3.2

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QualCoder 3.2 Release

Binaries are at for:
Windows 10/11: QualCoder-3.2.exe md5sum: 7d31334746649fd7549dbf487090660c
Ubuntu 22: QualCoder-3.2-Ubuntu22 md5sum: 3aff11cacd998fab9b998cf34d78d9c6

Overall - removed dependency on VLC software for audio/video.
So if VLC is not installed you can use coding text and coding images.
Removed reliance on lxml python module. QC will not crash of lxml is not installed. lxml is now only used for xml validation using xsd for REFI-QDA imports and exports. Reason - some python version e.g. 3.11 had problems installing lxml.

Settings

Added stylesheet options for overall look of QualCoder.
Added option to select number of characters before and after, when doing coding reports for coded text in context of the surrounding text.
Added option to highlight the surrounded coded text in bold, italic or larger font.

Bibliography

Import references from .ris or .txt files in the RIS plain text format.

Coding pane in Code Text, Code AV, Code image.
Added options to the show coded files dialog:
These options include adding another code to the coded section, removing the code.

Code text

• Right-click menu option to create and mark selected text with new code.
• Do not clear search text term, when opening a different document.
• Long code or category names are shortened to 50 characters with '..' in the middle. Mouse hover displays the full code name. This was to prevent the codes tree taking over a lot of horizontal screen space.
• Exact text auto-coding. Right-click on the button for options to auto-code all matches, the first match or the last match per file.

Code in context (text only).

The coded text segment can be resized using Alt or Shift and Left and Right arrows to shrink or extend the text segment.

Code Images

The coded image can be exported as an html file. Mouse hover highlights the coding details for each area.

Image rotation

Images in most places can be rotated.
Rotation 180 degrees only in Coding Reports.

Report codes

• Code name results can be ordered by alphabet or by frequency of codes ascending or descending
• When cases selected can now also have codes/categories by file (for the selected cases).

REFI Project import

Improved import of text file text annotations. Required for how Nvivo stores text annotations in the qdpx folder.

Error fixes:

Fixed translations not being recognised in Report Coding matrix combo boxes.

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This discussion was created from the release 3.2.