Feature Wishlist
From Fortis
This page is a list of requests we have had for Fortis development. We believe that many of the requests are good ideas, but are a second priority to the tasks that we are actively working on. We keep these requests here on the "chalk board" to consider for future product development.
- Modeless Concordance Search Dialog
- Button to automatically create filesystem directory structure suitable for keeping various projects in their own directories, and/or to have separate import/export directories.
- It is not clear (to the development team) what is the best directory layout to use with Fortis. What layout would our users prefer?
- Tag settings, and possibly other editor settings to apply simultaneously to both source and target windows.
- This is something we will probably postpone until at least the wiwaxia editor framework is in place.
- Automatically query fuzzy network when cursor moves to a new segment
- The primary concern with doing this is that it could slow down editor operation in general. To do it properly, the queries would go in a separate thread for only that purpose. This is something the brontosaurus infrastructure may be able to accommodate, but will be a moderate sized project.
- Make profile option to automatically refocus to fuzzy window when a proposal is requested. Alternatively, create a hotkey combo from the main editor window to accept a fuzzy proposal without shifting focus. The hotkey could be the same alt+enter combo as to request a proposal, but the second time it is pressed the proposal is accepted.
- Make profile option to have alt+insert skip partial translations when searching for the next segment to advance the cursor to. (#288)
- Updated options for the search/search&replace dialogs:
- Option to allow looping through another iteration of searches.
- Yes to all on replace, even after "confirm" was selected on the original dialog pane.
- Remember a drop-down history of previous search expressions.
- Make terms in dictionary window hyperlink to an external dictionary webpage/application when clicked.
- (#306) Profile setting to customize editor background for blank part of text window after last line of text.
- (#596) word filter to support word art
- (#1038) import/export profile settings
- (#1102) re-launch Fortis after applying update
- (#1189) add fields to entry verification dialog
- (#1058) check all open files with check formatting codes
Functions:
Concordance Search - did not function properly.
Spell Check - It stopped at nearly every sentence beginning, thinking that the letters should not be capitalized.
Menus:
More right-click options - Check Formatting Codes and Enable Write Protection look like good candidates for additions to the right-click menu.
Buttons:
They are too similar. Revised color scheme or design would help to differentiate similar-looking buttons.
Add a Concordance Search button. Redesign the icon for "delete update marks" to be more meaningful.
| Image | Explanation of Image |
|---|---|
| This button looks like the red update marks are being swept away with a broom. This button has been dubbed the most abstract button. It doesn't look like it has much to do with its function. |
| Depicts a main window with a tag in it, and a smaller pop-up dialog that controls the visibility settings for tags. |
| An image of a book, in this case supposed to be a reference dictionary. This button activates Semantis. |
| Replaces the current selection with the replace text from the find & replace dialog. Repeats the previous search. Depicts binoculars for "search" pointing at a red X, the selection that has been found. Black replacement text (letter "B") beside the binoculars has an arrow pointing to the highlighted selection. The red X suggests that the found selection will be removed. |
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- I would love to see our spell checker replaced by hunspell (which is used in OpenOffice and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird). Not only does it have dictionaries for every language, but they are up-to-date. It is also Unicode-based.
- Replace C++ class segment with a procedural C api. When this is done also switch to using char *'s instead of wchar_t *'s. The module functions should be prefixed segment_