TheW32 - Recent updates
2007 June
Export to XML now includes terms beginning with non-alphabetic characters.
2007 February
A function has been added to allow searching the term list by substring.
A couple of holes have been plugged
that allowed adding of terms containing non-ASCII characters,
leading to inconsistent results.
2006 November
The package has been recompiled
under Borland's free (100-year license) Delphi 2006 for Win32 Explorer.
In structure transformation,
long virtual node names are now truncated at 240 characters,
allowing the program to proceed without throwing a range-check error.
2006 May
A minor bug that might cause unused space not to be reclaimed
in a file without a free list
(such as a file that has recently been packed)
has been eliminated.
Loading of structure transformation rules has been fixed
so that disabled "Delete link 3" rules
are no longer ignored
and no longer produce bad rules at the end of the list.
A function has been added to take a list of terms
from the Windows clipboard
and substitute a list of links
from those terms to other terms and to notes.
2006 April
The "Standardize" function has been fixed
so that it works correctly
even when the passage to be standardized does not begin with a word.
2005 March
The introduction has been revised
and some illustrations added.
2004 November
The "Suggest terms" function
now ignores any phrase starting with a stopword.
2004 April
The main window can now be set to display on top of normal windows.
Some interface problems with use of automatic keyword entries
in navigation and reporting have been addressed,
without affecting the underlying file format.
A count of keyword entries is now provided in the summary.
2004 March
The pathname of the thesaurus
now appears in the caption bar.
When a read-only thesaurus is open,
only those items in the Edit menu
that actually involve modifying the thesaurus
are now grayed.
2004 February
The user can now change standardization
so that final S is not separated from words or phrases
for purposes of matching.
A bug in the standardization routine
by which Gollumisms like "bookss"
sometimes caused non-fatal access errors
has been corrected.
2003 December
If the RTF preview window is kept open,
the preview is now automatically updated
as changes are made.
When an existing note is edited,
the old text is now no longer converted to upper case.
2003 June
When opening a *.txt file
or importing terms and links,
TheW32 now automatically converts all terms to upper case,
thus avoiding the possibility in previous versions
of importing terms containing lower case characters
and having their links inaccessible in the main window.
When opening a *.txt file,
TheW32 now rejects records that appear out of order,
thus avoiding thesaurus corruption
that would otherwise occur.
The RTF preview option now always shows the currently selected report,
not the summary.
2002 December
The first letter of the mnemonic
can now be used as a shortcut to set the current linktype.
2002 November
In report formats,
linktypes to forms to be substituted for the actual terms
may now be specified for both RTF and HTML.
This allows for displays of specific terms
in various mixtures of upper and lower case,
punctuation,
and special characters.
(A bug in this update
that caused terms to be displayed instead of notes
in HTML output
was corrected on November 29.)
2002 July
A bug introduced in the latest version of the packing routine
(due to an out-of-place copy of a statement in the source code)
has been eliminated.
2002 June
A read-only thesaurus may now be opened.
Some options have been added to the graphic displays:
the user may now temporarily adjust positions of individual nodes,
regenerate the display for a different node
without returning to the main window,
adjust the display automatically to show full texts of all nodes,
and set default box sizes.
2002 May
A function to allow quick loading of a thesaurus from a text file
is now available.
A problem with compaction options for text in graphic displays,
introduced because of a misleading compiler warning,
has now been eliminated.
The spell checker now ignores case throughout and
the "Cancel" button now cancels
the entire rest of the spell check.
In HTML file generation,
the user may now create a file listing named anchors
or use such a file to include links in the HTML code;
this allows links between instances of the same term
in two different displays of the same thesaurus.
More standard margins are now used in printouts,
and the user can change margin sizes.
The report format
may now be selected directly from the RTF preview window.
Terms may now be added directly from the main window.
Shortcuts are provided for setting the current linktype
without leaving the term edit control.
2002 April
A workaround has now been included
to correct a problem
(caused by inconsistent behavior
of the Delphi ExtractFileDir function)
with writing HTML files to root directories.
2002 February
A function to export the thesaurus as a JavaScript file
is now available.
A sample HTML page is included.
Saving to the same pathname as the current thesaurus
is now blocked
and a warning is displayed.
2002 January
The application has been ported to Delphi Professional version 6.
One adverse effect of this is that the application file is now much larger.
On the other hand,
the downloadable file is smaller,
because it has also been necessary to drop the HTML viewer,
which is no longer supported by Delphi.
In place of the HTML viewer,
a function has been added to preview using the default browser.
2001 December
TheW32 now responds to the pathname of a thesaurus
given as a runtime parameter,
opening the thesaurus automatically on startup.
A function has been added
to allow export of a thesaurus to XML (VOCML) format.
2001 November
A function has been added to transform a free text on the Windows clipboard
into a list of preferred terms from the thesaurus.
A bug in the "Standardize" function
that could produce nonfatal error messages
has been fixed.
A security hole by which a user could corrupt the entire thesaurus
by adding an empty term from the clipboard
has now been eliminated.
2001 April
A statistical summary can now be displayed.
Last updated February 6, 2008, by
Tim Craven