Beta 7.0.247.0 - 16 Jun 2008

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Build 7.0.247.0, 16 June 2008
30 day evaluation (4.6 MB)
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Build 7.0.247.0, 16 June 2008
30 day evaluation (5.2 MB)
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Build 7.0.247.0, 16 June 2008
30 day evaluation (19.4 MB)

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Summary of changes in this release

Full list of changes

Keyman Desktop

Help for new users

  • Hints to help you learn your way around Keyman Desktop [I1233, I1232]
  • Redesign of help system to make it easier to find help on keyboards and Keyman [I1236, I1251, I1256]
  • On Screen Keyboard can be shown automatically when a keyboard is selected [I1288]
  • Introductory tutorial to help start using a new keyboard layout [I1248]

Closer integration with Windows

  • Detection of Windows and Office language support requirements, including installing complex script support, Windows languages, Office language support and more. [I1189, I1400, I1220]
  • When you choose a keyboard, automatically switch Windows language [I1287]

New functionality

  • Font helper finds all the fonts on your system that work with the selected Keyman keyboard [I1353, I1374]
  • Keyboard Information page in On Screen Keyboard window [I1373]

Polish

  • User Interface Language dialog redesigned to make it clearer [I1212, I1245]
  • On Screen Keyboard can now be dragged anywhere on title bar [I1378]
  • Keyman tray icon menu redesign [I1259, I1291, I1352, I1371, I1372, I1377]
  • Improved performance [I1338, I1487]
  • Character Map in Keyman Desktop Professional integrates more cleanly [I1462, I1463]
  • Character Map includes Unicode 5.1

Bug fixes

  • Web proxy support now more reliable [I1465, I1496]
  • Application crashes [I1192, I1123, I1136, I1135, I1150, I1163, I1167, I1168, I1169, I1201, I1434, I14339]
  • Tweaks to setup process to make it cleaner [I879, I920]
  • Setup issues on Win2000 [I1344, I1408]
  • Setup check for updates failing when behind a proxy [I1440]
Keyman Developer

New functionality

  • Support listing multiple languages for a single keyboard [I1358]
  • Better support for creating HTML and XML files [I1420, I1421, I1423, I1424, I1425, I1426]

Polish

  • Performance improvements [I1221]
  • File information in project now updated more reliably [I1468]

Bug fixes

  • Application crashes [I1301, I1199, I1217, I1230, I993, I1402, I904, I1102, I1227]
  • On Screen Keyboard export bug fixes [I1185]
  • KeymanWeb compiler now strips additional invalid characters from identifiers when compiling [I1369]

Other Updates

  • KeymanWeb 1.0.126 [I1499]
Items missing in this beta
  • Help topics, including "More Information" in the Language Configuration dialog.
  • Uniscribe update.
  • Switching keyboard for all applications at once (as shown in option in Configuration).

Full list of changes