WinFlash v5.0 was a major upgrade incorporating the following new features and enhancements.  Both 16- and 32-bit versions are available.    If you're a current WinFlash user, see the note at the end of this topic about using your v3.1 or v4.0 files.

The WYSIWYG  forms-based editor is now resizable and has received many improvements to ease  file creation and editing.  Q&A pairs can now be inserted at any point in the file and deleted from within the editor.  Support for the Charmap applet has been added to make inserting characters not available from the keyboard quick and easy.  A Find capability has also been added.

Printing has been greatly improved and expanded.  You can now print single- or double-sided flashcards in sizes from one per sheet (single-sided fold-over; 1/2 sheet size) to six per sheet (double-sided, 1/6 sheet size).  Cards can include the graphics or be printed as text-only (much faster).  Q&A pairs can also be printed out in tabular format.  Any sub-set of Q&A pairs that can be selected for study use can also be selected for printing.

Graphic file format support has been expanded to include the popular BMP,CMS, ICO,GIF,JPG,PCX, PNG, SCM and WMF file types.  Scaling can also be disabled if it is desired to display the graphics at a fixed size.

  Note : Due to the conditions of our license with Unisys, the GIF capability in the unregistered mode is limited to displaying one .GIF image per WinFlash session.

Audio and Video file format support has been expanded to include the popular AVI and MOV video file types and the WAV, RMI and MID audio file types.

files may now contain up to 100 different Categories!

 

Q&A pair order and sequencing have been made much more flexible.  Numeric/Random, Forward/Reverse, Answer First, One Pass/Continuous, Named and Numeric Ranges can all be used in combination.  Also, 0 and 100 percent are now allowable entries for the various frequency settings.  The random pick mode has been further refined by making sure there are no repeat picks from each "bucket" (say Priority and Non-Priority Q&A pairs) until all Q&A pairs in the "bucket" have been asked.

 

Remaining unasked Q&A pairs in the current pass is now displayed on the status bar.

 

A Resume feature has been added, allowing the session to be continued from the point at which it was last closed.

 

Question and Answer window sizes and positions can be synchronized to match perfectly, if desired.

 

Fill-in-the-blank mode can now be used bidirectionally (i.e. Answer first), greatly enhancing the program's effectiveness  for language vocabulary study and other one-to-one matching applications.

 

Individual Q&A pairs may now be removed from the priority list or the disabled list without resetting the entire list.

   

The number of disabled Q&A pairs and priority Q&A pairs has been added to Statistics.

 

The messages announcing Q&A pair promotion in Frequency Based On History mode can now be timed (disappear automatically) or suppressed altogether - the color of the Q&A pair number in the status bar tells the Q&A pair's status.  V4.0 mode is also still available for those who prefer it.

 

Most recently used file pick list has been expanded to hold up to 9 files.

   

Go To Pair function added to jump to a given Q&A pair number.

 

Note: Old v3.1 .FLU files will work just fine with v5.0.  Simply open them with the new program and the new .FLD file will be automatically created the first time you open the file in v5.0.  If you are sure you will have no need to use the file again in v3.1, you may strip the non-Q/A related info from the back of the .FLU file as this is no longer used by WinFlash.  Version v4.0 files are fully compatible with v5.0.

 

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