Was a major upgrade adding the following new features and capabilities:

Graphics & Sound!! - You can now include .BMP files (graphics) and .WAV files (sound) as integral components in your Q&A files. Multimedia has made it to the realm of flashcards!!

Frequency Based On History Mode - This new operating mode keeps a record of the user's performance on each Q&A pair within the Q&A file and categorizes each Question as Unlearned, Short Term Learned or Long Term Learned. Thresholds in time and number of correct responses for promoting a Q&A pair to the next level are user configurable.

WinFlash Q&A pairs can now be created using any available Windows font. Color is also supported. Now you can use the REAL national alphabets for your foreign language studies!

New Q&A files may be created from within WinFlash using the NotePad editor and the current Q&A file may be edited on the fly for easy rephrasing, typo correction and clarification of Q&A files while they are being used.

Background colors are now independently settable for the WinFlash main window, Question dialog and Answer dialog.

Statistics on the current Q&A file are now available by selecting the File|File Statistics... menu item.  This selection also allows screening of the current Q&A file for gaps in the sequence of Q&A numbers.

A regular textual Q or A can be displayed concurrently with the playing of an audio Q or A.

Improved formatting capabilities have been added. Hard carriage returns and centering are now available for improving the looks of your Q&A files. The new Qn= and An= format also provides for a much more readable Q&A file and the MaxQuestion entry is no longer required (a user chided me regarding having to tell the computer how many Questions there were in the file).

To assist students who are using files prepared by teachers or other third parties in their studies, it is now possible to copy the Question, Answer or both to the Windows clipboard for disposition as the student wishes (perhaps to compile a list of "need to study" Questions for further evaluation).

Number of Q&A pairs allowed within a Q&A file has been increased to 300.

A new database structure has been developed that stores the following information for each Q&A pair on  a corresponding data line added to the end of the Q&A file:

 - Date of last "promotional" event in Ask Frequency Based On History Mode

 - Number of correct responses during the current day

 - The number of correct responses since the creation of the Q&A pair

 - Number of incorrect responses during the current day

 - Number of incorrect responses since the creation of the Q&A pair

 - Number of days that the number of correct responses needed to promote a Q&A pair form Short Term Learned to Long Term Learned has been achieved

 - The current status of the Q&A pair: 0 = Unlearned; 1 = Short Term        Learned; 2 = Long Term Learned

 - Membership on the Priority List (adds 1 to entry) and Disabled status (adds 2 to entry)

Registration validation has been simplified by adding a dialog accessible from the Register Now selection which allows direct entry of the Name and Registration Number of the user.

New One Pass feature in Ask All Questions Equally Often mode which keeps track of each pass through the Q&A files.  After each Question has been asked once, it is temporarily disabled until each Question has been asked one time.  At this point the user is given a choice of continuing or closing the current Q&A file.

New Numerical feature in Ask All Questions Equally Often mode which presents the Q&A pairs to the user in numerical order, rather than the normal random sequence.  This option can be used in combination with the One Pass option, giving a mode where each Question is asked once in numerical order.

Liven up your study sessions by working against the clock!  The Display Answer After _ Seconds check box selection in the Q&A Mode dialog box gives the user up to 60 seconds to come up with the Answer, after which it automatically displays the Answer.

Greatly improved ability to operate the program from the keyboard for those who prefer this method of interaction to using the mouse.  All standard accelerators are now supported.

New Q&A file format improves readability of the Q&A file and provides enhanced statistical capabilities.  An automatic conversion program, FlashCon, for older Q&A files is available as a registration bonus to registered users.

Improved tolerance to out of bounds operational conditions - for instance, selecting Frequency Based On Priority List Mode when there are no Questions on the Priority List no longer produces an error message. WinFlash merely defaults to using the Ask All Questions Equally Often algorithm until a Question is added to the Priority List.

 

 

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