iWisdom Version History

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Version 1.70

At the request of a current user, added a horizontal rule between the body text and the remaining information for a wisdom item, on the Display view. This provides some nice visual separation between the primary information above and the secondary information below.
A list of categories already used now drops down automatically when your cursor enters the Category field. You may click on an item in the list to select it, or you may type enough of the desired Category to see it selected on the list, then press Enter/Return to select the currently highlighted entry from the list. The process may be repeated, after typing a comma, to assign multiple Categories to an item.
The program previously supported multi-level categories (separated by periods) but support has now been added for multiple categories, separated by commas (each of which may have one or more levels). When viewing items from the Categories tab, an item with multiple categories will appear multiple times, once for each assigned category.
Added several check boxes to the Display Preferences tab of the iWisdom General Preferences to allow unused fields to be suppressed. Title, Source, Source Type, Date Added and ID Number can all now be suppressed if desired from appearing on the Display tab.
Corrected bug in Item/Duplicate processing. Starting with version 1.60, when a new item is added, its text is compared to that of existing entries and, if a duplicate is found, the new entry is merged with the old one, rather than being added. Unfortunately, when an item was requested to be duplicated, the second occurrence of the item was being merged with the first, resulting in no change. This was corrected by changing the body of the new item to some standard text referring to the duplication. This allows the user to duplicate an entry in order to avoid rekeying author and source information for multiple entries from the same source.

Version 1.60

Enhanced the Import function to detect duplicate entries, and to add new information from the imported duplicate, if available.

Version 1.51

Each item is now assigned a unique ID number when it is added to a collection. When publishing a collection to a Web site, a shortcut file is generated for each item in the collection, with each shortcut file redirecting to the actual HTML file at the longer URL location. The shortcut file is designed to provide a shorter URL that can be used to reference a Wisdom item.
Added the ability to export a collection into the Markdown text format.
Corrected a problem with proper spacing after use of embedded inline HTML within a paragraph.

Version 1.50

Redesigned the iWisdom User Interface to make it more closely adhere to normal user expectations. Removed several windows from the string of tabs that existed before and put them in more logical locations, with the locations in some cases being dependent on the OS on which the application is run. The changes are described going from right to left along the old string of tabs.

The About tab is now available on the Mac at the iWisdom menu / About item, and on Windows at the Help menu / About iWisdom item.

The Log tab is now available from the Window menu / Log item, on all operating systems.

The Prefs and View tabs are now available from a tabbed Preferences window, which is available on the Mac at the iWisdom menu / Preferences item, and on Windows at the Tools menu / Options item.

The Export and Import tabs are now available as separate windows from their respective items under the File menu, on all operating systems.

The four remaining tabs are now split between two different panes. The List and Category tabs are on the left/top pane, and the Display and Edit tabs are on the right/bottom pane (a new check box under General Preferences allow you to choose you to split the panes horizontally or vertically). The first two panes act as selection panes, and the last two allow you to view/edit a single, selected item.

What used to be known as the Rotate button is now called the Scan button, and has been moved to the tool bar. Clicking once begins the process of showing a different item in the Display window every few seconds, and clicking again on the same button now ends the scan.

Additionally, a search field has now been added to the toolbar, followed by a Find Button.
New items on the File menu now allow the user to create a backup file, and to revert their current collection to a previous backup file.
The import function for text files has been improved in several ways. On a Mac, you may import a file simply by dragging and dropping the file onto the application. The ability to parse the text files and accurately identify authors, quotations, years and categories has been improved, although the extent to which this will work well for any individual text file is hard to predict, due to the variation in formatting used within these sorts of files.

Version 1.41

Corrected several bugs that were causing malformed HTML to be generated.
Fixed the problem that was causing the author link to be dropped.

Version 1.40

When first installed, iWisdom will now show Tips in a separate window each time that it is launched. These can also be requested from the Help Menu. Automatic display of these upon launch can be turned off (or back on) on the Prefs tab, as well as in the Tips window itself. The next tip will be displayed each time iWisdom is launched. The user may scroll through the tips in either direction.
Menu Items have been added that will allow quotes to be added or removed from the current quotation, or from all quotations in your collection. These functions allow you to fairly easily decide to display your quotations with quotation marks, or without (depending on your personal inclination).
Added Web Log and Web Page as Source Type values.
A new item has been added to the Help Menu, titled iWisdom Import Sources. Selecting this item will cause a Web page to be loaded in your browser. The Web page will list a number of available Import sources for your collection of quotations.
iWisdom now automatically generates the HTML equivalent for each wisdom item directly, without use of XSLT. This change provides greater ability to precisely control the HTML presentation.
The body of the iWisdom item is now stored, displayed and edited as XHTML.
When generating HTML, certain characters appearing in the body of an item are now converted to their appropriate HTML character entities. Pairs of consecutive hyphens are now changed to em dash characters; double quotation marks are converted to "curly quotes"; and apostrophes/single quotation marks are converted to their curly equivalents.
A Favorites drop-down menu has been added to the Import Tab. Select an Internet source for importable wisdom from the drop-down menu, then click on the Import button to import all items from the selected source.
Program will now launch successfully even if it is removed from its enclosing iWisdom folder.
Fixed a problem that was preventing the Source Link field from being editable.

Version 1.30

Added a new "Author Info" field. This will be appended to the name of the author so that, if you wanted the author to appear as "Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple", you would enter "Steve Jobs" in the Author field, and "CEO of Apple" in the Author Info field.
Added a Tool Tip to Author field on the Edit Tab, to clarify that names are to be entered first name first.
The collection tab now allows you to specify that all new items are assumed to be direct quotations. The Edit Tab now includes a check box allowing you to specify that the text entered represents a direct quotation.
Changed some references to the Body of the item from "Description" to "Body".
Corrected a problem that caused some items to continually duplicate themselves. This was caused by an inconsistency in the way files were named. The I/O routine has been corrected to always use the actual file name (rather than a calculated one).
The XML files created are now stored in UTF-8 format, and non-ASCII characters are converted appropriately.

Version 1.21

In some cases, when using a computer with varying display configurations, iWisdom could "remember" where it was last positioned and end up not visible with the current screen configuration. In these cases, pressing Ctrl-W (on Windows systems) or Cmd-W (on Mac systems) will return the window to a standard size and location so that it will be visible.
Corrected a "Null File" message that was erroneously being generated when trying to import an XML file from a Web URL.

Version 1.20

Added the ability to generate an RSS Feed. A new Collection tab allows you to specify information about the collection as a whole: information needed as part of an RSS feed. The date created is also captured for each wisdom item, allowing the wisdom to be sorted by this creation date, and adding another field needed for an RSS Feed. The default theme, portablewisdom1, now generates an RSS feed of the most recent five items added to the collection.

Version 1.10

Added "Speech" as a valid Source Type.
An import tab has been added. Two new XML import formats are now supported: the Quotation Markup Language (QML), and the Quotation Exchange Language (QEL). In addition, xml formats can now be imported from a Web URL, as well as from a local file. PortableWisdom.org, for example, now has links that can be used for imports.
The program can now check to see if a later version of iWisdom is available. On the Prefs Tab you may now check or uncheck a box to check this automatically whenever the program is launched. Just below the check box, a button is available to request that the version be checked immediately. An active Internet connection is required to check the latest version. If a newer version is available, you will be given an option to visit the Version History page in your Web browser. From there, you may proceed to the Downloads page if you would like to download the newer version.

Version 1.01

Version 1.00 could only be run on Java 1.5. For Mac users, this meant it could only be run on Mac OS X 10.4. This has been corrected, and iWisdom can now be run on Java 1.4, and on Mac OS X 10.3.
iWisdom sometime refused to launch due to an initialization problem. This has been corrected.

Version 1.0

This was the initial release of iWisdom.

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