Summary of Changes
Chinese Toolbox FREE 9.1.0 — April 16, 2009
The second major release of the Chinese Toolbox project
- In addition to Pinyin, character pronunciations in the character dictionary are displayed using Mandarin Phonetic Symbols (MPS), also known as Zhuyin or BoPoMoFo.
- Font display problems in Windows Vista and Chinese versions of Windows have been corrected.
- The “Need to learn” field has been enabled. “Need to learn” is also incorporated into the Character Review menu.
- The Current understanding level (now Current review mode) field displays the current review mode in plain English (the same text as shown on the Character Review menu), instead of representing the mode/level as a number.
- Vertical and horizontal text scrolling has been enabled for text frames. Text frames now clearly indicate whether or not there’s any undisplayed text.
- Text justification: Center and right justification works allowing frames containing numbers to be properly justified.
- Data export and import: Character dictionary data can be exported to a tab-delimeted text file, edited, and imported back into Chinese Toolbox.
- Character dictionary search: the four fields of the character dictionary (Pinyin, Zhuyin, English, and Notes) can be searched, either separately or in ANDed logical combinations. Search scope is either the entire character dictionary or the previous search results. Search results appear in the Search tab of the reader window.
- The character dictionary contains 27,867 entries, more than twice as many as the initial version (7.1.0).
- The contents of any frame can be copied to the Windows clipboard. Just select the frame (the selection box should appear), and press Ctrl-c to copy the frame data to the Windows clipboard. This makes the program easier to use with other Chinese-learning software tools and websites.
- A new Radical Information window displays all the basic information regarding Chinese radicals.
- The character dictionary contains information from numerous additional fields in the Unihan database; i.e. character variants (simplified, traditional, compatibility, etc.) and stroke counts.
- The end-user license agreement has been incorporated into the installer. The license agreement is no longer presented to the user during first launch of the program.
