PolyGlot Language Construction Toolkit 2.0

This is a big one for PolyGlot! 2.0! This is largely due to the UI revamp, which is much overdue. I hope that this is more useful to everyone and easier to use than the last UI was. It's also a massive bugfix update. As with most major releases, perhaps 2/3 of all the code changes have been to quash various bugs. If something goes wrong, please tell me, or I can't fix it! Anyhoo. On to listing the new goodies in this version.

• total UI revamp
• Upgraded to iText 7.0.1 for PDF printing
• Created freetext option for classes (arbitrary text field added to words)/integrated with quickentry/PDF printing
• Created a frontend, integrating PolyGlot for Windows users
• added "Wipe all deprecated wordforms" function
• comma delimits now work in searches
• You can copy/paste/delete multiple rules in a conjugation at the same time
• Split phonology into its own section
• Added romanization table to phonology section/integrated it with relevant views/PDF printing
• Eliminates dependence on Dropbox (when looking for updates)
• Corrected an obscene number of bugs

I really hope everyone enjoys this version!

PolyGlot: Language Construction Toolkit 1.4

As always, there have been some upgrades/improvements to PolyGlot that are beneath the surface, helping to keep it running with fewer bugs and more reliability, but here are the ones that you’ll be interested in.

I've added the ability to insert images into text boxes with a simple right click. You can either browse for the files, or copy/paste them in. They'll save along with the text, and if you publish to PDF, they'll appear properly. This was a highly requested feature, and I hope you like!

There is a whole new Quizzing engine that's been added to PolyGlot. By loading it up and telling it what you would like to be quizzed on, it can generate a variety of types of flash cards, which is enormously useful for increasing general fluency. Give it a try and see if it doesn't speed up your vocab memorization times!

• All text fields now image compatible
• Quizzing engine added
• Publish to PDF compatible with text field images
• Right click to copy/paste in text fields added
• Main menu is no longer always on top (HIGHLY REQUESTED)

Please enjoy, everyone!

PolyGlot: Language Construction Toolkit 1.3

This time around, I've made more behind the scenes and polishing changes than I normally do, but there are new features as well! The functionality I'm working on for the next release is a quizzing system that can automatically generate flash card quizzes based on your lexicon and what word traits you want to work on... so look forward to that one!

• This manual is updated to look quite a bit nicer (pretty hard on the eyes before!)
• Gender functionality removed from PolyGlot (replaced)
• Class system implemented in PolyGlot (takes care of gender and many other possibilities)
• Cleaned up the GitHub repository
• Fonts now default to Charis, a Unicode compatible font
• Renamed everything having to do with the "Thesaurus" to "Family." (actual thesaurus will come later)
• Standardized a lot of menus and cleaned up the look of PolyGlot quite a bit
• As always, a ton of bugs squashed.

Enjoy!

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 1.2.2

Another minor release that corrects a bug introduced with the last large under-the-hood code refactor which prevented the Grammar section from functioning.

• JavaFX test should now work correctly.
• Grammar section functioning once again.
• The font of all new languages now defaults to something unicode compatible, regardless of OS.
• Saving no longer takes place in its own thread, which was causing problems (hold over from pre-io optimizations)

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 1.2.1

Minor release here that addresses a few bugs that slipped by with my latest release. Enjoy, guys!

Fixes:

• Saving/loading giving some people trouble
• IPA chart now copies as you would expect to the clipboard
• warn users if they do not have JavaFX installed.

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 1.2

This is the first new build in some time, and I have two significant new features coupled with a lot of under the hood stability/code solidity updates this time around. I hope everyone else gets as excited about this release as I am! Enjoy! :D

• Implemented Publish to PDF (much requested feature for some time!)
• Implemented the Interactive IPA Window
• Corrected very buggy behavior by the filter option box on the main Lexicon window
• Updated much labeling across PolyGlot to eliminate improper terminology
• Corrected a saving bug that was affecting newer versions of Windows (all stream safe now)
• Added the ability to filter on illegal words to the Lexicon window
• Added a section for author info/copyright in the Language Properties window
• Windows now remember their last position/size each time PolyGlot is opened.
• A ton of lesser bugs were fixed (as per normal)

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 1.1

Hello, everyone! Been some time since my last update! This version doesn't have much in the way of new functionality, but it squashes some very important bugs that have caused people big problems with declensions in the past (autogeneration in particular). I've been pretty busy in the past few months, but I'm trying to carve out some time to work on PolyGlot again!

Enjoy!

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 1.0.1

This is mostly a bugfix update, but with the help of users reporting bugs (I fix what you let me know about!) I've found a few important ones that are corrected in this minor update.

Enjoy, everyone!

• A bug where types would be blanked out when you create new types has been fixed
• A bug preventing Save As from actually saving has been fixed
• PolyGlot now remembers which screens were open when you closed it, and the last position of all screens

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 1.0

This is it! This is the 1.0 release! I have been busting my butt to bring this to all of you and am super excited to release it! This version takes PolyGlot from a glorified lexicon to a true language toolkit, with the ability to include formatted chapters and sections on your conlang's grammar. This also marks the release of my own first conlang, Lodenkur! Prior versions of PolyGlot came with a very limited glimpse at it, but this includes the grammar, spoken examples, etc. It's included with this release!

One big thing this release: I have dropped Java 6 support. I'm sorry, but the IO for J6 across various platforms was just too broken for me to deal with any more. Users had been losing work, and I just can't allow that.

Wrapped versions (OSX and Windows) will come later, but the download available now should work for everyone.

Now, on the the meat of this, the new features:

• An unreal number of bugs have been stomped. Many created and quashed between this version and the last.
• The biggest and baddest addition to PolyGlot this time around is the Grammar Guide.
  ---- Fully formatted text with tree separated, searchable chapters and sections.
  ---- Compatibility with RTL styled languages, including for fonts that do not normally support RTL.
  ---- Audio recording/playback per section, allowing for the encoding of spoken examples.
• Wildly reworked UI
  ---- Lexicon screen totaly rehauled, allowing for screens with much lower resolution to use PolyGlot.
  ---- Main interface split into multiple windows, more appropriate for complex language work.
  ---- Graphical elements added to many buttons and menus.
  ---- Add/delete key combinations added to relevant forms.
• RTL option added for languages. This will force RTL letter ordering and typing, even for character sets which do not normallty support it.
• The search/filter on the lexicon window is now 100% regex pattern compatible.
• When searching your conlang words, the filter will now search all declensions in addition to searching headwords for a match.
• Recently opened files now shown in the File menu.
• Conjugation/Declension rules can now be copied/pasted! This was a much requested feature!
• Saving wildly sped up. Takes a fraction of a second, where it would take a significant amount of time in priod versions (cached font binaries...).
• Users can now export custom fonts within a PGT file.
• Users can now specify delimiter character when importing from a CSV file.
• Detailed error logs for save/load problems implemented.
• Command + A now correctly selects all on Macs.

Please report any bugs, and as always, suggestions and comments are always welcomed!

Language Construction Toolkit: PolyGlot 0.9.9.1

This updates adds some minor bugfixes and the code necessary to allow me to wrap PolyGlot for PCs and Macs natively. Icons, file association, installers/uninstallers, and all the rest of the icing that you would expect from a modern program included.

I've included an OSX download, a PC download, and the Jar file. Some versions of OSX seem to have trouble validating my app file for some reason. The jar file should still work correctly, even if the app doesn't. (looking into that for future releases)

The EXE file is for Windows, the DMG file is for OSX, and the ZIP file has no OS integration, but should run on all Java enabled platforms.