SuperMemo 98 beta-testing program
Warning! Upgrade from SuperMemo 8.x
to SuperMemo 98 is irreversible!
Accessing help:
Please download smweb.chm file
from the Site
Map page (1.7 MB) and place
it in the bin subdirectory of SuperMemo. This file can be used to
display context-sensitive help pages in SuperMemo
You can also access help from this
site: SuperMemo 98 Help
Minimum Requirements:
486, Win95 or WinNT 4.0
8 MB RAM
Internet Explorer 4.0 (only for HTML
processing and Complied HTML help)
New features added during
beta-testing
translation and transliteration
keyboard shortcut
Add pronunciation picks
the currently selected text into the text field
possibility to turn off on-the-fly
lexicon compilation to speed up the program (Tools
: Options : Data access : Compile lexicon on-the-fly )
connecting to SuperMemo Website in
case CHM file was not found in Help
detecting Internet Explorer 4.0
installation
speeding up writing of texts to the
disk
supporting WMF format in image
components
SuperMemo remembers the last used Display
At status set in sound components and use it as
default when creating new sound components
displaying X and Y mouse coordinates
when using drag-and-drop from the Compose toolbar
options Transparent, Stretch and
Edit Hit-Area work with JPG, GIF and WMF
images
Import : Multimedia Files can
now also import JPG, WMF, MID and RMI files
Set difficulty ordinal
in the contents window to generate ordinals from a real
learning process
File : Registration :
Unregister (e.g. for redistribution of
collections with unregistered SuperMemo)
protecting Print
button from accidental use
English interface can also be edited
with Localization table (without the
need to change the name)
Bugs fixed
Beta B, Aug 20, 1998
some entries were missing in the
localization table
main window would disappear
occasionally on restore
elements would disappear from the
history window on click in beginner and basic modes
occasionally browser columns would be
zero-sized on switching between levels
maximize status would be lost on
switching between levels
errors would be reported at switching
to beginner level with HTML components in the currently
displayed element
History button would be permanently
disabled on the first entry to the program
Shift+click translations would turn on
the editing mode
deleting all texts from HTML editor
would not clear the web browser component
program would report multiple errors
in case mshtml.dll or shdocvw.dll were missing
on opening browser, the browser window
would be deactivated by the element window
Ctrl+F and Ctrl+A would cause
integrity errors if the translation windows was opened
Beta C, Aug 25, 1998
repetition at midnight could result in
wrong scheduling date errors
GIF and JPG image components would not
work
Q&A import and export would not
work
default background in SuperMemo 8.4
would turn black upon upgrade to the new version
File : Reset : Collection would
apparently hang up on large collections
using the contents pop-up menu would
result in blocking drag-and-drop operations on the
Compose tab
Insert HTML link would often report
errors and delete the hyperlinked text
choosing a new element would not close
Path or Title tabs
using pop-up menu in empty image
registry would result in errors
localization files (TRA) would not
accept long filenames
Duplicate would not store the
duplicated item on the history list
Contents window would not display the
icon for a duplicated item
dropping elements from Element ClipBox
would not initially refresh the element's content
old title would remain in the element
data window upon accepting a new title
Alt+N during title editing would loose
the changes
Beta D, Sep 3, 1998
pending browser would not close before
sorting the pending queue
Search and Replace in
registries would skip some members due to reindexing
lack of repetition history file would
abort Import : Learning process
Help did not work at
the beginner and basic levels
Last Repetition set at the First Day
of the learning process would not show up in the element
data window
JPG and GIF images would not preserve
the Stretch status
registry search results would not be
sorted
focus on grade keys would move in the
wrong direction upon pressing arrow keys
early Internet Explorer 4.0
installation would not be detected
component labels would not be updated
upon deleting one or more components
Beta E, Sep 15, 1998
removing focus from edited component
after Duplicate would not be possible
with Esc
opening collections without phonetic
transcription after collections with mouse-move
transliteration would occasionally cause errors
ClipBoxes were disabled in Beta D
default size of the element window
would not fit 800x600 resolution
copy and paste would not work on image
components
Import in
localization table would ignore font setting
switching with subset>0 in registry
to another window would reset the subset
displaying dates would ignore
short-date setting in Windows
pop-up menus were available at the
beginner and basic levels
Color would not work
in RTF components
Beta F, Sep 19, 1998
File menu would often
be invisible upon switching back from professional to
beginner level
RTF component would occasionally
report an error: Posit=0 at IntegrateRTFFile
RTF texts could not be edited in the
text registry
vertical line would become slanted
upon switching to editing mode
File : New would use
a wrong path if the pathname included a dot
You can compare the present
beta-testing procedure with the results of beta-testing
SuperMemo 8.2 (Feb 1997 -
May 1997) and beta-testing SuperMemo 8.4 (Aug 1997 - Jan 1998)