On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Hi, > > I thought that you would appreciate an update of what has been happening > with > 2.0, so that you don't think that no news means no work gets done :-) > > The past six months have seen steady progress, and I'm very happy with the > way > things are coming along, and the help I get from several people. > > The current code allows you to add cards, go through the revision process > and > edit or delete the current card. The following new features have also been > implemented: > > -Support for what is called card types. The main user visible changes are > that > editing a vice versa card or three sided card will automatically update > the > related card. There is also support for N-sided cards. > -Each individual field in a card can now have its own font, colour, ... > which > can be set through the GUI. No more need for hacks like 'increase size of > non-latin characters'. Background colour is also configurable per card > type. > -Cards can belong to more than one category. > -Added card type for maps, and for cloze deletion. > -Plugins can now be turned on and off through the GUI. > -Move from Qt3 to Qt4 as GUI toolkit, which has better performance and > eliminates many interface quirks. > -Windows now use scroll bars when the data does not fit. > -The widget that displays the cards is now a full webbrowser, with e.g. > support for Javascript, animated gifs, ... > -Move to SQL as the storage backend, resulting in improved speed and memory > usage, as well as better scalability for large decks. Majority of work > done > by Ed Bartosh. > -Intelligent sorting of categories containing numbers, so that you no > longer > have to call a category 'Lesson 01' instead of 'Lesson '1 to get the > correct > ordering (Mike Appleby). > -Uses Phonon as sound backend instead of PyGame (Louis Cyphre). > > At the moment, we are working on the following: > > -improved performance for the scheduler on mobile devices by yours truly > -graphical statistics by Mike Appleby > -a Maemo frontend by Ed Bartosh > > Still to do: > > -import/export > -activate categories > -edit deck > -various smaller UI stuff. > > The current version is not yet ready for end users, and we are looking at > at > least a few more months of work, but things are coming along nicely! > > I will also try to post more regular status updates in the future. > > Cheers, > > Peter > > > > This sounds excellent, can't wait! Thanks, -- Jesse Weaver --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
