The release history of OpenCards.
- Added openfx package dependency for Ubuntu/Debian
- Markdown Integration Improvements
- Preserve aspect ratio when rendering slides
- Support for markdown files as flashcard sets (section titles are questions, section content are answers)
- Improved rendering of Cards (using POI v3.14)
- Added Dutch translation (thanks to Rutger Scholtens)
- Improved german translation
- Fixed links to help
- Improved Rendering of Cards (using POI v3.12)
- Added Simplified Chinese translation (thanks to Lee Darren)
- Added Japanese translation (thanks to Eberhard Herzog)
- More smooth (=antialiased) slide rendering on windows and linux
- Fixed issue 24: Incorrect rendering of text-shape bounding boxes
- Stability improvements based on community feedback
- fixed inocorrect email-addrees for automatic bug-reporting
- Improved synchronization with ppt-files
- Added drag-and-drop support for ppt-files into OpenCards
- Improved integration of last-minute learning
- Better visualization of new cards in schedule preview
- Open current slide during learning in PowerPoint by double-clicking it
- update notfication when version of OpenCards are released (issue 19)
- example card sets in category model to flatten learning curve for new OC-users (issue 22)
- CSV-Importer (issue 1)
- fixed many rough edges in the macos integration
- proper windwos executable
- finished porting of all major v1.5 functionality
- Changed from OpenOffice plugin to standalone application that uses PowerPoint files as major file-format
- Most other features (categorization, scheduler, ltm-learning) have been ported
- Temporarily removed features: Reversed cards-sides
OpenCards4Impress release history (no longer developed or maintained)
- Fixed problem when removing last card-set from category
- increased minimal system requirements to java6 and OpenOffice3.0
- tag arbitrary shapes as questions
- automatic parsing of directory structures into a the category model sub-tree
- category deletions now require additional user confirmation
- Streamlined problem reporting by auto-composing report email
- sortable columns in LTM-Manager
- dramatically improved stability on slow systems (and especially with OpenOffice 3.1, which is much less snappy compared to 3.0)
- persistent divider-locations for LTM-Manager
- new: notification about exceeded maximal new items limitation
- improved: replaced logging monitor with log-file
- fixed: OC crashes on missing question mode
- fixed: OC crashes when XStyle-name is null
- improved: introduced short delay before hiding slide-pane to avoid occasional crashes
- fixed: crash when remove title when there's no title
- fixed: slide sorter hiding does not work in OpenOffice3
- improved: OpenOffice3 integration
- dev: updated build.xml to OpenOffice3-package structure
- fixed: Keyboard shortcuts are broken when recently found items are being processed
- fixed: Drag'n'Drop seems to be broken quite often
- removed: Untranslated dialog that appeared after the end of each last-minute learning session
- More verbose error messages in crash dialog
- Adaptive learning dialog layout depending on height/width-ratio
- Custom field delimiters when importing flashcards (feature request 2054529)
- Bulgarian translation (thx to Stefan Stefanov)
- fixed: Stability problems when switching from one scheduled card-file to the next one
- fixed: session skipping is broken
- fixed: OC crashes after preferences have been reseted (bug 2037976 )
- fixed: Preferences dialog could be more compact (bug 2039120 )
- fixed: OC crashes if last slide is deleted during learning presentation when this slide is shown in question mode
- Automatic guessing of character encoding when importing flashcards from csv-files
- Started OpenCards manual. It's implemented in docbook to allow an easy compilation into pdf, html, java help or ooo-help
- New learning mode: When CTRL is hold while a new learning session is started in the LTM-Manager OC will include all new items. This overrides the default behavior which just incrementally includes new items into the learning process. Refer to the manual for details.
- CTRL+C opens configuration dialog for the current slide when being in a learning session
- fixed: Refreshing mode included new (unseen) items
- fixed: new item counts in table do not match panel-counts
- fixed: Warning on Impress shutdown is shown more than once
- fixed: oc crashes on double-ESC (bug 1997180)
- Added (optional and by default inactive) logging monitor that should ease to issue-reporting. This monitor can be activated under Preferences->Advanced
- improved in-session file-transitions (which should also increase stability)
- fixed: OC hangs forever occassionally when startingW/terminating learning sessions
- Automatic hiding of the slide sorter pane during learning (feature request 1890815)
- Added Italian translation (thx to Silvio Gavagnin)
- Added Greek translation (thx to Akis Vassiliadis)
- Added Portuguese translation (thx to Ricardo Umpierre)
- fixed: OC-toolbar-icons don't look too nice (bug 1915621)
- cosmetics: Toolbar is now named "OpenCards" now and not anymore "Add-on 1"
- GZip compression of serialized flascard-data
- smaller files (~25%)
- 100x faster (no joke!): much faster loading of presentations containing open cards-data (for 600 cards Spanish.odp loadtime was
reduced from 85.6s to 0.35s, ltm-manager startup for 50 card-files down from 15s to ~1s)
- As a drawback OC is not backwards compatible to prior releases
- New much more smooth dialog-handling while loading next flashcard-file in ltm-mode
- OC User-ID which allows to detect imported card-sets automatically (feature request 1944488)
- OC proposes to learn items detected during learning immediately (feature request 1939956)
- Added French translation (thx to Xavier Domont)
- Added Spanish translation (thx to Fernando Ossandón)
- Simplified and improved many many UI-strings
- New preferences implementation for Linux when Java6 is used ( hacked around http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6519088 )
- Simplified UI: Removed 'Flatten' from category-context menu because nobody understood its meaning
- improved: Preferences-dialog chooses an optimal size automatically
- improved: open import-FAQ in browser if import has failed completely
- fixed: import-file not closed after import
- fixed: the file-chooser on "add card-file" does not appear
- New logo for OpenCards (bug 1791943)
- Much better long-term scheduling algorithm (bug 1912235)
- Learning success is now visualized instead of 'number of repetitions' (which was buggy anyway) in ltm-manager
- Forced refreshment of flashcards (feature requests 1907526, 1880284)
- Current slide becomes recentered in Impress if 'Home' is pressed or the learn-progress-bar is double-clicked (feature request 1922573)
- improved: Up-key can be used now to skip the current item (feature request 1908938)
- improved: F1 now opens the help in the browser
- improved: made tooltips of feedback-buttons more newbie-friendly
- improved: Don't attempt to change the L&F on Linux (which should fix the missing OC-menu in Ubuntu)
- fixed: Import of UTF-16 files fails (bug 1910386)
- fixed: OpenCards crashes if all but one item in the last-minute learning were skipped
- fixed: scheduling broken after midnight (bug 1908379)
- fixed: Auto-Discovery dead-lock
- improved: AboutDialog updated to 2008
- Integrated OpenCards into context-menu of Impress slide-pane which allows to configure single flashcards (feature request 1895484)
- Monitoring of flashcard-directories: Auto-discovery of uncategorized flashcard-files (feature request 1896374)
- Customizable flashcard-retention, which is used to scale the spacing intervals between scheduled reviews
- Customizable locations for the Category-tree-file (feature request 1888114)
- improved: New color-scheme for last-minute cardbox-view which highights the current flashcard (bug 1876302)
- improved: Session-persistent random-reverse-states for ltm-learning (bug 1875864)
- improved: Cardfile settings dialog is now fully localized
- fixed: There is a probability >0 that flashcards within a file obtain the same OpenCardsID
- fixed: OpenCards is blocked after LastMinute-Learning was started once using the file-context menu in the LTM-Manager
- improved: use more fields of OOo extension framework (publisher, release notes, display name)
- fixed: links to help-page and contribution-page are broken
- fixed: cards which were scheduled for tomorrow yesterday are scheduled for tomorrow also today
- urgent bugfixes
- Added icons to context-menu of file-view in the Long-Term memorization manager
- Added link to the OpenCards-flashcard repository to the OpenCards-menu
- LTM-Manager becomes invisible if a card-file is double-clicked
- The preferences-dialog is resizeable now (which should fix the dialog-layout for ubuntu)
- fixed: Auto-select user-interface language
- fixed: negative scheduling-dates in tooltip
- fixed: two-keys-feedback
- fixed: the result of a forced syun-operation is not serialized
- Insession Ultra-Short-Time Rescheduling
- Statistics-panel are updated on selection-changes in the file-table
- New menu-structure
- Added possibility to remove all OpenCards-related data from the current presentation
- Support for three sided cards (needs to be enabled in Preferences->Advanced)
- New selectable synchronization-policies
- explicit sync (with progress-bar) before starting LongTermMemorization-learning (forced sync)
- silently synchronize card-files which need to be opened anyway because they contain items scheduled for today (lazy sync)
- Optional (Preferences->"Show Feedback-Tooltips") tooltips for LTM-feedback-buttons which predict the the next scheduled date
- Improved: LongTermMemorization-Manager instance is reused for all open OpenOffice-frames
- Overhauled settings dialog
- New tab for general settings
- Improved layout of the dialog; moved some preferences to more appropriate categories
- Configurable behavior when skipping flashcards during learning (defer in session, defer to next session, defer to tomorrow)
- Changed learn-dialog to allow skipping of cards also if the complete card is shown (the "cancel learning" button was dropped, to cancel a learning session the system-close button (cross) needs to be used)
- Invitation dialog for translators
- Added warning/explanation dialog when no entitled slides are contained in the current presentation
- Flashcard-printing manager which temporarily duplicates all slides to contain on the duplicated slide the question/keyword of each slide only
- fixed: scheduling dates in LTM-Manager are not updated correctly
- fixed: context-menu for categories and cardfiles does not appear under linux
- fixed: category-tree serialization failed under linux and winXP
- First beta of OpenCards :-)
- Auto-synchronization on changes, insertions and deletions of slides while being in learning mode
- Streamlined keyboard control interface by using arrow-keys only
- Common drag'n'drop operations for LTM-Manager
- Optional automatic recursing into child-categories in LTM-Manager
- Schedule files based on mean "learn-urgency"
- Major performance improvements
- Fixed: negative scheduling times in LTM-Manager
- Fixed: invalid configuration of windows in dual-screen setups
- Fixed: STM* and LTM-learning can be started within a single Impress-frame in parallel
- Various minor stability and usability improvements
- urgent bugfixes
- fixed: start learning in empty ltm-manager failed
- fixed: wrong intial box in leitner system
- Import of flashcards from csv-files
- Simplified long-term learning manager
- Improved overall stability, by taking more care of OpenOffice-events
- Improved long-term learning algorithm
- Automatic detection of changes in card-sets
- New UI for LastMinute-Learning
- Started wiki on website which allows to share own card-sets with other users
- Unified API of different learning apporoaches
- Bug-fixes
- new artwork
- flashcard-category management
- new longterm memorization scheduling mechanism
- improved last-minute learning
- improved locale-detection (use oo-locale instead of document-locale)
- improved odp-serialization (use custom document properties instead of custom user properties)
- four flashcards modes (normal, reverse, random reverse, both sides independent) (major feature!)
- improved presentation of flashcards
- bug-fixes
- fully compatible with OpenOffice 2.3
- keyboard mapping for learn-dialog
- settings management
- configurable leitner system
- i18n (German, Portugese, English, French)
- card-side reversing
- removed Java6 dependencies
- integrated versioning and autoupdate-information into oxt-file
- bug report dialog in case of exceptions
- presentation dependent learn-settings
- Leitner flashcard learning
- Different learning strategies
- Implemented as OpenOffice extension
- Persistent session states
- OpenSource: Published under BSD-license