13. Version
History
Changes in version 3.0.3 (March 18,
2004)
- Now filters curly-quotes to straight
quotes
- Added Portuguese layout
- Fixed key display for a few more
non-US layouts
- Improved handling of locked folders
and wrong privileges
- Improved handling of busy files in
Network Mode
- Adjusted naming in Class Editor to
take file suffixes into consideration
- ParaTyper scores are now stored per
User in Network Mode
- First run now prompts user for
Account mode
- Mastery sounds are now off when key
sounds are off
Changes in version 3.0.2 (February 5,
2004)
- Fixed accented characters display
for French and German
Changes in version 3.0 (February 4,
2004)
- Added ParaTyper Game
- Added ability to select pages of
large text documents (Project
Gutenberg!)
- Added printing of Graph and Drill
Log
- Added filters for double carriage
returns and line feeds
- Converted all Drills to use file
extensions such as .txt (just put in Drills folder)
- Drill Mastery now considers 20
minutes for 10 minutes of mastery
- Fixed speed of longer drills in OS X
10.3
- Fixed quotes and apostrophes in
French drills
- Fixed other cosmetic issues in
10.3
Changes in version 2.3.3 (October 18,
2003)
- Improved Network Pupil and Drill
selection speeds by a factor of 2 or better
Changes in version 2.3.2 (October 15,
2003)
- Fixed a problem where drills that
selected random numbers would occasionally cause a
quit
- Drill Mastery now considers 30
minutes for 20 minutes of mastery
- User-typed color in test is now blue
to make it distinct
- Removed a few controversial words
from Drill Generator
Changes in version 2.3 (February 12,
2003)
- Added Mac OS Account
Mode
- Minor changes to run better with
latest Mac OS X
Changes in version 2.2 (September 8,
2002)
- Fixed a few display problems for
10.2 compatibility
- Added progressive drills for AZERTY
and QWERTZ keyboards
- Added drill generator (without
grammar) for French and German
- Added color selection preference for
hiding other applications
- More interface refinements including
adding sheets for OS X
- Create Network folder now works in
OS X
Changes in version 2.1 (April 10,
2002)
- Added Italian Pro and Swedish Pro
keyboard support.
- Window positions are now
remembered.
- Removed U.S. keyboard question for
QWERTY drills except for when Dvorak is selected so as not to
annoy the non-U.S. QWERTY users.
- Added hiding "Master Key Network"
folder to help tamper-proof this folder when in network
mode.
- Fixed Carbon build not showing
preferences in OS 9.
Changes in version 2.0 (November 29,
2001)
- All: New User Options subset of
preferences that can optionally travel with user accounts in
multiple-user environments.
- All: New Remember last login option
(for Macintosh Manager/Multiple Users).
- All: Better optimized the speed of
the keyboard animation.
- All: Automatic keyboard switching
for OS X 10.0.2 and higher and for all non-AppleSriptable keyboard
control panels in earlier Mac OS versions.
- All: Corrected some QWERTY drills
that had keys outside of key vocabulary.
- All: Corrected all situations for
network operation if network volume has the same name as any other
volume.
- All: Fixed premature ending of
longer drills.
- All: Cosmetic fixes.
- OS X: CoreGraphics now used in
typing area.
- OS X: Improved reliabilty of help
opening correctly.
- OS X: Fixed fruit loopy colored
buttons and menus in 10.1 and millions of colors.
- Reintroduced 68K-only
build.
Changes in version 1.6.2 (May 28,
2001)
- Completed most Carbon (OS X)
features
- Converted Master Key Help to Help
Viewer for OS X.
- Better Remembers preferences for
Keyboard.
- Fixed a couple duplicate nouns in a
sentence in Drill Generator.
- Fixed history rotation so that it
allows 500 drills and removes the oldest for each new
afterwards.
- Corrections to Dvorak
drills.
- Drill Cancellation privilege is now
always on.
Changes in version 1.6.1 (April 1,
2001)
- Made many modifications for Carbon
build.
- Converted Help to Apple
Help.
- Fixed slowness when Keyboard was
hidden.
- Fixed improper count display when no
items were selected in Master
Drills and Log panes of History window.
- Fixed improper display of Key WPM
and Key Error Rate in History.
Changes in version 1.6 (February 21,
2001)
- Added option for 12 or 24 point
type.
- Added Timed-drills
option.
- Added hand position animation and
animation options.
- Added congratulatory sounds for
Mastery and Mastery minutes and
message for how many Mastery minutes in the last
drill.
- Reworked the keyboard animation
methods to accomodate new graphic
elements.
- Made the cursor more
authentic.
- Drills now pause when preference
window is accessed.
- Reduced flicker in Stats
Window
- Fixed Choose Pupil at Startup and
Logoff to work again at startup (broken
in 1.5).
- Fixed redraw problems occurring
because of Font Smoothing in History
window and on drill text.
- Fixed first-run
preferences
Changes in version 1.5 (October 9,
2000)
- Added support and drills for numeric
keypad.
- Added drills for top row and several
new stories and anecdotes.
- Where supported, now supports 23
international key layouts including animation,
and keyboard menu is now changed automatically and
restored to whatever it was when the program was launched.
However, lessons are still English
QWERTY and Dvorak.
- Added option for single or double
spaces between sentences.
- Rewrote Drill generator to produce
more sentence like grammar though it
still produces nonsense and has thus been dubbed "Unnatural
Language Generator"
(ULG).
- Changed Key WPM and Key Error rate
to calibrate to Mastery Goals.
- Changed Stat Window to give better
at-a-glance information.
- Fixed bug where program would not
quit on the required AppleEvent.
- Fixed minor key animation
bugs.
- Fixed bug where Classroom Edition
disabled adding pupils after 5th new pupil.
Changes in version 1.1.1 (June 16,
2000)
- Added "Create Network…" in file
menu to automatically configure the program
to use the network.
- First FAT build (no more 68K and PPC
distinction).
Changes in version 1.1 (June 5,
2000)
- Improved animation and key response
time performance by more than 2 times.
- Improved backward compatibility back
to System 7.1.
- First 68K release for 68040-based
Macs (Quadra, LC 575, LC 580, etc.).
- Added metronome.
- Added New Class and New Pupil to
Class Editor.
- Added Full Keyboard to Drill
Generator.
Initial Release version 1.0 (March 2,
2000)