- Version RCFV.4.5.2411.4819
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Change log for version 4.5
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Fixes:
( 1) Fixed a problem where the special quote marks, ‘ and ’ were not translated to an ASCII apostrophe, '.
( 2) Fixed a number of problems related to the file list window. In particular, when selecting files focus could be lost to the main window or some files might not be refreshed correctly and require a manual refresh. This would be particularly noticeable when doing a quick scan of the files using the up and down arrow keys.
( 3) If you specify an HTTPS protocol it is automatically converted to HTTP since the former does not work for all web sites. Note that this is not a security risk since RCFV is read-only and no data is sent to the web site.
( 4) The priority for highlighting has been changed such that matches override emphasis. Before this, emphasized text which contained any matched characters would prevent the matches from being seen. It is clearly more important to see the matched text so we have prioritized that.
( 5) Fixed a problem where urls with special characters in the rightmost segment were truncated, e.g., https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.00365-23.
( 6) Fixed a regression which might create a problem when evaluating HTML tags which do not contain spaces between quoted attributes, e.g., <a class="tout-title-link"data-track-click="{"index":10}"href="/visiting-towns-in-us-feel-like-europe-best-leavenworth-washington">. In this case the link generated for the anchor tag was incorrect.
( 7) We fixed a problem where, when you ask for explicit links, e.g., :: http://time.com, to appear on a separate line, the newline characters which would effect this were accidentally erased during processing.
( 8) Fixed a problem that was preventing Apple News encoded urls, e.g., https://apple.news/A5XX4AYQaRBiKFaA4WcSJdA, from being handled by RCFV. They are now (again) redirected to the actual url.
( 9) Fixed a number of problems with lookup, {F2}.
(10) Fixed a problem where {F1} did not work when the scratchpad was the active control.
(11) Fixed a problem where very large numbers, e.g., 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 would cause an overflow error during TTS (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/backup-and-storage/fat-hpfs-and-ntfs-file-systems).
(12) Fixed a problem where some image urls were incorrectly converted to all lower case which would prevent mixed-case images from being rendered correctly.
New features:
( 1) Added support for multiple installed languages in TTS. If more than one language is installed then, instead of just choosing between a male and female voice, you are provided with a list box where you can pick a combination of 'culture' (language) and sex for the voice. Note that currently, even if multiple voices for a particular language are installed, we only support the default voice for each culture-sex combination. Also, many of the RCFV language customizations are for English only and will be ignored for other languages. Since this app is not internationalized some of the predefined optional phrases such as "START LINK" or "LEFT PAREN", etc. will always be voiced in English.
( 1.1) After adding new voices to your system you must run TTSVoicePatcher (as an admin). It is free software and may be found at: https://www.dipisoft.com/file/TTSVoicePatcher.zip
( 2) Added the ability to invoke the TTS dialog box from a quick key, {Alt}+{q}, or from the context menu in the scratch pad.
( 3) Added an option in TTS dialog to speak the selected text in the scratch pad. If no text is selected then all of the text in the scratch pad is spoken.
( 4) Added special support in the English voice for the Spanish letter, ñ, which is used in many Spanish names plus some common words used in English such as "El Niño".
( 5) We've added two keyboard actions in the file list: (1) you can now use the /, slash key, while navigating the file list to toggle the panel on the main screen, (2) you can use the {Home} key to restore focus to the list control if one of the controls below, e.g., a command button, has the focus and (3) you can press {Ctrl}+{F6} to return the focus to the main window. Also, you can press {Ctrl}+{F6} in the main display window to give focus to the file list window (and display it first, if hidden).
( 6) Certain web sites may not be read directly by RCFV but may actually be rendered if you read them in your browser and then view the HTML source text and copy it into RCFV. This is the case for urls from, for example, the Reuters' domain, www.reuters.com, which generate "401 Unauthorized" errors when accessed directly by RCFV and are sent to your default browser. If you want RCFV to convert the HTML to text instead of just viewing the raw HTML text you can depress the {Shift} key while pasting or dropping the text and avoid some intermediate queries.
( 7) When pasting text from a PDF multiple end-of-line characters are elided by Windows into a single one removing paragraph information. To create more readable (and speakable) text you can chose HTML formatting instead of TEXT. In the former case we automatically remove line-ends and replace them with new ones at the end of each sentence. You can select TEXT if you don't desire this reformatting.
( 8) We've added the ability to modify the smooth scroll delay via the up and down arrow keys. If you press the UP arrow key during smooth scrolling the delay will be DECREMENTED by 2 ms. to make the scrolling FASTER. Conversely, pressing the DOWN arrow key will similarly slow the scroll. This can be particularly useful to synchronize the display with TTS.
Plus some additional miscellaneous fixes.