings when finishing one coding. * The display now handles better long feature or system names, and more systems than can fit on a page. COLOR CODING * Previously, color coding on a system with more than 5 features caused a break. Now fixed. * A warning appears if you have an incorrect version of Tcl/Tk for color coding in review (requires Tcl/Tk 8.3 or above). PREFERENCES * Preferences recorded under the Options menu are now preserved between sessions. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.21 (August 2001) Small bug fixes on version 4.2, Thanks to Susana Murcia for corrections. TCL/TK 8.0/8.1 COMPATABILITY * Removed some code which made the Coder incompatable with Tcl/Tk 8.0 and 8.1. Note that Review ColorCoding is disabled for these versions. STATS * When saving a comparative statistics report, in "System by System" mode, the interpretation would give all features as significantly different, even when not. This did not affect the on-screen results, or saved reports in table format. Fixed. GENERAL * The control-z key iconises the Coder. This is fine under Unix, Linux and Windows, but on the Mac, no icon is created, so the Coder window cannot be re-opened. This key combo is now disabled under Macintosh. SAVE/LOAD * Previously, errors during loading and saving Codings resulted in a message to contact the author. Now, more details about what caused the crash are given, and can be sent to the author. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.2 (July 2001) Bug fix for first release of 4.0 (4.0f). Also some new features added. Thanks to Simon Eason, Serge Sharoff, Bill Greaves and Mark Bell for corrections. NEW FEATURES ============ * COLOR CODING: - Added the ability to use Color Coding in the Text and Review interfaces. This allows you to show, for instance, all actives in green and all passives in red. * NEW FILE FORMAT: You can now save and load in .cd3 format, which is fully xml compliant. If you change the file extension of these files to .xml, you can open the file in xml applications, such as Internet Explorer or XML Spy. * REVIEW - Due to a bug, the up/down keys have never functioned in the Review window. They do now. - You can now press the "i" key to Ignore/unignore the current item. * MENUS - You can now use control keys to load/save codings, import text, or open Help. See the menus for the exact key combo on your system. (Older versions showed keys here (Meta-f, etc.), but these didn't work). BUG FIXES ========= * LOAD: Information on ignored codings was lost when opening a .cd2 file in version 4.0. This is now fixed. * There was a bug (an error message) when importing plain text when currently in the Coding interface. Now fixed. * Review with a complex filter showed codings in the wrong order, now fixed. * Found a bug related to saving a scheme separate from the codings. Fixed. * There were problems saving files which included a space in the filename. Fixed. * Some inconsistencies with Wish 8.0 had crept in (including problems loading analyses). This "should" now work ok. Actually, no. Try version 8.2 or higher. * Version 4.0 lost the ability to load text in character encodings (Cyrillic etc.). This is now fixed. Thanks to Serge Sharoff. * IMPORT TEXT: it was not possible to import a scheme from a .cd3 file. This is now possible. * SEGMENT: "Find" and "Find Again" buttons were shown, but are not yet implemented. These are now hidden until I get the time... * Realisation statements, which can now be added to features, were not saved into the codings file. Fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.1 (July 2001) * Minor bug fix, never officially released. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 4.0 (June 2001) I decided to make a new version due to the number of changes in this version. =============== GENERAL CHANGES =============== - FILE REORGANISATION * For this version, I have revised the code to allow sharing of code amongst all the tools I distribute (Coder, RSTTool, Grapher, Parser). - APPEARANCE * I put in a new color scheme to make using the Coder more pleasant on the eyes. Also, Buttons are larger. The Quit button has been taken off the main window because users might hit it accidently when changing between interfaces. It is now under the "Codings" menu. - FILE LOCATIONS DISPLAYED * The current coding file and scheme file is now shown at the top-right of the display. If the scheme is embedded in the codings file, the field for the file is blank. - ROLLOVER MESSAGES * You can now move the mouse cursor over buttons, screen widgets, etc. to get a description of what it does. The message appears in the top-right of the display. - SCROLLWHEEL SUPPORT * If your mouse has a ScrollWheel, you can use it to scroll up and down in any context that there is a scrollbar. * Use the scrollwheel with the right mousebutton down to scroll left/right in most contexts. ======= MENUS ======= * SCHEME: Added a new "Scheme" menu for file operations on Schemes. * OPTIONS: Added an option under the Options menu for the user to change some parameters of the graph drawer. These options are saved in the .preferences file and reloaded on next launch. * HELP: You can now access the HTML version of the manual from the Coder's "Help" menu, at least under Windows and Unix/Linux. This also depends on the Coder being able to find your browser. A WinHelp version of the manual is also available for Windows users. (Note: Under some versions of Windows, the file may fail to open). ============= SCHEME WINDOW ============= - APPEARANCE * Scheme Menu: I moved all the Load/Save scheme options (including Save PS and Save PDX) into a new "Scheme" menu in the main menubar. * New Layout: I added a new algorithm for graph layout, which allows a more compact presentation of systems. When in the Scheme interface, the "Version" button changes between the old and new version. * StartFeature: If you are have a complex system network, it may be difficult to see it all. Now you can select to start the graph from any feature (it normally starts at the leftmost feature). Select a feature from the "StartFeature" widget at the bottom of the Scheme menu. Normally, only those at the leftmost of the network are shown. You can select the "Other" option to see a list of all defined features. * Graph Depth: you can vary how much detail is shown in the graph by using the "Graph Depth" item. If "all" is selected, then all systems under the selected start feature are shown. If a number is selected, this details how many systems from the start feature rightwards will be displayed. - EDITING NETWORKS * Moving Features: You can now move a feature by renaming a feature to the existing feature, but only if the feature being renamed has no dependent systems, and is not the root of the network. Note you can alsomove a feature by selecting "Add feature" for a system and specifying an existing feature. - SAVE PDX * I revised the savepdx algorithm. Now i) colors are saved ii) some lines were misplaced, but are better displayed now. NOTE: Version 3.64 of Mayura Draw doesn't allow export of diagrams after 30 days use. However, versions 3.5 - 3.61 allow export after any amount of time. Version 3.61 is available from: http://www.wagsoft.com/TCL/MDraw.zip . ============= CODING WINDOW ============= * I revised the appearance of this window to make it clearer. The selected features are now displayed at the right. ============= REVIEW WINDOW ============= - REVIEW/STATS FILTER * I have chnaged the way that you write filter expressions (to select subsets of the corpus in the Review window, or to limit the codings used in a statistical study. Previously, an obscure notation like: (and material (not mental)) was used (called: 'reverse polish notation'). In this version, the notation has changed to the more user friendly boolian expression format, e.g., 'material and not mental'. This format is the same as that used in many Web search engines (e.g., AltaVista). See the manual for a note on how to write complex boolean expressions. Or press the Help button next to the Filter Space. - SAVE FILTERED * You can now save the codings presented in the Review window after applying a filter. You can save them as a codings file (thus a subset of the whole set), or as plain text. ============ STATS WINDOW ============ * FILTER: as for the Review window, the Stats Filter is now in terms of the simplified format "a and b". Press the "Help" button next to the filter space for more details. ========= BUG FIXES ========= * Previously, when clicking on a feature near the bottom of the screen, the popup menu of options would appear and automatically select one item (rather than waiting for the user to select one). This bug has been fixed. * Some popup windows previously could not be moved, which was painful if your choice in the popup depends on something in the main window. This is fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 3.7 (February 2001) A bug fix release. - LOAD * Fixed some problems in loading old coding format (.codings from the Mac-only Coder). - SCHEME * Revised the way in which "Change Entry Condition" works, to avoid errors due to users mis-typing. Now user selects features from popups. This is a lot more intuitive now. - STATISTICS * Changed radically lots of things. Mainly, the changes were to allow saving of results as html files, which can be imported into Microsoft Word, including tables. Use the "Save Results" button, and select "HTML" file type. * Results from "Compare Files" can now be viewed system by system. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 3.6 (February 2001) IMPORT TEXT * When importing a text file, you can now "Copy Scheme" from an existing codings file. SCHEME * Cleaned up the graphing routine to make the graphs saved in pdx format to come out cleaner. * There was a bug which meant all of the scheme was not always accessable in the window. Fixed. STATS * Fixed a bug which caused an error when doing comparative statistics with ignored systems. * Fixed another bug which meant that the T-stats were incorrect in the "Comparative Stats" when displayed system by system. * For non-anglo Windows systems, the date was shown strangely in saved results files. Fixed this. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 3.5 (August 2000) Thanks to Brad Belbas and Susana Murcia Bielsa for bug reports. NEW FEATURES ============ * Ability to statistically compare the current file to another file. * If comparing two sets within a file, you can see the results system by system, with some interpretation done (at present only for binary systems). * Ability to save the text back to a file after editing (not yet with segmentation marks). See the "Save text" option under the Codings menu. BUG FIXES ========= MACINTOSH * A bug related to the About menu stopped the program from working on a Macintosh. Fixed. (Thanks to Brad Belbas for reporting it). * Previously, there was no way to load or save analyses from/to a different drive. This is now fixed, except note, files cannot be loaded from the desktop, or folders on the desktop, except by opening the "Desktop Folder" on each drive (e.g., "Hard Disk:Desktop Folder". SEGMENT * Multiple segment marks immediately adjacent to each other would be treated as a single mark. Now treated individually. SCHEME * A bug which meant it wasnt possible to scroll to the end of the scheme display has been fixed. * When moving a feature from one system to another, sometimes the feature list got a bit messed up. Hopefully fixed. CODING * The Selection History (list of selected features) in the Coder window is now sorted in order of the appearance in the network, for easier reading. * In Coding interface, the "Next Incomplete" button will now take you to the final coding if all are complete. REVIEW * A bug in unignoring codings in the review window would cause an error message if the coding text had quotation marks in it. Fixed. STATS * The Statistics interface has been substantially revised, improving the diplay. A vertical scrollbar is now provided, and the column headings scroll with the text. * Fixed some bugs involved in "Save Results". ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 3.4.1 (July 8 2000) This release provides some minor fixes. NEW FEATURES ============ * A system added under the feature "x" is now automatically labelled "x-type". * Resizing the window while coding will reorganise the systems to fit the display space. * previously, systems too large to fit a single column caused the coder to display nothing. Now, these are folded over two colums. (If more required, you will still have problems). * If you leave the Coding mode before pressing "Select", any choices made are now remembered and reinstated on return. BUG FIXES ========= * version 3.4.1 did not save curly brackets properly in pdx files, and with slight misalignment of lines. Fixed. ############################################################## ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 3.4 (July 2000) This release provides some extensions and takes care of a few minor bugs (reports by Eveline Chan, Susana Murcia Bielsa and Karin Sode Wood). NEW FEATURES ============ * PDX files are now saved with curly brackets drawn. * A new analysis has been added to the Stats interface: "Cell Analysis", allowing the data to be grouped into clusters which have the same features. * You can now use the "Change Entry Condition" option to introduce complex entry conditions (see the manual). * You can mark systems as "ignored", and you will not be prompted to code these. Systems are ignored using the system network. Ignored systems are displayed in gray. * Codings can be exported "tab delimited" for importing in spreadsheets or statistical packages. * When returning to the "Text" interface, the current coding will be displayed at the top of the screen. * The network diagram can now be exported as a .pdx file, which can be loaded by the MDraw program on Windows, and thus exported in a form loadable into MS Word. See the manual for details. * A WinHelp version of the manual is provided (for Windows use only). * A Help menu was added, with access to various forms of information. On the Mac, this is under the Apple Balloon Help menu. Under Unix, it is displayed on the far right of the menu bar. BUG FIXES ========= * In some states, it was impossible to quit without saving a modified scheme file. Fixed. * In the Statistics interface, changes to the scheme were not reflected in the "Systems" list, so that new systems couldn't be selected. Fixed. * In the statistics interface, ignored codings were not ignored if no filter was specified. * "Save Results" in the Stats interface would crash for Tcl/Tk versions older than 8.2. Fixed. ##################################################### ## Release Notes for Systemic Coder Version 3.3 (April 2000) This release takes care of a few minor bugs (reports by Jim Benson, Constance Ling, and Eveline Chan. BUG FIXES ========== * Scheme Editor now draws curly brackets to group simultaneous systems. * Fixed minor problems segmenting sentences terminated by multiple "!!", "??" or ".." * The title-bar of the coder window now displays the name of the codings file being edited. * Fixed a bug related to saving files introduced in version 3.2 (showed "Error: invalid command name "1" "). * When saving codings with a master scheme, the scheme was always automically saved over the old file. Now, the program only saves if the scheme is changed. In addition, the program will ask if you wish to overwrite the scheme, or save elsewhere. * After loading a Codings file, sometimes the window was blank until you changed to another interface. Fixed.