v5.9.1
- the buttons in the mini-button bar now depress in 3D, rather than being inverted when pressed.
- a 'Blank HTML page' item was added to the New submenu of the Text menu (this new feature was not included in the demo version to make evaluation more streamlined).
v5.9.0
- speedkeys and a new button bar for the most commonly used HTML tags has been added to the Text dialog. This vastly speeds up tag entry and editing of multilingual web pages.
- some entities for special symbols are now interpreted by the browser, allowing such characters as '<' and '>' to be embedded in web pages. These entities can be entered by control-clicking characters on tables on the Input dialog. Characters which support this feature are shown in blue.
- a 'Help split' command has been added to the Windows menu. This arranges the Text and Help dialogs on the screen to make it easy to work through tutorials and view help whilst using the wordprocessor.
- Command-'.' (Left-Alt-'.' on the PC) now cancels a displayed HTML tag dialog.
- the 'Macro' function has been removed from the Text dialog, since the Stationary function does a very similar task and thus makes it redundant.
- the Font tag input dialog has been enhanced with new popup menus to select font face and size.
- 'non-breaking spaces' can now be inserted into HTML documents.
- when creating a new text file, a blank HTML page or blank document can be created.
- the Imagemap shape input dialog does not now automatically stay up until cancelled.
- when maximizing dialogs, the dialog size has been tweaked to better fill the screen.
- when creating a new text file, the appropriate extension is automatically added to the file name. Thus, when a new HTML page is created, it is given a '.htm' extension. When a new document is opened, it is given an extension based on the file save format set in JWM.
* after opening a new text document and entering some text, it was possible to undo repeatedly and cause a system crash.
v5.8.1
- when saving the words found from a dictionary search as a text file, the correct Japanese text format file extension is added to the file name.
- when loading files, automatic Japanese text format detection now detects Unicode and the various JIS formats better. This is especially useful with '.txt', '.htm' and '.html' files, since the file extension does not suggest a particular Japanese text format.
- when loading files, the Japanese text file extension (eg. '.sjs', 'jis', etc.) is now used to suggest a particular Japanese text format to the automatic Japanese text format detection system before it tries testing for other formats.
v5.8.0
- various enhancements to the Kanji Safari game.
- the automatic detection of the Japanese text format has been improved. JWM now first tests if pasted text is in the selected clipboard format before testing for other formats. This reduces possible detection errors.
- the button bar graphics on the Text, Browse and Help dialogs have been enhanced using a 3D metal style.
- the Preferences submenu was moved from the Text menu to the Edit menu.
- when a file is selected as a HREF or SND in the imagemap shape dialog, the Cursor checkbox is checked.
- in the Windows version, when selecting between a number of modeless windows, the title bar of the window brought to the front no longer flickers.
- in the Windows version, the core has been updated. This enhances and fixes a range of operating system level issues.
* when a new HTML document (or course module) was opened when the Browse dialog was already displayed, the file system path to resources in the new HTML document would be wrong if the document was stored in a different folder to the document already displayed. This would result in broken links, pictures not being displayed, and sounds not being playable in the new HTML document.
v5.7.2
- in the Windows version, the core was updated. This fixes and enhances a range of operating system level issues.
* deleting a player name in the 'Kanji Safari' player setup dialog did not permanently remove it from the player list (it would still be displayed the next time JWM was launched).
* occasionally the player list popup menu in the 'Kanji Safari' player setup dialog would not work.
v5.7.1
- the Windows version has been made much more resilient to corruption if the PC crashes whilst JWM is running.
- the 'Japanese-English' import filter name was changed to 'Japanese-English SJIS text file'.
* color-coding in the Kanji input system (ie. red for Jouyou Kanji, black for non-Jouyou Kanji) did not work correctly for Kanji compounds, but only for single Kanji.
* after starting flashcard exercises, the course module and 'Kanji Safari' menu items remain selectable.
* if a file was opened before 'Kanji Safari' was started, an alert may incorrectly say that it could not open the tile matching data file.
* in the Windows version, the Dictionary information text items were drawn in black-on-white rather than black-on-gray.
v5.7.0
- a new import filter has been added which can import any Japanese-English word list (one line per entry) in SJIS format. Kana, Kanji and English can be separated with a single-byte Roman space, double-byte Kana space ($8140) or tab. Thus, word lists can now be imported easily from databases, Japanese wordprocessing documents, etc. Importing works correctly whether the Kana or Kanji information occurs first in a line, though English must always be at the end of the line.
- a Course module player function has been added.
- a multiple choice study system has been added (as a new type of list item) to the HTML web page editor / viewer. This makes it easy for users to create Course modules containing multiple choice exercises, quizzes, tests, etc.
- an imagemap editor has been added, allowing users to create web pages containing pictures with defined areas whose characteristics can be customised (areas can be used as links to other pages, they can display unique cursors, they can be used for multiple choice exercises, etc). This makes it easy for users to create Course module-based adventure games, interactive stories, etc.
- the Kanji Safari multiplayer game has been added, allowing up to 4 players to play against each other in learning Kana and Kanji characters.
- Media objects maximum size setting removed from the General preferences dialog - this value is now fixed at 200KB.
- JWM now scans the Templat directory to build up the popup menu of templates shown in the Text dialog.
- a number of additional templates have been added for the new comprehension-type exercise systems.
- Sounds files with sampling rates greater than 11KHz (eg. 22KHz and 44KHz) are now supported. This yields much higher quality recordings.
- in the Windows version, after a computer crash occurred whilst JWM was running, sometimes JWM would not subsequently start properly and would need to be re-installed. An auto-revert system has been added to combat this problem.
* when using the Find word, New word or Edit word dialogs, if the backspace key was pressed when editing any English textbox, a backspace could subsequently occur when entering Kana.
* a speed problem manifested itself in the browser and help dialogs, which may slow down operations on even the fastest computers.
* in the Windows version, when flashcard exercises were started and there were no words set to 'Learning' or 'Mastered' status, a fatal error may occur.
* if Command-Z (Left-Alt-Z on the PC) is used to undo a previous action in the wordprocessor, it is possible to undo past the beginning of the undo buffer.
v5.2.6
- if a dictionary to be searched is locked (ie. set to "Read-only"), an alert is displayed notifying the user to unlock the dictionary so a search index can be created.
- holding down the Command key (Left-Alt on the PC) when clicking the Spyglass button in the Find word dialog causes the search indices of the dictionaries searched to be fully re-created.
* search index information for Word type may not be created properly if the Word type contained more than two characters (it can have up to five characters).
v5.2.5
- you can now quit JWM during exercises, rather than having to stop exercising first.
- a help button was added to the Exercise dialog.
* in the Windows version, when using the Save as... command, the default file name displayed may also contain a directory path.
* when editing a text file and then using the Save as... command, the title of the Text dialog would not display the 'file://' prefix correctly.
v5.2.4
- in the Windows version, the cursor now changes to a diagonal stretch arrow when it's in a dialogs grow box.
- the Arial, Avante Garde and Helvetica Narrow fonts have been added to the choice of HTML web page viewer fonts available in the General preferences.
* in the Windows version, if a valid text file extension ('.sjs', '.uni', '.euc', '.jis', '.htm' or '.html') was not included as part of a new document name, the text file would not be subsequently displayed in the file selection dialog when the user tried to re-open it.
* in the Windows version, some modal dialogs exhibit cosmetic window update problems when an alert is displayed, leaving areas unfilled with background grey.
* when clearing a JWM dictionary, the cursor rotates in an uncontrolled fashion during the clearing process.
* in the MacOS version, the resize box is not available on the Output list dialog.
* in the Windows version, when the Eject button is pressed on the file selection dialog, subsequently pressing the Drive button will not remount any floppy disk that was inserted.
v5.2.3
- the All dictionaries must reside in the 'Dict' folder alert message was expanded to assist Classroom Edition users in locating the correct folder.
* on the Classroom Edition, the list of individual dictionaries shown in the popup menu on the Find word dialog were from the teachers 'Dict' folder, not the students 'Dict' folder.
* on the Classroom Edition, the checkbox titled, 'Use dictionaries on Teacher's hard disk' didn't always work correctly.
* on the Classroom Edition, some default preference settings were changed.
v5.2.2
* on the MacOS version, alerts containing buttons did not correctly process button presses.
v5.2.1
* the black frame around the Year, Lesson and Group textboxes on the Find/Edit/New dialogs were sometimes not redrawn.
* the Meaning textbox on the Input dialog didn't work.
* double-spaces were removed from alert messages in the Windows version.
* the growbox in the Windows version was updated.
v5.2.0
- the Windows version now features a standard Windows-style user interface.
- floppy disks are now automatically mounted on the Windows version.
- command-clicking in the Text dialog brings up a popup menu for superfast look up of characters and words.
- when creating a new text file, a file extension reflecting the currently selected file save format is added to the file name.
- both text and media file selection dialogs now filter all appropriate file types.
- the Eject floppy disk menu item has been removed from the Special menu.
- the Reading textbox on the Input dialog is now selected when the tab key is first pressed.
- the 'Hints for PC users' help card has been removed.
- the exercise text prompt, 'Type answer' has been changed to 'Word type answer'.
* furigana bar resizing did not work on the Edit/New word dialogs.
* the Kana/Kanji section of the Find/Edit/New word dialog may not be drawn correctly if a displayed Kana was wider than a Kanji.
* when resizing the Input dialog using the resize box on the Windows version, black lines would be left behind on the display.
* when a text file was being selected for insertion, an error alert would be displayed even if the cancel button was pressed.
* if attempting to attach a note file larger than 800 bytes, a fatal error may occur.
* when pressing the tab key when the Find/Edit/New word dialog is displayed on the Windows version, the cursor would not move down properly to the next textbox.
* when clicking the Save, Revert and OK buttons in the Edit word dialog on the Windows version, the button would not indicate correctly that it had been pressed.
v5.1.0
- All preferences have been put together into a single submenu.
- Opening a dictionary for word searching has been vastly simplified with a new popup menu system showing the various dictionary lists as well as all dictionaries stored in the 'Dict' folder.
- An Info menu has been added which allows character information and the help system to be more easily accessed.
- The Grammar page search function has been moved to the Special menu.
- A Look up character button has been added to the Text dialog.
- The wordprocessor, translator and HTML web page editor buttons in the Text dialog have been separated into color-coded sections.
- Wordprocessor template input has been moved to its own button in the Text dialog, and expanded to 8 templates.
- The 'Known Kanji' function has been removed to simplify operation.
- The save and load preferences function has been removed to simplify operation.
- A Reload page button has been added to the Browser dialog.
- A Help contents button was added to the Help dialog.
* Selecting a picture for insertion in the HTML web page editor failed if the image was smaller than 4096 bytes in size.
* Selecting a sound for insertion in the HTML web page editor failed if the sound was smaller than 10000 bytes in size.
* When formatting floppy disks, the background was not always updated properly when an alert was displayed.
* When loading and converting a text file, the loading-in-progress dialog may occasionally not be removed from the screen on completion.
* Extended European characters would not be saved correctly when Unicode format was selected as the text file save format.
* With the text file save format set to Unicode, the 'Save as text...' command would produce a text file with invalid carraige returns and line feeds. Thus, the text file format would not be subsequently detected correctly by JWM.
v5.0.5
- Unicode is now the recommended Japanese text format
* When dragging a text selection so that the Text dialog auto-scrolls up or down, scrolling runs at full speed rather than the scroll speed set in the preferences.
* Kanji with JWM codes from 1851-1945 were not displayed correctly during exercises, and could not be clicked to bring up their Kanji information.
v5.0.4
* scrolling the Kanji list up or down when the top line was highlighted could leave a small section on the extreme right of the line highlighted.
* some support files were not closed when quitting the application.
v5.0.3
- the Browser and Help dialogs now remember which part of the page is displayed when the forward and back buttons are used.
* the screen may not be redrawn correctly when deleting the last character of a text file.
* the 'modify diamond' (in the bottom left of the Text dialog) would not always be displayed when text was modified.
* deleting text from the very end of the text file did not always work properly.
v5.0.2
- pasting Japanese text into the Find word, Edit word and New word dialogs is now supported.
- the 'Basic vocabulary' dictionary was updated.
* two Find word dialog filter labels were marked Toyo, rather than Joyo.
* DFF (Distribution File Format) decoding may come up with an error when none actually occurred.
* if the help system root page was missing, a verbose alert would not be displayed to help explain the error.
* a fatal error alert comes up if Kanji with JWM codes 1851-1945 are used in exercises.
v5.0.1
- the Grammar Library Builder function was added.
- an Undo function was added to the wordprocessor (which supports 40 levels of Undo).
- the speed of entry and deletion of text in the wordprocessor has been greatly increased.
- the ability to insert movie references into HTML web pages was added.
* the directory file path shown in the title of the text window was
delimited by ':', rather than '/'.
* the zoom box of the browser and help dialogs would require two clicks
to expand to full screen.
* pressing the spyglass in the Text dialog when a text selection was
not made would bring up an alert, but after the alert was dismissed, the
Text dialog would not become highlighted again.
* when deleting a file from a dictionary list, the dictionary could
not immediately be re-added since the dictionary would not be listed in
the file selection dialog.
* if Kana conversion dictionary entries without Kanji were shown in
the Kanji input list, the line remained blank.
* if an Opt-number keyboard shortcut was used to select a Kanji when
in Kanji input mode, and the Opt-number was out of valid range, an invalid
Kanji would still be selected and pasted.
* hitting the spacebar when the one of the dictionary dialogs was open
brought up an alert that a character could not be pasted.
* in the browser and help dialogs, the back and forward arrow information
would be stored even if a document could not be found and loaded.
* if a problem occurred opening a help page, the error alert did not
correctly display the system error code.
* in the browser and help dialogs, the back and forward arrow history would not be cleared when a new help document or browser document was opened.
* if an image was inserted into a HTML web document with a picture alignment selected from the popup menu, the alignment information would not be included in the HTML tag.
* when a wordprocessor document was open, the up and down arrows could not be used to select a Kanji from the Input dialog.
* bringing up the Character information dialog would clear any Kanji listed in the Input dialog.
* on slower computers, when scrolling down a list of Kanji with the arrow keys, a line may be incorrectly drawn at the bottom of the dialog.
* selection via JWM code and JWM code (extended) was not filtered with other criteria during a Kanji search.
* Option-number speedkey selection of Kanji did not work past the first 10 lines.
* copying words from the Output list to the clipboard caused a program crash.
* a memory leak occurred when sounds were used in HTML web pages.
* the column alignment was fixed when copying words from the Output list to the clipboard.
* if Option-number was used for Kanji selection when character information was sought, the highlighted line would be incorrectly drawn.
* deleting characters at the beginning of a line could cause a redraw which corrupted the display of the line.
* typing quickly could cause loss of some characters entered, and extras of others.
* holding down Command-v (to activate key repeat) when the Text dialog was displayed would paste text into the Input dialog instead.
* modeless dialogs cannot be dragged offscreen, making it very much less likely that windows will be automatically reset to their default positions.
v5.0.0
- Initial release