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QualCoder 3.2 Release

Binaries are for:
Windows 10/11: QualCoder-3.2.exe The md5 checksum is 7d31334746649fd7549dbf487090660c
On first use, Windows will ask you to allow to run QualCoder. This is because it is from an unknown publisher.
It costs a lot of money to get a trusted publisher certificate - so that will not be possible for the foreseeable future.

Ubuntu 22: QualCoder-3.2-Ubuntu22 The md5 checksum is 3aff11cacd998fab9b998cf34d78d9c6

Overall changes

Removed dependency on VLC software for audio/video. (thanks Andrzej)
So if VLC is not installed you can code text and images. You do require VLC for playing and coding audio/video.
Removed reliance on lxml python module. QualCoder will not crash if lxml is not installed. lxml is now only used for xml validation for REFI-QDA imports and exports. Reason: python 3.11, some people 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 coded text in bold, italic or larger font, within the surrounding text.

Bibliography

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

Coding in Code Text, Code AV, Code image.

Added options to the Show coded files window:
These options include adding another code to the coded section, removing the code.
The coded text segment can be resized using Alt or Shift and Left and Right arrows to shrink or extend the text segment.

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.
  • Auto-code with exact text button. Right click on the button to get options of auto-code all text (the default), first match in file, last match in file. Then press the button (left-click) to run the action.

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. Mostly via right-click mouse button menu.

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

There is improved importation of 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.
Nvivo REFI-QDA project import re text annotations
REFI-QDA Codebook importation - typos stopping import, now fixed.

Wiki Manual

https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/wiki

Facebook group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1251478525589873

Windows exe does not start

In some circumstances, you might get a notice that Windows cannot access the device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions.
Suggestions to resolve this are here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/-windows-cannot-access-the-specified-device-path-or-file-error-when-you-try-to-install-update-or-start-a-program-or-file-46361133-47ed-6967-c13e-e75d3cc29657

Alternatively, if none of the suggestions work, install from source code, see github main page for details on installing from source and running using the Command Prompt.

Issues or errors with this release

The Ubuntu executable does not work with vlc for audio/video on all computers. So if you get a message like this 'WARNING qualcoder.manage_files.view_av 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'media_player_new''
The only solution is to install from the source code and not use the executable.

macOS there is an issue with playing audio/video so Audio/Video may not be usable with QualCoder.

View charts - Select Attributes button to filter files for charts error

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