Alchemy CATALYST 12.0 Release Notes

Build 121166 SP2

New Features:

• Term Harvest is available for a Translator Professional Edition of Catalyst.

Enhancements:

• Comparison Expert
• Has been extended to also compare .NET DLL files and map matching resources accordingly in the Active TTK file against the comparison version.
• Segments with text differences highlight only the changed text, where previously Catalyst highlighted the entire string in the translator toolbar.
• Items in the Comparison Results pane are clickable. The user is brought to the corresponding item in the resource type.
• A new customizable color named Comparison mode is added to the user profile in FILE > Options > Color page. This is used to change the appearance of the UI when performing a comparison to distinguish it from the default UI.
• The Project Comparison window has a new position beside the Navigator window. If you performed an upgrade installation you will need to click on Restore Defaults of the Windows Positions in the FILE > Options > User Profile. The window's position is read from the file CatalystPanes.xml which has been copied to the Catalyst public folder location.
• Change the string list from Original to Target while in Comparison Mode to see the differences in the alternative Source/Target without needing to redo the comparison.
• When comparing Translated text, it is possible to Copy Text to left, Copy Text and Status to left or Copy Text and Coordinates.
• While in Comparison Mode the string list and the Translator Toolbar are reactive to the Increase and Decrease Font buttons.
• While in Comparison Mode, if Visual View was the enabled view Catalyst reverts to the String View mode.
• The content of Memos are compared can be seen with an icon in the Comparison mode string list with a hover to display the content.
• File Support
• Raw cursor files with a .cur extension and cursor files compiled in a .NET file are parsed and rendered in Catalyst like an Icon file.
• Modified and new Memos within Resx files are extracted into the translated resx file.
• Multilingual EXE/DLL files output the languages found within that file to the results window when you click on the file name in the Navigator tree.
• Glossaries & Dictionaries
• New option for Glossary matching: Use advanced glossary validation. Enabled, glossary matches and the glossary validation checks will operate flexibly. Catalyst will match glossary entries intelligently, looking past differences in articles, prepositions or plurality. The enhancements are currently for French, German, Italian and Spanish but can be extended if you send the support team some sample files for other languages.
• Microsoft Spellcheck support for Office 2016 added - we now try to load the Office dictionary through the Microsoft API.
• Filters
• Each opened TTK file can use a different filter independently. The filter selected in the last TTK project closed becomes the default filter opening new TTK projects.
• Inconsistent filters are also governed by Inconsistent Source/Target Check Options from the Validate Expert options. If you change the options you must refresh your filter view for the settings to be applied to the string list.
• Sort by selection/column is maintained after changing filter.
• New keyboard accelerator shortcut: CTRL+H. Enables/disables the Toggle Space Marker option in the Translation Toolbar.

Bug Fixes:

• Validate Expert
• Improvements to Automatic Validation which reports any validation errors on entry into the segment when option Automatic Validation is enabled.
• The Consistent Pattern Tests validation now adheres to the setting Ignore error if present in source when enabled.
• Overlapping controls and duplicate hotkeys errors were not displayed in the Validation Errors under the Translator toolbar for the resx files - resolved.
• Overlapping controls errors between static controls and text elements in visual view would lose the focus in the Visual/Split View - resolved.
• Improved the reporting when the segment is not in the current filter while a user clicks on overlapping controls errors in the Results window.
• The files used in the Batch of Files tab are stored and remembered for the next operation.
• Improvements to when cases of % should not be treated as a printf format specifier e.g. (%), 0.5%, %,, %: and also some additional recognition for longer than one character format specifiers e.g. %1f.
• Leverage Expert
• When leveraging from a Text file TM, leading and trailing spaces were being stripped when loading the TM which meant that strings with leading or trailing spaces were being leveraged as fuzzy match instead of 100% - resolved.
• There is a new leverage setting for Advanced Options, Do not treat case differences as Fuzzy which will treat case differences as Leveraged instead of Fuzzy.
• Extended WPF Properties in BAML were sometimes not being leveraged e.g. Language, Flow Direction and Font Size - resolved.
• Keywords present in source in TM but not in the new source to leverage into were being given a Leveraged status and the keyword was also being maintained - this is now accordingly set to Fuzzy and the keyword stripped.
• Set max size % on strings, leverage from ttk with different max size %, original setting overwritten by leverage - resolved.
• Comparison Expert
• Comparing BAML files results in an infinite loop due to trying to compare the WPF extended properties - resolved.
• Opening and closing another ttk wipes out the Comparison Expert results on a ttk from the Project Comparison toolbar - resolved.
• Additions to Project TTK were incorrectly showing the Deletions from Project TTK - opposite to the options selected - resolved.
• Catalyst Licensing
• Subscription Licensing - Warning notification now appears within the Results window when the license is within 90 days of expiring.
• When a license has expired, the dates can now be seen in the About box.
• File Support
• When extracting the APK file, a log file is now saved into the output directory with the name of .apk.log. If there are any issues recompiling the APK file, this will help users debug the issue.
• PseudoTranslate and validation for Inconsistent source/targets no longer report errors in APK files when it is not appropriate for the current Target language.
• Android Signing - Browsing to the JDK path now appends a slash into the path when necessary.
• Consistency with icons when the .NET message Failed to load from project file appears in the Results window. Previously there were inconsistent icons due to 2 different code paths - now both appear with a warning instead of one warning and one error.
• Icon files within a Visual Studio Project are now rendered with the Icon Image viewer instead of the default Image viewer.
• When the Manually created: message appears on a .NET Form, it is only reported now once per Form to the Results window.
• Revert for Proportional Size for XML or JSON files was not being reverted - resolved.
• Improvements made to speed up the time to save the TTK history and also improved the overall size of the SQL Lite DB contained within the TTK file.
• ezScript
• If a PDF file failed to extract the error code remained at 0. This has now been updated accordingly to 5.
• When performing leverages the TM(s) being leveraged are now listed in the ezScript log file.
• There is now a configurable time delay in the registry to allow users to delay the time even further if the /open switch is still not opening the file post an ezScript task. If you need to change this key update the value found at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alchemy\Alchemy Catalyst 12.0\General\DelayOnBatchOpenLogFile which is expressed in milliseconds (1000 = 1 second).
• User Interface
• Cannot use Ctrl+Right/Left arrows to move through the segment when Toggle Space Markers is on - resolved.
• Spell Suggestion dialog was stripping the hotkey completely from the translation - resolved.
• In the Text ezParse dialog, you could not uncheck the Segments have IDs option in a text parsing rule - resolved.
• Term Harvest - Sometimes files were being duplicated in the UI/Registry - resolved.
• Term Harvest - When generating a termbase before creating any candidates list, followed by a Cancel, almost everything was disabled, including the closing of the window - resolved.
• Other
• PowerTranslate option Translate All - the TM hit for next duplicate string is now shown once the Translate All task has finished.
• Navigator - File View - The sorting of the file names in this view is no longer case specific.
• Crash Report Investigation
• Crash on Visual View of a specific .NET Form which was also trying to load an image - resolved.

Build 121147

New Features:

• Validate Expert now has 2 new tests for Inconsistent Translated and Inconsistent Source. Ignore configuration settings exist behind the tests to limit the number of false positives.

Enhancements:

• Updated the installed version of the Android apktool to the current latest version 2.2.2.
• When performing a Spell Check, you can now select multiple segments and those selected segments will be validated for spelling errors.
• Duplicates filter now also presents the results in alternating colouring in the string list like the Inconsistent filters.
• New checkbox option in the Validate Expert test, Inconsistent Inline Tags check to include the tag sequence order when performing the test.
• RoboHelp files extension types HTS and GLO added to the HTML files group.

Bug Fixes:

• Validate Expert
• Improvements to the reporting of clipped text on large DPI settings with large resolutions screens.
• Validate Expert no longer flags strings that wrap onto a second line as an error when there is plenty of room in the height for the wrapped text.
• When a segment has been marked with a validation error, the Validation Errors tab in Translator Toolbar now populates the error on entry into the segment.
• Layout Manager Expert
• Dialog is much larger than necessary - X coordinate value of aligned controls not maintained - fixed.
• Now maintains the alignment of buttons and text boxes post resizing of the dialog.
• Layout tasks via the Layout Manager or Size control to content for non 1252 local pages now uses the target language of the TTK when performing the layout.
• Layout Manager resulted in a Crash on a specific .NET TTK due to Stack overflow - fixed.
• ezScript
• With newer versions of Windows the /open parameter sometimes did not open the log file in Catalyst - fixed.
• Removed the ezScript exit code of 4 when a ResX file that has no content was being inserted into a TTK.
• Zip file insertion did not adhere to the declared ezParse rule - fixed.
• ezScript reports on TTK include a .zip file fail and cause a crash.
• /CAT_RENAME did not work if file to be renamed was contained within a zip file - fixed.
• /GetFileNames did not iterate through the Zip file and list the files within - fixed.
• Leverage Expert
• Non ID-based leverage match choose a Locked segment as the match but didn't leverage it - Leverage now proceeds to next best fuzzy leverage match.
• File Support
• File name conflict with trying to load a client .NET file called Common.dll. Catalyst was falling back to our installation directory to find the client file which also has a Common.dll and was loading the wrong file. To avoid this we have renamed our own file to CatCommon.dll.
• Crash on extraction of csproj file which referenced a file within another directory - fixed.
• Referenced files within a csproj project inserted at the incorrect folder location within the TTK - fixed.
• Renaming an unparsed file in a TTK file did not save the new name into the TTK - fixed.
• ' in htm files correctly parsed and no longer breaks segmentation.
• Documentation format files within Android APK files or Madcap Flprj projects are no longer parsed.
• Server Busy error in Visual View with a .NET assembly - reproducible only on non-English OS's - resolved.
• Duplicate ID allocated while parsing an RC XLIFF file caused a problem for extraction where the wrong string was extracted into the wrong ID - fixed.
• Catalyst crashed on generating a report when zip file contains subfolders - fixed.
• Crash right clicking buttons in Win32 dialog resources - fixed.
• User Interface
• Navigator indicates fuzzy match status but there are no fuzzy matches in the strong list - resolved.
• Ctrl+Shift+Right/Left arrows when space markers are enabled now allow the correct selection of text.
• Empty workspace and turn off Show document selection - Catalyst still launches new project - fixed.
• Some Keywords not displayed in String list, while others are within the same string - fixed.
• Match % fuzzy match value not removed after reverting string - fixed.
• Cannot scroll all the way to bottom on an extra-long dialog - fixed.
• When aligning files, the file name being aligned is now shown into the Dialog title.
• TBX Glossary created within Term Harvest does not show the context in the memo nodes - fixed.
• Japanese punctuation not recognised when applying keywords - fixed.
• When using the Size control to content option on a button and the button width needs to be enlarged greater than the width of the dialog size available, this was not made know to the user. Now a message appears in the results pane informing the user to resize the dialog manually and try again.
• Translation of the Dialog object no longer appears in the Navigator pane and always remains in the source language.
• Non ID based leverage match chooses a Locked segment as a match but doesn't take it - should proceed to Fuzzy leverage matches.

Build 121139

New Features:

• TableLayoutPanel column and row values within .NET assemblies can now be edited through a new dialog Edit Rows and Values which appears when the user has right clicked on the TableLayoutPanel resource in Visual View.
• It is now possible to use the ezScript command line to submit and retrieve projects to and from GlobalLink Project Director.

Enhancements:

• Experts
• Analysis Expert: the ezScript /verbose option for File-by-File analysis has now also been added to the UI.
• Comparison Expert can now be run on a specific object types and the user can decide whether to run on either the original or translated text.
• ezScript
• Cleanup Expert: Both the Maximum Alchemy TM Segment Count and the option to Remove Graphics from Alchemy Desktop TM can now be set via the User Profile in ezScript.
• The /GetLangs command now outputs the TTK name and the language code of the source and target languages for the TTK file.
• Some overall improvements to the ezScript licensing to make sure if a license is checked out, then the frequency of rechecking the license is limited.
• The Terms pane now supports Context info from the glossary formats in the form of a hover memo icon.
• Microsoft Machine Translation service has updated their connectivity settings and now Catalyst remains in sync with their code update. Further information can be found here.
• When performing an Update from File operation, the file you have selected in the Navigator pane now becomes the title of the Open dialog.
• When 2 or more extensions of the same file type are found in 2 different file groups, Catalyst now reports this to the user.
• Enhancements to Project Director to support partially translated TTKs and more granular language control.
• Visual View of an Icon resource now sorts the order of the icons appearing with the highest to lowest image quality.
• Executables are multi-lingual now refreshes the Navigator pane immediately - no need to close and reopen the TTK file.