Alchemy CATALYST 11.0 Release Notes

Build 112197 - SP2

New Features:

• In order to identify usage patterns, the sending of anonymous usage statistics has now been implemented as a new feature in Catalyst. The data received will be used as a guide for focusing on the development of useful new features and enhancement of existing functionality. Users may opt out of participating by unchecking the checkbox File | Options | Send anonymous usage statistics to Alchemy.
• Proxy settings can now be configured via the Catalyst UI, see File | Options | Online Services.

Enhancements:

• Insertion of a resx file now completes where referenced files such as images are not present on disk.
• Where size and location attributes are missing in pre .Net Framework version 4 resx files, visual view has now been improved.
• ezScript
• Checkout of a license from ANLM was not always retaining the license, this is now addressed.
• Improvement of insertion of .Net assemblies where the assembly source code attempts to change a visual property at application level while Catalyst runs in a non-visual mode.
• For XLIFF files the segmentation options for on and off are now governed by the Segmentation Options Sentence based parsing and Paragraph based parsing.
• Improvements in parsing and processing documentation files implemented.
• Improvements to Term Harvest added.

Bug Fixes:

• An issue preventing leverage of some XLIFF segments with Max Length restrictions resolved.
• The last release introduced an issue where Interactive Fuzzy Leverage edits were not saved, this is now resolved.
• Version resource data missing on some Win32 binary files after Swap Languages and Extract - fixed.
• Glossary Term on occasion added to source string - fixed.
• Icons on the Interactive Alignment dialog were incorrect, this has been amended.
• Run Validate Expert - Spellcheck test - Mark validation errors on, user not asked to save ttk after closing it - fixed.
• Documentation files - memos at file level now saved.
• Occasionally a crash would occur when deleting files/resx files from an unsaved TTK - this has been addressed.
• Inserting all Files from a folder via ezScript resulting in a crash on some unknown file types - fixed.
• Some filetypes did not have an option to Rename or Delete on the Object menu, now addressed.
• Acrolinx
• Inline tags and keywords cause colour coding to go out of synch.
• Validation errors - when Recycle or Active TM match present in the Reference pane, sometimes necessary to click off and back onto validation errors pane in order to invoke Acrolinx right click menu - resolved.

Build 112186

Enhancements:

• The Acrolinx SDK plugin has been updated to support Acrolinx version 4.2 and is now available for both 32 bit and 64 bit.
• Check for updates - moved to separate thread so that it does not delay Catalyst start-up.
• ezScript
• File by File Analysis Log breakdown when within the TTK file using /verbose switch. See ezScript.chm | Analysis Expert for further information.
• Find and Replace can now be carried out in ezScript. See ezScript.chm | Find and Replace for further information.
• Change Dialog Font feature - can now change font of all exe/dlls in a ttk using /all switch. See ezScript.chm | Change Dialog Font for further information.
• If analysispackage.properties file is present in user's public folder it will be used when inserting doc format files. This file can be used to set specific include/exclude parsing options. Please contact our Support Team for further information.
• Increased the size of the exceptions frame in File | Options | Segmentation.

Bug Fixes:

• BAML Resources
• Keywords and locks are no longer applied to BAML properties.
• Find & Replace on BAML properties now marks the resource For Review and respects Locked status.
• Find & Replace on BAML properties no longer displays the property in the string list for edit.
• Find in IDs for BAML resources did not find string ids with extension, e.g. "Something.Text" - Resolved.
• Leverage on doc format files now takes place if "Only change status if source and target differ" option is on.
• Google Translate MT not functioning due to change to Google URL - resolved.
• Issue extracting pptx with a specific hyperlink type - fixed.
• Unable to load pseudo expansion settings with ezScript - fixed.
• Analysis Log - Segment Count Total present on 1st files but missing again until Summary total - fixed.

Build 112173

New Features:

• HunSpell dictionaries are now incorporated as internal dictionaries in Catalyst for both 32 bit and 64 bit editions. The old format Polar dictionaries will no longer be present. You can customise your required dictionary languages during installation or install the defaults.
• ContextLink is now available for reading and writing in both the COM and the Event API. The user can now also update ContextLink from validation and pseudo-translation plugins.

Enhancements:

• Spellchecking is now triggered by word delimiters when Check spelling as you type is checked in File | Options | Spell Check.
• The Acrolinx SDK plugin updated to version 4.2, which is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit. Please contact our Support Team for further information.
• Support for Android APK files has been updated.
• COM API help file (SDKGuide.chm) updated with all SDK information.
• Microsoft MT and KantanMT Connectors now supported.
• ezScript
• Leverage Expert - it is now possible to use a Machine Translation connection string for Leverage.
• It is now possible to export and import Object Types to .ini file for Pseudo Translate, Leverage and Validate Experts. Please see ezScript.chm ("User Profiles" section) for more information.

Bug Fixes:

• Single "&" character now treated correctly in BAML resources rather than being interpreted as a hotkey.
• "Server busy" error on closing some WPF TTKs - fixed.
• ActiveTM and MT Connections - Double click on connection string now invokes the connection dialog, allowing any edits.
• After clicking on a Results pane link and using the Revert or Freeze feature in the Navigator pane, the user would have been brought to the project root folder. The user's location is now maintained.
• If a memo was more than 3 lines long, the memo was not displayed once you click out of the string - resolved.
• Not able to create memos for XML at file level - fixed.
• HTML Support
• Order of HTML attributes in the string list improved, it is now easier to relate attributes to parent elements.
• After leveraging the majority of translated tag attributes did not have a translation status - fixed.
• Occasionally there was incorrect tag placement in HTML extraction on strings with keywords, this is now resolved.
• Occasionally inline tags were not displaying in the Translation field in Workspace - addressed.
• Update Expert - it is now possible to copy path of file to be updated rather than navigating directly to it.
• Export to XLIFF did not include BAML max lengths and context links - resolved.
• Right to Left Support
• Right to Left text is now displayed correctly in the string list.
• Right to Left direction now used for relevant Source/Target Languages in the Translator Toolbar based on the Source and Target language set for the TTK.
• Max length now correctly assessed and displayed for RTL text.
• CHM/HTML files - RTL property written into the "HTML" or "BODY" tag and can be seen when visualising a HTML file in Visual View.
• Validate Expert
• Validation of clipped text in dialogs improved due to font calculations optimisation.
• Differences in results when default Windows font changed - this has been resolved.
• Ignore signed off segments option now respected for clipped text in dialogs test.

Build 111145

Enhancements:

• Glossary matches - the source glossary name for a term match is now displayed. The full path to the glossary can be seen by hovering over the glossary icon.
• Support for Astoria DITA and DITAMAP XML now included. Please contact our Support Team for further information.
• A TM Penalty can now be set during ezScript for Leverage and Analysis. See ezScript.chm for the syntax for this setting.

Bug Fixes:

• Issue causing multiple registry entries when the COM API was used now addressed.
• XML - colons and other valid characters in attribute names now recognised when creating conditional parsing rules.
• Tag handling on Leverage into an XLIFF file now implemented.
• Renaming a documentation file within a TTK was causing extraction issues, this is now resolved.
• Empty curly brackets causing an error on insert of Json file - fixed.
• HTML - attributes were not being displayed with their parent elements on changing filters, this has been addressed.
• Scheduler - issue when trying to close Office SpellChecker instances addressed.
• Revert All on XML leaves memo icons (no memo content) - fixed.
• Properties window size now saved to the registry and maintained on restarting Catalyst.
• Update Expert - Unhandled exception when updating a file which was inserted with one rule type, but now being updated with another rule - resolved.
• During extraction of .NET binaries at a folder level when a BAML resource was followed by a Winform resource this resulted in some extra incorrect resources ending up in some satellite assemblies - resolved.
• Extracting a file with a name longer than 64 characters for a second time to the same location was pre-appending the name with a partial value stored in the registry - resolved.

Build 111132 SP1

Enhancements:

• Export to XLIFF - Inline tags are formatted correctly and the outputted file passes XLIFF validation tests.
• XML files with UTF-16 encoding are now correctly supported in XML Visual View.

Bug Fixes:

• Some memory leaks after closing a TTK file specific to DDF files have been identified and fixed.
• ezType - ezType completes translations although not enabled - fixed.
• ezType - CTRL+Shift+S caused text to be added by ezType when enabled - now fixed to just apply Sign-off status.

Build 110127

Enhancements:

• GDI Object Leaks which were causing instability issues have been detected and resolved.
• Memory now released on changing or discarding string list.

Bug Fixes:

• Focus on dialog resource in Navigator windows lost in Visual View meaning that dialog resizing could not take place using the keyboard - resolved.
• Special characters in string IDs not converted to XML character references in XLIFF export - resolved.
• Word Doc - Catalyst now correctly handles Hyperlinks in Doc file formats.
• Stability issue addressed where Auto Translate launched while Office Spellchecker enabled and Automatic Validation active.
• Issue when deleting sets of multiple files consecutively from the Navigator fixed.
• Insert files and folders or drag and drop files into a .ttk file - correct file encoding now read.
• Update Expert only updating XLIFF files correctly if they had the extension *.txlf - now fixed.
• The Status column in the Navigator pane now maintains consistency with resource type statuses.
• Memos now exported to glossary for BAML resources and Find & Replace in memos on BAML also implemented.
• Memos were not being reverted for some filetypes - resolved.
• Strings with line feeds - Space Markers on - insert inline tags no longer causes preceding tags to move position.
• Validate Expert - Mark validation errors now implemented for Inconsistent Keywords test and on all tests performed on Ribbon resource types.
• Validate Expert - now reports when Menu accelerator resource types contain Inconsistent Keywords.

Build 110117

Enhancements:

• Validate Expert results are now written to the results pane after processing each file or resource group, speeding up processing time.
• Accelerator Keys for the Export to XLIFF and Import from XLIFF options added.
• Error message now output to the results pane on importing XLIFF from child ttks created by Project Division Expert into parent ttk.

Bug Fixes:

• In the Validate Expert for the test Inconsistent Keywords the result hyperlinks for .NET resources was not scrolling the string into view and edits made in Translator Toolbar were not saved; this is resolved.
• Win32 binary files - PNG and Ribbon resources - issues relating to insertion and extraction resolved.
• Importing .ini file resulting in duplicated file lists in Leverage Expert TMs, Active TM and Term Sources; this is resolved.
• Issue where the length of string changed by 1 when the Max Size was applied; this is resolved.
• Deleting unused build references in build 110112 caused Leverage from .tm in Catalyst x64 to stall; this is resolved.

Build 110112

Enhancements:

• Improvements in processing time for Find and Replace and Apply Keywords/Locks operations in the UI implemented.
• Additional information provided in ezScript.chm and SDK11.chm

Bug Fixes:

• The SDK 11 is now updated to fully register the COM interface in the registry.
• Keywords now correctly displayed on strings containing line feeds.
• An issue with a particular string in a HTML script not being extracted correctly has been resolved.
• Filename entry field in the Update Expert's Select Files dialog now present.
• TMX as Active TM - parsing information text in status bar corrected.