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What's New in Transana 2.10?
- Transcript loads and saves are now much faster. We see speed improvements of 95% in transcript loads. Please note that a transcript must be loaded once to be converted before speed improvements will be observable.
- A multi-user version of Transana based on the Open Source code is now available. This brings all of the improvements seen in the single-user version of Transana since version 1.24 to the users of the collaborative version.
- Transana now supports Unicode, more or less.
All of the source code for Transana has been
updated to handle Unicode, and this has led to a number of improvements in Transana, such as the ability to handle Unicode media file names. However, technical problems outside of our control limit this to some degree.
The multi-user Windows version uses UTF-8 encoding, so supports use in most languages. The single-user Windows version requires the explicit specification of an encoding due to problems with the integration of the embedded MySQL database. We've enabled encodings for Russian, Chinese and Japanese. We tried to add Korean as well, but were foiled by a bug in the wxPython Styled Text Control, which is the basis for our Transcription Window.
The Mac OS X versions of Transana are limited in their Unicode implementation due to internal problems with the wxPython Styled Text Control. Therefore, use in many non-Romance languages is limited to Windows at this time.
- Transana (on Windows) now includes a Russian translation, thanks to Viktor Ignatjev, and supports Cyrillic character encoding. The single-user version on Windows now has explicit language modes for Chinese and Japanese data, though we do not have translations of the Transana prompts in those langauges yet.
- Some of the logic for clearing Transana's windows when the user deletes a data object was revised. For example, deleting a Clip no longer clears the Transcript you are currently working from.
- Additional waveforming routines have been added to the Windows versions of Transana, allowing wave extraction for media files that contain Unicode characters. In addition, some *.avi files created on a Mac now work on Windows. We continue to work on bringing these improvements to the Mac.
- Transana now works with Storage Resource Broker version 3.3.1. Also, the way Transana connects to other users' SRB data was revised to make video sharing easier.
- Numerous bugs, most of them obscure and unreported, have been fixed.
- Clip notes would disappear when clips were moved. (They would re-appear when Transana was restarted. No data was ever lost.)
- Problems with clip sort order following the deletion of some clips in a collection were resolved.
- Problems with Episode Date Taped and with Core Data Date were resolved.
- The Series Keyword Usage Report on the Mac was fixed to properly display Search Results nodes.
- In Windows, visual feedback when dragging and dropping Search Results Collections and Clips has been improved.
- Moving clips that are keyword examples caused the link to the keyword example to be broken until Transana was restarted. This has been fixed.
- Clicking on the Visualization window no longer ignores the Auto Word-Tracking setting.
- SRB folders are now displayed properly on the Mac.
- The Refresh button now works for SRB file lists.
- Cancelling a file move between the local file system and the SRB no longer causes the source file to be improperly deleted.
- Using the File Management tool caused Help to be unable to find the Help files. This has been fixed.
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