WordCreator | Change Log

Change Log

On this page, you can find the history of changes made to the program WordCreator.

Improvement of the Counter (2024-07-27): Faster counting of long texts by using hash tables in the Counter.
Support of Combined Characters in the Counter (2024-07-26): Improved (aggregated) counting of combined characters as a single letter (for example from the Unicode blocks Combining Diacritical Marks, Combining Diacritical Marks Extended or Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement).
Automatic Syllable List (2024-07-23): If no settings for a preferred syllable list are saved, now, the syllable list matching the GUI language will automatically be loaded as the default syllable list.
GUI Improvement (2024-07-22): Sorting and designation of the syllable lists in the menu "Syllable Lists from Languages" according to the GUI language.
New Language (2024-01-27): Български (Bulgarian).
Loading of Files using Drag and Drop (2024-01-10): Syllable lists as well as texts to be counted can now be loaded by simply dragging the corresponding files from any folder onto the WordCreator. Supported are text files.
New Encoding Format (2023-12-31): Code Page 437 (CP437, IBM437, OEM-US) as further encoding for storing the result of the generator or counter in text format.
Window Positioning (2023-11-03): With the new option "Settings > System Integration > Always on Top" you can keep the window of the WordCreator permanently in the foreground above all other program windows.
New Option for the Creator (2023-06-21): Insert line break between the creation passes.
New Option for random Syllable Lists (2023-06-19): Random list of numbers from number X to number Y.
New Keyboard Shortcut for the Creator (2023-06-16): CTRL+N (create new words), CTRL+S (save result), Shift+CTRL+C (copy result to clipboard), CTRL+O (load syllable list) and CTRL+DEL (clear result).
New Keyboard Shortcut for the Counter (2023-06-16): CTRL+N (count current text), CTRL+S (save result), Shift+CTRL+C (copy result to clipboard as text), CTRL+ALT+C (copy result to clipboard as table), Shift+ CTRL+L (use result as syllable list), CTRL+O (load input text for counting), CTRL+W (clear input text) and CTRL+DEL (clear result).
Assignment of Syllable Frequencies (2023-06-13): Via the context menu of the syllable list (click with the right mouse button on the text box), you can now set all syllables of your current syllable list to the same frequency or to random frequencies. This function can also be used if your syllables have not yet been assigned any frequencies. So, with this function it is also possible to generate compliant syllable lists from pure text lists for the WordCreator.
Comments in Syllable Lists (2023-06-11): You can now insert comments into your syllable lists by preceding them with the character #.
New Storage Formats (2023-06-10): The result of the word creation can now, in addition to text files, also be saved in the formats DOCX, ODT and RTF.
Position Storage (2023-06-09): Improved storage of the last window position in environments with more than one monitor.
Size Storage (2023-06-06): Improved storage of the program window size and the program layout under high DPI conditions.
Adjustments of the User Interface (2022-10-22): Adjustments of the program windows and dialogs for an improved display under high-dpi resolution conditions.
Exclusion Criteria for the Counter (2022-07-03): New exclusion criteria for the counter with which it is possible to add only elements to the list that contain certain characters, start with certain characters or end with certain characters. The specification of the characters is also possible as a regular expression.
New Counter Options (2022-03-27): "Count double S instead of capital ß when combining uppercase and lowercase letters (ß -> SS)" and "Always count small ß - also when combining uppercase and lowercase letters".
Settings (2022-01-19): To reduce the size of the settings files, only those settings are stored, which deviate from the default settings.
Font resizing with mouse wheel (2021-06-10): In all multi-line text fields, the font size can now be increased or decreased with the mouse wheel while holding down the CTRL key.
New Program Version (2021-05-05): 64 bit version for Linux as Debian package, RPM package and portable binary.
Language Detection (2021-05-03): Improvement of the automatic language detection of the system language when starting the program.
New Language (2021-04-12): اَلْعَرَبِيَّة (Arabic).
Improved Help (2021-02-01): A readme file with instructions for running the program has been added to the ZIP archive for the macOS version.
CSV Export (2021-01-21): In the settings you can now define which characters (field separators, quote characters) are to be used for the CSV export. By default, characters are used according to the local system settings.
New Language (2020-02-24): Polski (Polish).
New Language (2020-01-27): Српски (Serbian).
New Language (2019-12-15): Русский (Russian).
New Program Version (2019-08-13): 64 bit version for macOS.
New Language (2019-07-10): 日本語 (Japanese).
Random Lists (2019-03-13): Improvement of the random list function.
Export Directory (2018-12-10): Storage of the last export directory.
New Export Format (2018-12-06): DIF (Data Interchange Format).
New Language (2018-06-18): Italiano (Italian).
Saving of window position and window size (2018-02-10): Position and size of the program window can now be saved in the startup settings and setting profiles.
New Text-Storage-Formats (2017-12-07): Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), Latin-2 (ISO 8859-2), general Windows Codepage, Windows-1250 (Central European), Windows-1251 (Cyrillic), Windows-1252 (Western European) and Windows-1253 (Greek).
High-DPI-Improvements (2017-12-06): Improvements of the graphical user interface and the icons for high dpi settings.
New Export Formats (2017-11-13): XLSX and ODS.
New Language (2017-09-25): Nederlands (Dutch).
New Language (2017-03-23): Dansk (Danish).
New Language Frequencies (2016-09-14): Character and syllable frequencies for the languages Albanian (Shqip), Belorussian (Беларуская) and Fijian (Na Vosa Vakaviti) were added.
New Language Frequencies (2016-09-07): Character and syllable frequencies for the languages Latvian (Latviešu) and Macedonian (Македонски) were added.
New Language Frequencies (2016-09-06): Character and syllable frequencies for the languages Croatian (Hrvatski), Mongolian (Монгол) and Ukrainian (Українська) were added.
New Operating System (2016-07-13): Release of the Linux version as Debian package, RPM package and binary.
New Language (2016-05-29): Français (French).
New Operating System (2016-05-24): Release of the Mac OS X version.
File Associations (2016-02-05): Settings (File Extension WCS, Word Creator Settings) can now be linked with the program directly out of the application - Info.
Change of Default Settings (2015-07-07): By default, by now, only single letters are added to the syllable list (no digrams and trigrams). Reason: The long syllables and the field "Length of Words" could lead to confusion when unexpected long words were created. Remedy: You can restore the old behavior in the settings "Syllable List".
New Creator-Option (2015-07-07): The WordCreator now offers the new option "Use every syllable only once per word".
Improvement (2015-05-06): Improved display on High-DPI-Screens. Possibilty to adjust the column width.
Reordering (2015-05-06): Reordering of the counter settings from former 2 tabs ("Counter" and "Counter Output") to 3 tabs ("Counter", "Counter Characters" and "Counter Output") for reasons of clarity.
Enhancement of the Counter (2015-04-16): Option to not reset the counter after countaing, what makes it possible to count several texts together.
Enhancement of the Counter (2015-04-01): You can now use regular expressions to narrow or specialize the text to be counted. In addition, it is possible to display the matches.
New Language (2014-07-14): 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese).
Settings Storage (2014-07-13): Settings can now selectively be saved in a folder provided by the operating system or in the application folder which is increasing portability of the application. More details can be found on the help page about storing settings.
Positions (2014-07-10): It is now possible to determine how many times at which position within a word a character occurs. You can also use the positions for your syllable list to create new words therefrom.
New Languages (2014-05-30): Português do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese) and Español (Spanish).
Improvement of existing function (2012-01-09): Improvement of the user experience of input boxes, improved feedback and bug fixes.
New Function (2010-08-18): The new function "Font for all Boxes" was added to the settings menu. With this function, it is possible to choose a font for all boxes in the WordCreator with only one click. This is necessary especially when using special uncommon Unicode characters, because it is not possible to display all characters with all fonts. So, you can use a font which can display exactly the characters you are using in your lists or texts.

Note: Minor changes, such as updating an existing program translation or fixing a bug, are typically not included in this list. Therefore, if you find a newer version of the program in the download area than the most recent date in this list, we have typically made such a change to the program.