An updated version of Plant Base has been released and is available on the Download page. This is for desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It is another maintenance update with a few small bug fixes plus some other little changes.
Plant Base – new version 2.1.13
New update of Plant Base was released today and is available on the Download page. For all desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
This is only a minor maintenance update with a few small bug fixes and other minor changes. For the Windows edition this includes support for the recently released update of Extra Keys.
Version updates of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro
New version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.4) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.6) are now available for download.
The most noticeable change is that the key panel window no longer gets the desktop focus when a button or other control is clicked. This means that the active window does not change, which is most likely the target application for entering a character with Extra Keys. It prevents the annoying focus switching between Extra Keys and the target window, especially apparent when entering multiple characters.
Updates for Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro
There are new version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.3) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.5).
These are maintenance releases only and are otherwise the same as the previous recent versions. However, they have some modifications that may help resolve a problem where the keys window fails to open on a few Windows 10 systems. Not all systems were affected and the exact cause for this happening only on particular machines is somewhat uncertain. The new versions include multiple checks and run-time compensations to provide improved resilience.
New versions of Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro
Our popular Windows desktop Extra Keys and the similar Pro edition both have new versions – 2.2.2 and 2.2.4 respectively.
Two new key sets have been added, both in the Latin character range – Austronesian and Esperanto. Austronesian covers a very wide range of indigenous languages spread across the the Pacific and the islands of Australasia. So it is now easy to correctly write words from Māori, other Polynesian languages and useful when transcribing words for example from the Australian Aṉangu such as Uluṟu and Kata Tjuṯa. Esperanto is a bit unusual because it uses accented characters not common in other languages and also does not naturally fit in with any other grouping. So it has therefore been given its own very small key-set which might be handy for the many Esperantistoj around the world.
Extra Keys Pro is now Free
From version 2.2.4 Extra Keys Pro is freeware! – exactly like the standard Extra Keys tool for entering accents and other characters. It was previously only available on payment of a small fee but with this new version the licence code authentication has been completely removed.
Plant Base for Linux – new Beta 9 update
There is an updated Linux program for Plant Base – Beta 9, which is still based on version 2.1.12. It’s now available on the Downloads page.
There are no functional changes but many small adjustments to the user interface. These are mainly to improve compatibility with a wider range of Desktop Environments and display themes.
Plant Base – new version 2.1.12
New update of Plant Base was released today and is available on the Download page. This is for all desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It is another maintenance release with some bug fixes and small changes for the user interface. Probably the most notable changes are a much improved method to enter multiple common names or synonyms when adding or editing a plant record and also a very small but handy feature of the colour selector tool window, allowing a simple double-click on the required colour.
Plant Base for Linux – Beta 7 update
Beta 7 of Plant Base for Linux is released and available for download. This a minor update still based on version 2.1.11
It fixes for a few late-breaking bugs that only occurred in the Beta 6 release. Almost all are related to situations where pictures are resized to fit on the screen and the problems were due to small issues with the latest version of the build software that is used to generate the program. There are no other significant changes since Beta 6.
Plant Base – new version 2.1.11
A new update of Plant Base for desktop/laptop systems is available for download today. This covers all editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It is essentially a maintenance release with some bug fixes plus a few small changes for the user interface.