Easy Hanzi Changelog

Version 3.5.0.4763 (2013-12-09)

New: Added style option to change the font size of the cards.
New: Added support for colorized Chinese characters and options to turn it on and off.

Fixed: Changed dictionary search bar font to Arial, so that it displays characters correctly in all computers.

Update: Better handling of comma separated definitions in type-in sessions. eg. if the definition is "to make a telephone call, to call someone", now answering either "to make a telephone call" or "to call someone" would count as a good answer.

Update: Added English translation of sentence examples in dictionary.
Update: Flashcards can now be imported by right-clicking on a deck in the Manage screen.

New: pinyin colorization (can be enabled/disabled in Option dialog)
Update: MCQ pinyin suggestions is now a bit smarter. Instead of being random, it will sometime propose similar answers such "peng3", "peng1", "peng4".
Update: MCQ simplified/traditional is also a bit smarter. It will sometime propose answers that either share the same radical or the same non-radical part. For example, 吗/妈/码 or 清/深/潜.
Fixed: Added A, B, C keyboard shortcuts on MCQ session.
Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts sometime didn't work in Practice screen.
Fixed: Bug in session dialog when selecting Traditional then Simplified in MCQ session.

New: Display error message when trying to print when no printer is available
Update: Type-in session: Remove parenthesis when doing comparison for correct answer
Update: Session: added message on how to specify pinyin tones
Update: French locale
Fixed: scrollbar issue when drag & dropping cards onto decks
Fixed: When doing "radical:" search - traditional characters were shown instead of simplified.
Fixed: issue where "radical:" search didn't work

New: New type of session: multiple-choice questions.
New: New type of session: type-in questions.
New: Import/Export flashcard decks with possibility to import score data too.
New: Print flashcards by right-clicking on a deck and selecting "Print..."
New: Decks are now displayed in a tree view in the card manager.
New: Audio playback in dictionary (when hovering the mouse over Chinese characters or pinyin).
New: Example sentences in dictionary (when hovering the mouse over Chinese characters).
New: Stroke animations in dictionary (when hovering the mouse over Chinese characters).
New: Support for "deck folders" to group related decks together. Decks can be dragged and dropped to them.
New: Profile database is now backed up automatically before any upgrade.
Update: Moved HSK and Common Characters decks to deck folders.
Update: The normal type of session as been renamed "Self-assessment".
Update: Reorganized in a cleaner way context menus in Manage Cards screen.
Update: Changed session dialog layout into two columns, to leave more space for deck list and new options.
Update: Updated Chinese/English dictionary using last version of Cedict.
Various other optimizations and improvements.

New: Audio can now be played automatically when a card is flipped (can be enabled/disabled in the options).
Various other minor changes.

New: Added audio playback button to practice screen.
Fixed: mistakes in some HSK cards where the pinyin sometime had two tones like "da53 lan52 qiu52".

New: "radical:x" dictionary query to search all the characters that contain the given radical.
New: Radical information in dictionary.
New: Dictionary lookup from practice screen.
Other minor fixes and optimizations.