New with version 1.5a - 25.7.

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CEDICT database date: July 13, 2008
. (bug fix) fixed a bug in the search of some specific pinyins
. (update) corrected and added more strokes animations (now 3,000!)

New with version 1.5 - 3.6.08

. (bug fix) the 'F10' function was defective. It uses the clipboard and in previous
functions frequently corrupted clipboard contents, and led sometimes to crashes.
Clipboard is now correctly preserved, UNLESS clipboard data is very big (typically
over 2MB), in which case it can be erased.
. (update) more measure words; corrected and added more strokes animations (now
2,860).

New with version 1.4c - 30.5.08

. (improvement) Chinese characters inside definitions now appear in roman (not
italic) for better legibility.
. (improvement/bug fix) Vertical scroll bars in the definitions would not appear
until the mouse hovered over them; stroke animations no longer collide with
definitions.
. (update) more measure words; updated database to CEDICT 25.5.2008; corrected and
added more strokes animations (now 2,830).

New with version 1.4b - 5.5.08

. (bug fix) Fixed a bug which caused pinyin lu:e4 to display improperly.
. (new feature) Added measure word information for some frequently used words
(experimental)
. (update) Updated multi-radical file; updated database to CEDICT 4.5.2008;
corrected and added more strokes animations (now 2,760).

New with version 1.4a - 18.1.08

. (new feature) In the search text, parts between parentheses are ignored. This
allows to use F10 directly from Word on text that has the pinyin transcript in
superscript.
. (update) Updated multi-radical file; updated database to CEDICT 1.1.2008;
corrected and added more strokes animations (now 2,300).

New with version 1.4 - 24.10.07

. (new feature) Multi-radical search.
. (bug fix) Fixed some bugs in the radical list (for radicals ma3-horse and gong3-
joined hands)
. (update) Updated help

New with version 1.3b - 12.10.07

. (new feature) When the user clicks on a character that is pronounced with a
neutral tone, Pablo tries to guess the character's original tone, and displays the
word definition.
. (bug fix) Fixed a bug when the Chinese string contains separators (such as ...
and �). Pablo now correctly displays info about the character on which the user
clicked.
. (bug fix) Searching for a pinyin string containing tone marks (accents) works
again. It was corrupted with v1.3.
. (update) Updated CEDICT database, added some new stroke animations (now 2,100)

New with version 1.3a - 22.8.07

. (new feature) F10 shortcut to call Pablo from any application. Note: can be used
from within Pablo, especially to look up a part of the current Chinese word.
. (bug fix) Fixed a strange behavior when a word was displayed and then the user
performed a search that gave no result (empty result grid). When clicking on
individual characters of the word displayed, character information no longer
showed. That is fixed.
. (bug fix) Changed behavior of the writing pad: drawing is no longer interrupted
when the mouse leaves the boundary of the pad area.
. (bug fix) Small fix in the strokes editor: while drawing a white line, if the
mouse went past the left border, cursor abruptly jumped to the far right. This is
fixed.

New with version 1.3 - 18.8.07

. (bug fix) Fixed completely the bug that caused an application crash when the word
definition was too long.
. (bug fix) Fixed (really) the encoding bug that prevented correct functioning if
Windows was set to an Asian language.

New with version 1.2b - 16.8.07

. (bug fix) Fixed a bug that caused an application crash when the word definition
was over 260 characters long. Now up to 1000 characters are allowed.

New with version 1.2a - 15.8.07

. (bug fix) Added a fix that could possibly allow to run correctly Pablo on
computers that use an Asian version of Windows. I cannot test it myself, feedback
would be appreciated. (update: No, it doesn't work!)

New with version 1.2 - 15.8.07

. (new feature) Double-clicking on the large Chinese characters is now supported.

. (new feature) Double-clicking on Chinese characters in the grid is now supported.
. (new feature) Reviewed, corrected and added a lot of stroke animations-- now over
2,000
. (improvement / bug fix) Improved stroke animation rendering.
. (new feature) When searching for chars 'based on a character', the original
character now also appears (at the top of the list.)
. (new feature) In the grid, words are sorted by alphabetical order of their
pinyin. Among words with the same pinyin, words with highest frequency now appear
first.
. (bug fix) Fixed a bug with the Input box that prevented showing the radical table
in v1.1
. (bug fix) Fixed a bug with the Input box where the scroll bar of the combo box
was missing.
. (update) Updated manual

New with version 1.1 - 8.7.07

. (new feature) Search box is now a combo box, keeping track of the latest
searches.
. (new feature) Popup menu now available when right-clicking a character in the
grid.
. (new feature) Popup menu now available when right-clicking a character in the
recognized character panel.
. (new feature) Double-clicking on a character in the definitions panel looks it up
right away.
. (update) Updated help.
. (new feature) More stroke animations
. (new feature) Added a Flash tutorial.
. (new feature) Added a Flash tutorial for the stroke animation editor.

New with version 1.0c - 21.6.07

. (new feature) Improved interface details

New with Version 1.0b - 11.3.07

. (bug fix) Suppressed warning message at startup if Pablo doesn't find a Chinese
voice installed for speech synthesis.
. (new feature) Search box automatically gets back focus when application gets back
to the front.
. (update) Updated help.
. (new feature) More stroke animations

New with Version 1.0a - 9.3.07

. (new feature) By default, a search string without tone indication is interpreted

as an English translation. However, if no entry is found in the dictionary, then
Pablo searches again, interpreting the search string as a pinyin without tone
marks. (e.g. searching for "zhongguo" gives no result as an English word ->
searches again as if zhong?guo? had been entered).
. (new feature) pressing TAB gives back focus to the search box.
. (new feature) pressing F1 displays help.