Bug fix release. I fixed a whole bunch – crashes and more.
We still have ideas we’d like to add, but for now we’re going to have a “feature freeze”.
The program grew a lot between 1.3.7 and 1.3.8, from about 21,100 thousand lines of Java to about 40,900 plus 3,000 of C++.
So a few bugs crept in here and there. Kinda like Starship Troopers.
I squashed 9 of them with this update, and removed from junk code and junk features. There was a setting to change how the spelling practice orders words – why? It’s one of those things that people won’t even know exists. In the software biz we call that there “feature creep”; when there are features that aren’t used because nobody knows them.
Still, there’s one more feature I need to hammer in.
As it stands, teachers can make custom spelling assignments (and translation assignments).
It’s necessary for a student to be able to practice just the words on the assignment. A “Practice” button next to the “Take Assignment” button. Simple, obvious, useful.
I’ll smelt it and weld it on in the near future.
-Joe
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