From alex at pressure.to Fri Nov 2 10:01:18 2007 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:01:18 +0000 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <4728F55C.1050404@vista.se> References: <4728F55C.1050404@vista.se> Message-ID: <472B2DAE.5020807@pressure.to> Hi Magnus Magnus Larsson wrote: > Alex, what is the timeline for the next version of weft? I am asking as > I am moving into analysis phase with a rather big empirical material... > And would gladly help with testing on Ubuntu. > It's hard to be sure. It depends on other commitments - I have had more time recently, but am starting on some new fieldwork soon. There won't be a finished version before 2008, as there's some needed updates to Ruby that won't be ready before then. But I hope we could have an interim testing version before the end of the year. best alex From grizzou at gmail.com Mon Nov 19 21:28:05 2007 From: grizzou at gmail.com (grizzou) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:28:05 -0500 Subject: [Weft QDA users] New user, new ressource Message-ID: <2c31f7f50711191828r77e1ccd9qc5b8b302858ce41e@mail.gmail.com> Hello, I'm still use Weft-QDA for teaching qualitative data analysis with using CAQDAS. That's a great soft and I'm happy to join the community today. Well I just want to say there is some new informations on weft-qda for the french peaples (maybe to put on the web site). First, there is an article on the great site of Framasoft ( http://www.framasoft.net/). Just take a look in the part of the site and you will find the article. Second, I just post 7 video tutorials on my web site (see the site http://www.sitedudragon.net/). A friend give me the permission to put it on the web. They are all in french to, so there is an other place where we can show how to use the soft... Hope that can help somebody thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20071119/04155503/attachment.html From lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk Thu Nov 29 13:53:37 2007 From: lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk (Lindsay Stirton (Dr)) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:53:37 +0000 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft Feature Requests and Bug Report. Message-ID: <1196362417.7930.77.camel@ljs-desktop> Dear Weft Users, After a day or so having upgraded from NVivo 2 to Nvivo 7 I got fed up with various things, mainly feature bloat, and the apparent lack of anything resembling the old speed coder. In a fit of pique, I have installed Weft QDA and am now quite myself again. Nice package! More than anything, it feels just right. I have been using it for about a day, now, although I used it for teaching in the past (I don't believe in demonstrating to students software that is too expensive for me to expect them to install on their own computers). I gather that the philosophy behind Weft is to keep it's features pared down to the bare bones, but the addition of the following would be really helpful and would, with one exception, not compromise on this philosophy. 1. Make texts editable within the document text window. This would be nice for a number of reasons, not least of which because the text importer is not perfect. 2. Enable hyperlinking between documents would be nice. This is the one feature that might compromise a little on the 'back to basics' philosophy of Weft. 3. Enable auto-save (especially important in light of the bug no. 1 reported below). 4. Enable expanding of the area to be marked/coded using Crl and arrow keys. 5. Enable cut, copy and paste from documents and from categories. 6. It would be nice (really nice) if the review coding view could be exported as a .csv or similar. I see from Alex's website that a version 2 is due real soon now. It may be that some or all of the issues listed below will be taken care of in this new release. I also know that Alex doesn't have unlimited time to devote to this project. I am posting these mainly in the hope that they will be of some use to Alex and any other developers. Now, the following bugs. I installed the latest Weft onto Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon), which I am running as a virtual machine using VMWare Server. 1. Re-naming a node caused Weft to crash. 2. Importing documents from .pdf produced blank documents! I had converted the document to .pdf myself, and there was no security restrictions on them. Best wishes (and thanks for a really usable programme). Lindsay Stirton ========================================================================= Dr Lindsay Stirton lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk Department of Law T 0161 275 3584 +44 161 275 3584 University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom ========================================================================= -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20071129/8a562488/attachment.bin From grizzou at gmail.com Fri Nov 30 08:55:53 2007 From: grizzou at gmail.com (grizzou) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:55:53 -0500 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft Feature Requests and Bug Report. In-Reply-To: <1196362417.7930.77.camel@ljs-desktop> References: <1196362417.7930.77.camel@ljs-desktop> Message-ID: <2c31f7f50711300555t1db401aam32fc9d63ed720f76@mail.gmail.com> Hello everybody, I still use ubuntu to (Feisty) and I can confirm the instability for some fonctions when I use it with wine emulator. The modification proposed by Lindsay can help a lot whent teaching using Weft in qualitative data analysis with master students (many prefere to use NVivo because of the number of fonctions). I can report an other problem I receive yesterday from a student. We use Weft to codify interview realised in french (from Qu?bec/Canada) and she got a problem with the specific accents (?, ?, ?, ?, etc.). I found a basic solution just by changing the font style in Weft QDA (Times New Roman seems to do the job). That was a similarly solution I found when using NVivo 2. Mabe it could be a good idea to identify all the font a user can choose to view the french caracteres. But this problems give me an idea. Did it can be an idea to develop a wiki or something like that to propose an active documentation, open for modifications? Have a good day Jean-Fran?ois Dragon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20071130/da91f957/attachment.html From lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk Fri Nov 30 09:20:14 2007 From: lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk (Lindsay Stirton (Dr)) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:20:14 +0000 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft Feature Requests and Bug Report. Message-ID: <1196432414.7816.28.camel@ljs-desktop> Hi all, Just to clarify (following Grizzou's post). I am not using the Weft for Windows. Rather, I followed Christophe Lejeune's instructions for building Weft on Debian (and can confirm these work fine on Ubuntu). 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