Changelog
Version 1.9.5 (2009-07-18)
- Added Spanish and Galician translations, contributed by Rafael Lopez Garcia.
- Some little bug fixes.
Version 1.9 (2007-09-13)
- Vocal pronouncing of all kana (w/ male & female voices).
- Switchable kana image theme (with the addition of a second theme, taken from the GPL program "Kana Test").
- Faster loading and enhanced design of the big kana table window.
- Updated Polivanov system (new transcripted kana).
Version 1.7 (2006-10-15)
- Brand new & great kana table window providing a very conveniant way to either view the full kana list (with transcription, and respecting traditionnal order), select the portion to be trained upon, or see high size kana image (by clicking on thumbnails).
- New kana image scaling feature (user may choose the relative size of the kana images which appear during the quiz).
- Optional use of Psyco to increase Kana no quiz's overall speed.
- All images have now switched to PNG format instread of GIF.
- Removing the Tkinter GUI to keep back the GTK as the unique interface for Kana no quiz.
- Various GUI design enhancements (including some little choplair arworks realised by Fayanne).
- Important code style cleanups plus programming design optimizations (thanks to Jeremy Bowers' patches in particular).
Version 1.5 (2006-05-12)
- System-wide installation & per-user configuration.
- More complete quiz result informations (wrong answer recap).
- Windows binary installation package.
- No more learning flow disturbance within a quiz using the text-entry answering method.
- Added possibility to extend random answers selection range from the same portion to the same kana set or kind.
- Added Polivanov's kana cyrillization system.
- New Russian translation (made by Aleksej R. Serdyukov).
- New German translation (made by Florian Niemann).
- A quit button added to the main window.
Version 1.4b (2006-01-01)
- Language confusion between Serbian & Swedish with the Tkinter interface corrected.
- Update of the Swedish translation.
Version 1.4 (2005-12-14)
- You can now choose several portions of the same kana set to train upon in the same time (if no portion selected in a set, that one becomes disabled
).
- Random list answer mode now permits up to five choices.
- Support for the 2 other popular romanization systems: the Kunrei-shiki's and the Nihon-shiki's. (Because they are really less used worldwide than the Hepburn's, choosing one of these systems remains for people who know what they are doing.)
- Some informations are now displayed during the quiz (romanization system used and question number) and you can choose to stop it after every answer (useful for example if you realized the quiz you began to perform is truly too difficult).
- Bug fix: no more endless quiz!
- Some improvements over the GTK+ interface, and replacement of the depracted widgets.
- Addition of a marvellous icon (GTK+ version)!
- Translations update (except for Brazilian).
Version 1.2d (2005-03-17)
- Addition of a Serbian translation.
- Some (English) spelling corrections.
Version 1.2c (2005-02-14)
- A bug created in the last version has been fixed... Now the
kana engine
should be clean !
Version 1.2b (2005-02-07)
- Bug fix: prevention, while doing the quiz using the random list mode, of getting the right answer appearing twice in the list.
- The interface type used by Kana no quiz is now indicated in the
About
window (in case that you don't see!
).
Version 1.2 (2005-01-23)
- The Sweedish translation has been finaly updated.
- In the GTK version, we can choose the length of the quiz from 1 to 200 questions.
- Addition of a new option to not repeat the same kana during the quiz (as much as possible: a kana might appear several time if the quiz lenght is bigger than the number of selected kana).
Version 1.1 (2004-09-25)
- Doing the quiz, the same kana now won't appear twice in a row any more.
- A new
Introduction
window which briefly introduce the Kana writing system and what this program is aimed to. - You can now choose to get trained only upon a portion of kana rather than the full kana set, it may be helpful forthe beginers!
;
Version 1.0 (2004-07-29)
- Addition of the
additional
katakana question set which contains syllabes used for foreign words. The sets are now:Basic
(formerlySingle
),Modified
,Contracted
(formerlyCombined
) &Additional
(for katakana only). In other words: ALL kana have been (normally
) implemented into Kana no quiz.
- The answers can now be typed directly through a text entry rather than selected from a list. It's harder!
;
- The option panel has been slighty redesigned.
- Program translation into Portuguese of Brazil. Unfortunately, the Sweedish translation has not been updated. ;(
Version 0.9 (2004-05-31)
- New combined hiragana & katakana added.
- Questions are now divided in several sets (single/modified/combined).
- At least one question set must be selected or a dialog will warn you.
- Update of translations.
Version 0.8 (2004-05-08)
- Forty-one kana added (total: 142). All the basic syllables of both the katakana & hiragana syllabaries are now implemented.
Version 0.7 (2004-04-17)
- Forty-five new kana added (total: 101).
- Many previous kana have been enhanced!
Version 0.6 (2004-04-03)
- Huge improvements of Tkinter interface (Windows)!
- Thirteen new kana added (total: 66).
- Better handling of the configuration file.
- Program language can be now changed on the fly from the configuration panel.
- Bug fix: first param appeared as a comment in the configuration file.
- Bug fix: results were shown just after the last question without told whether the answer was right or wrong!
Version 0.5 (2004-03-22)
- Internationalization (translations into French and Swedish).
- Seventeen new kana added (total: 53).
- New configuration panel (GTK interface only).
- Display of quiz results.
- A nice logo.
Version 0.3 (2003-12-02)
- Seventeen new kana added (total: 36).
- The same archive can now run both on GNU/Linux and Windows using different interfaces.
- Kana images are now placed under the Free Art Licence (http://www.artlibre.org/).
Version 0.2 (2003-10-31)
- Thirteen new kana added (total: 19).
Version 0.1 (2003-09-27)
- First release, with only 6 different kana!



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