From magnus at vista.se Mon Apr 7 04:10:56 2008 From: magnus at vista.se (Magnus Larsson) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:10:56 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? Message-ID: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> Hi! Don't want to rush or put undue pressure on Alex (and as I am not a programmer myself I can only admire the wonders that can be produced by lines of code....) - but: any news on the next version of Weft? I'd be glad to assist with testing if needed. Magnus Larsson From grizzou at gmail.com Mon Apr 7 15:25:35 2008 From: grizzou at gmail.com (grizzou) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:25:35 -0400 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> Message-ID: <2c31f7f50804071225q1957cfbl48df24a074f25088@mail.gmail.com> Hi, I will be glad to do it to... if it can help... Jean-Fran?ois Dragon 2008/4/7 Magnus Larsson : > Hi! > > Don't want to rush or put undue pressure on Alex (and as I am not a > programmer myself I can only admire the wonders that can be produced by > lines of code....) - but: any news on the next version of Weft? I'd be > glad to assist with testing if needed. > > > Magnus Larsson > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080407/b2d3f274/attachment.html From alex at pressure.to Tue Apr 8 11:17:04 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:17:04 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> Message-ID: <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> Hi Magnus Magnus Larsson wrote: > Don't want to rush or put undue pressure on Alex (and as I am not a > programmer myself I can only admire the wonders that can be produced by > lines of code....) - but: any news on the next version of Weft? I'd be > glad to assist with testing if needed. > I think pressure is no bad thing, in moderation.... thanks for your continued interest At the moment, Weft QDA 2 is at a point where I'm considering putting out an early-trial version. It's reached a level of stability and functionality where (I think) you could use it for a real project - importing, reading, coding etc. A lot of the new features are working well: multi-lingual support, document editing, annotations. But - a few old Weft 1 features don't have a user interface yet: queries, code reviews. And it will certainly have some rough edges left. Given this, would it be of interest to have an alpha-release? Or would you rather wait until it at least can do everything that Weft 1 did? best alex From magnus at vista.se Tue Apr 8 12:51:16 2008 From: magnus at vista.se (Magnus Larsson) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:51:16 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> Message-ID: <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> Hi! Sounds great! Spontaneoursly, I'd say an alpha-release would be good. At least to satisfy curiousty. If the feedback would be useful, sure, I'd be fore it, and I can do some alpha-testing. As far as I know, this is the best available option for managing and coding qual data in Linux, so as long as I'm a researcher, I'll continue to be interested... :) Magnus Alex Fenton skrev: > Hi Magnus > > Magnus Larsson wrote: > >> Don't want to rush or put undue pressure on Alex (and as I am not a >> programmer myself I can only admire the wonders that can be produced by >> lines of code....) - but: any news on the next version of Weft? I'd be >> glad to assist with testing if needed. >> >> > I think pressure is no bad thing, in moderation.... thanks for your > continued interest > > At the moment, Weft QDA 2 is at a point where I'm considering putting > out an early-trial version. It's reached a level of stability and > functionality where (I think) you could use it for a real project - > importing, reading, coding etc. A lot of the new features are working > well: multi-lingual support, document editing, annotations. But - a few > old Weft 1 features don't have a user interface yet: queries, code > reviews. And it will certainly have some rough edges left. > > Given this, would it be of interest to have an alpha-release? Or would > you rather wait until it at least can do everything that Weft 1 did? > > best > alex > > > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > From alex at pressure.to Tue Apr 8 15:24:55 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:24:55 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> Message-ID: <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> Magnus Larsson wrote: > Spontaneoursly, I'd say an alpha-release would be good. At least to > satisfy curiousty. If the feedback would be useful, sure, I'd be fore > it, and I can do some alpha-testing. > OK, I think feedback would be useful. I have wanted to have it more polished, but the perfect can be the enemy of the good. It would be useful to know if I have gone wildly wrong. I will look to put a release out in the next few days. At this point, it will probably be source-only on Linux so you may need to install some packages. > As far as I know, this is the best available option for managing and > coding qual data in Linux, so as long as I'm a researcher, I'll continue > to be interested... :) > Great alex From jonathan at imatix.com Tue Apr 8 17:40:47 2008 From: jonathan at imatix.com (Jonathan Schultz) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:40:47 +1200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> Message-ID: <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> > I will look to put a release out in the next few days. At this point, it > will probably be source-only on Linux so you may need to install some > packages. I've been holding off on coding the interviews from my PhD research for the last couple of months so I'm also really looking forward to it and am happy to Alpha test. >> As far as I know, this is the best available option for managing and >> coding qual data in Linux, so as long as I'm a researcher, I'll continue >> to be interested... :) >> > Great I second that! Jonathan From lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk Wed Apr 9 10:38:00 2008 From: lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk (Lindsay Stirton (Dr)) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:38:00 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> Message-ID: <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> I too, have had an interview-based project just waiting to start the analysis when time permits. If I can be a tester I will happily do this. On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:40 +1200, Jonathan Schultz wrote: > > I will look to put a release out in the next few days. At this point, it > > will probably be source-only on Linux so you may need to install some > > packages. > > I've been holding off on coding the interviews from my PhD research for > the last couple of months so I'm also really looking forward to it and > am happy to Alpha test. > > >> As far as I know, this is the best available option for managing and > >> coding qual data in Linux, so as long as I'm a researcher, I'll continue > >> to be interested... :) > >> > > Great > > I second that! > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users From grizzou at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 20:39:39 2008 From: grizzou at gmail.com (grizzou) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:39:39 -0400 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> Message-ID: <2c31f7f50804091739m4a847c92y27fb518a05ca21a1@mail.gmail.com> I can test with French data... Jean-Fran?ois Dragon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080409/a3a5fda0/attachment-0001.html From Jordi.Lopez at uab.es Thu Apr 10 03:59:16 2008 From: Jordi.Lopez at uab.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jordi_L=F3pez?=) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:59:16 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <2c31f7f50804091739m4a847c92y27fb518a05ca21a1@mail.gmail.com> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> <2c31f7f50804091739m4a847c92y27fb518a05ca21a1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <47FDC8D4.8070901@uab.es> I can test with Spanish and Catalan data. Jordi L?pez En/na grizzou ha escrit: > I can test with French data... > > Jean-Fran?ois Dragon > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080410/209c0f47/attachment.html From G.vanGinkel at ils.ru.nl Thu Apr 10 04:56:09 2008 From: G.vanGinkel at ils.ru.nl (G.V.M. Ginkel) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:56:09 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? Message-ID: I've just recently discovered WEFT, but already using it on interviews in an educational evaluation project. Would be willing & able to test version 2 on my PhD interviews as well as the evaluation project, but would prefer to test with the functionalities of the previous version working. Gisbert van Ginkel Medewerker Onderwijsontwikkeling Instituut voor Leraar en School Erasmusgebouw, kamer 20.13 Erasmusplein 1 6525 HT Nijmegen Postadres: Postbus 9103 6525 AJ Nijmegen Email: G.vanGinkel at ils.ru.nl Telnr.: +31 24 36 15863 ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: grizzou Datum: Donderdag, April 10, 2008 2:39 am Onderwerp: Re: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? -------------- next part -------------- I can test with French data... Jean-Fran?ois Dragon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just to note that at this stage I would definitely not recommend testing with any analysis you want to keep. Aside from possible stability issues, it's possible that the file format may change. alex From 042045003 at fudan.edu.cn Wed Apr 16 07:38:36 2008 From: 042045003 at fudan.edu.cn (Ronggui HUANG) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:38:36 +0800 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <47FDDFBB.2060204@pressure.to> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> <47FDDFBB.2060204@pressure.to> Message-ID: <20080416193836.da4b5be1.042045003@fudan.edu.cn> I can test it with Simplified Chinese. On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:36:59 +0100 Alex Fenton wrote: > Thank you all for your positive responses. It will be particularly > useful to test with non-English texts. I will see what I can do this > weekend; hopefully the weather will not be too good. > > Just to note that at this stage I would definitely not recommend testing > with any analysis you want to keep. Aside from possible stability > issues, it's possible that the file format may change. > > alex > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users From alex at pressure.to Wed Apr 16 08:43:49 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:43:49 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <20080416193836.da4b5be1.042045003@fudan.edu.cn> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> <47FDDFBB.2060204@pressure.to> <20080416193836.da4b5be1.042045003@fudan.edu.cn> Message-ID: <4805F485.80406@pressure.to> Ronggui HUANG wrote: > I can test it with Simplified Chinese. > Great, thanks. Just a quick update - I ran into a few problems creating an installer for Windows, but this is now sorted out. Should have some news in a few days alex From diahrk at aon.at Wed Apr 16 09:09:22 2008 From: diahrk at aon.at (Dirk Raith) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:09:22 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Status of Weft 2.0? In-Reply-To: <4805F485.80406@pressure.to> References: <47F9D710.4080800@vista.se> <47FB8C70.10905@pressure.to> <47FBA284.2080200@vista.se> <47FBC687.5020601@pressure.to> <47FBE65F.50305@imatix.com> <1207751880.10271.59.camel@ljs-desktop> <47FDDFBB.2060204@pressure.to> <20080416193836.da4b5be1.042045003@fudan.edu.cn> <4805F485.80406@pressure.to> Message-ID: <1208351362.5359.1.camel@lubuntu> I can help with testing in German regards dirk - dirk raith lindweg 12 8010 graz / +43316722483 / diahrk at aon.at From linquiry at yahoo.com Thu Apr 17 15:32:40 2008 From: linquiry at yahoo.com (Lisa Schwartz) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Weft QDA users] running weft qda on mac with virtual PC Message-ID: <111790.83128.qm@web44811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> can you run weft qda on mac with virtual PC? (this is how nvivo and some others work for the mac). us poor mac users...but i commend the open source effort! best, Lisa Lisa Schwartz Language Reading and Culture University of Arizona ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080417/5df886ab/attachment.html From alex at pressure.to Thu Apr 17 16:52:32 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:52:32 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] running weft qda on mac with virtual PC In-Reply-To: <111790.83128.qm@web44811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <111790.83128.qm@web44811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4807B890.7040802@pressure.to> Hi Lisa Lisa Schwartz wrote: > can you run weft qda on mac with virtual PC? (this is how nvivo and > some others work for the mac). It's not something I have ever tried, but I can't think of any reason that it shouldn't work. > us poor mac users...but i commend the open source effort! In the next few days I'll be releasing a preview version of Weft 2 which will include a native Mac version. It won't be ready for real work - or even work at all - but I'd be grateful if you have some time to try it out and report how you get on. alex From alex at pressure.to Fri Apr 18 03:36:20 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:36:20 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable Message-ID: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> Hi You're warmly invited to try and comment on the first initial preview of Weft QDA 2. == WARNING == This is very much an alpha release. It definitely shouldn't be used for real projects. There's no guarantee that projects will be capable of being opened in future releases. == DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING == http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=665&release_id=21324 Windows users: download the .exe file and run the installer; you should then have a shortcut in your Start menu Mac users: download the .dmg file and open it up; copy the WeftQDA to your Applications folder Linux and other source users: download the .tar.gz file and unpack it. You will need ruby, a few system libraries, and several ruby gems installed. The README.txt file runs through the requirements. It's a few steps, but should be straightforward. Then do ruby -rubygems weft-qda.rb to run Weft QDA. == WHAT'S NEW == Pretty much everything. It should look familiar, and tries to retain an emphasis on simplicity and ease of use, but internally it's been almost completely rewritten. Major new features include: * Supports multi-lingual projects (save documents files for import in UTF-8 encoding) * Native on Mac OS X * More modern visual appearance * Interface can be translated into different languages * Documents can be edited after importing, whilst retaining coding * Annotations can be applied to passages of text * Attributes can be applied to whole documents * Searches, queries and code reviews are saved to the database and results updated live * Printing * Autosaving to recover from crashes * Smaller project file size Note that internally the file format is different to Weft QDA 1.0, so at the moment, it's not possible to open Weft 1.0 qdp files in this release. This is partly deliberate to avoid damaging existing projects. == WHAT'S LEFT TO DO == First, a few things left to match up to Weft QDA 1.0 * Interface for Queries * Interface for CodeReviews * Update documentation Then, remaining features I'd like to add: * More import/export formats - XML (hypertopic, QuDeX, QDIF), possibly PDF, RTF * Colour theming of application icons * Custom-highlighting colours for Categories * Convert project from Weft QDA v1.0 * Scripting * Collaborative net-based working * Image documents (possibly sound & video...) * Integrated help Plus your suggestions... == PROBLEMS, BUGS, FEATURE REQUESTS == If you're having problems installing or running the software, please use the mailing list. If you find bugs - you probably will - please file them on the bug tracker: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2625&group_id=665&func=browse If you would like to request a feature, either discuss it on this mailing list, or use the feature request: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2628&group_id=665&func=browse Please use the tracker if possible; it helps ensure that everything is followed up. You don't have to register to use it, but if you register you will receive feedback on the bug/feature. Lastly, thanks all for your continued interest in Weft QDA. cheers alex From alex at pressure.to Fri Apr 18 07:19:09 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:19:09 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - OS X help requested In-Reply-To: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> Message-ID: <480883AD.8000609@pressure.to> Alex Fenton wrote: > Mac users: download the .dmg file and open it up; copy the WeftQDA to > your Applications folder > Apparently the Mac build isn't running right. I don't have access to a second Mac to test on, so I'd like to hear from anyone with OS X 10.4 or 10.5 who'd be willing to collaborate on getting this to work. It would only involve a bit of emailing back and forth and trying out applications until we get one that works. Please drop me an email if interested. thanks alex From lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk Fri Apr 18 07:22:27 2008 From: lindsay.stirton at manchester.ac.uk (Lindsay Stirton) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:22:27 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - OS X help requested In-Reply-To: <480883AD.8000609@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> <480883AD.8000609@pressure.to> Message-ID: <48088473.50207@manchester.ac.uk> Alex, I will happily help, if I can. I was the one who originally posted the bug report (anonymously). But my knowledge of OS X and its unix underpinnings is not all that deep. Lindsay Alex Fenton wrote: > Alex Fenton wrote: > >> Mac users: download the .dmg file and open it up; copy the WeftQDA to >> your Applications folder >> >> > > Apparently the Mac build isn't running right. I don't have access to a > second Mac to test on, so I'd like to hear from anyone with OS X 10.4 or > 10.5 who'd be willing to collaborate on getting this to work. > > It would only involve a bit of emailing back and forth and trying out > applications until we get one that works. Please drop me an email if > interested. > > thanks > alex > > > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > From alex at pressure.to Fri Apr 18 07:28:04 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:28:04 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - OS X help requested In-Reply-To: <48088473.50207@manchester.ac.uk> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> <480883AD.8000609@pressure.to> <48088473.50207@manchester.ac.uk> Message-ID: <480885C4.2040708@pressure.to> Lindsay Stirton wrote: > I will happily help, if I can. I was the one who originally posted the > bug report (anonymously). But my knowledge of OS X and its unix > underpinnings is not all that deep. > Thanks for the kind offer. I should have said no technical knowledge required. I think I know what the problem is; it's a matter of verifying when it's resolved, which I can't do on a single machine. I will drop you a line off-list to follow-up. If there are others out there willing to help, it'd still be useful to hear from you - I would like to test on both 10.4 and 10.5 thanks alex From grizzou at gmail.com Fri Apr 18 08:14:43 2008 From: grizzou at gmail.com (grizzou) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:14:43 -0400 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable In-Reply-To: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> Message-ID: <2c31f7f50804180514g1b4d7aabw8555c06852c9f62b@mail.gmail.com> Realy great... I just take a look on the new features and the previous ones and we will have a good software to propose for anybody how want to work with something else than NVivo, Atlas-ti or other. An idea, if you decide to work on integretion of video or audio, maybe it could be an idea to continue de developpement of Transana. It is suppose to be open source, but the developper decide to request payment for the download (500$). So, if WeftQDA want to go on this way, maybe we just can take the source code of a previous version and legally go over the transana project with integreting some modules of Transana in Weft. OK, I'm not a programmer, so I don't know if it is possible to do that, but if we can do it... wow. Have a great day... and thanks Alex for your great work... Jean-Fran?ois Dragon 2008/4/18 Alex Fenton : > Hi > > You're warmly invited to try and comment on the first initial preview of > Weft QDA 2. > > == WARNING == > > This is very much an alpha release. It definitely shouldn't be used for > real projects. There's no guarantee that projects will be capable of > being opened in future releases. > > == DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING == > > http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=665&release_id=21324 > > Windows users: download the .exe file and run the installer; you should > then have a shortcut in your Start menu > > Mac users: download the .dmg file and open it up; copy the WeftQDA to > your Applications folder > > Linux and other source users: download the .tar.gz file and unpack it. > You will need ruby, a few system libraries, and several ruby gems > installed. The README.txt file runs through the requirements. It's a few > steps, but should be straightforward. Then do ruby -rubygems weft-qda.rb > to run Weft QDA. > > == WHAT'S NEW == > > Pretty much everything. It should look familiar, and tries to retain an > emphasis on simplicity and ease of use, but internally it's been almost > completely rewritten. Major new features include: > > * Supports multi-lingual projects (save documents files for import in > UTF-8 encoding) > * Native on Mac OS X > * More modern visual appearance > * Interface can be translated into different languages > * Documents can be edited after importing, whilst retaining coding > * Annotations can be applied to passages of text > * Attributes can be applied to whole documents > * Searches, queries and code reviews are saved to the database and > results updated live > * Printing > * Autosaving to recover from crashes > * Smaller project file size > > Note that internally the file format is different to Weft QDA 1.0, so at > the moment, it's not possible to open Weft 1.0 qdp files in this > release. This is partly deliberate to avoid damaging existing projects. > > == WHAT'S LEFT TO DO == > > First, a few things left to match up to Weft QDA 1.0 > > * Interface for Queries > * Interface for CodeReviews > * Update documentation > > Then, remaining features I'd like to add: > > * More import/export formats - XML (hypertopic, QuDeX, QDIF), possibly > PDF, RTF > * Colour theming of application icons > * Custom-highlighting colours for Categories > * Convert project from Weft QDA v1.0 > * Scripting > * Collaborative net-based working > * Image documents (possibly sound & video...) > * Integrated help > > Plus your suggestions... > > == PROBLEMS, BUGS, FEATURE REQUESTS == > > If you're having problems installing or running the software, please use > the mailing list. > > If you find bugs - you probably will - please file them on the bug > tracker: > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2625&group_id=665&func=browse > > If you would like to request a feature, either discuss it on this > mailing list, or use the feature request: > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2628&group_id=665&func=browse > > Please use the tracker if possible; it helps ensure that everything is > followed up. You don't have to register to use it, but if you register > you will receive feedback on the bug/feature. > > Lastly, thanks all for your continued interest in Weft QDA. > > cheers > alex > > > > > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080418/70d40dc7/attachment.html From alex at pressure.to Sat Apr 19 02:39:12 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:39:12 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - OS X help requested In-Reply-To: <480883AD.8000609@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> <480883AD.8000609@pressure.to> Message-ID: <48099390.4080502@pressure.to> Alex Fenton wrote: > Apparently the Mac build isn't running right. I don't have access to a > second Mac to test on, so I'd like to hear from anyone with OS X 10.4 or > 10.5 who'd be willing to collaborate on getting this to work. Just a note to say that it's now working on 10.5 - thanks to Lindsay for help with this. An updated .dmg file is now available on the download page if you wish to try this version of Weft QDA on Mac. alex From Jordi.Lopez at uab.es Mon Apr 21 08:22:13 2008 From: Jordi.Lopez at uab.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jordi_L=F3pez?=) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:22:13 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable In-Reply-To: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> Message-ID: <480C86F5.1000704@uab.es> I've checked importing text in Spanish and Catalan languages, but i couldn't import them. I also tried to open a previous project in Spanish but I couldn't. El program gives a problem of encoding. In English It worked fine to import data. I tried alto to assign attributes to documents and it worked fine. A very nice feature. I like the new graphical aspects. Jordi En/na Alex Fenton ha escrit: > Hi > > You're warmly invited to try and comment on the first initial preview of > Weft QDA 2. > > == WARNING == > > This is very much an alpha release. It definitely shouldn't be used for > real projects. There's no guarantee that projects will be capable of > being opened in future releases. > > == DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING == > > http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=665&release_id=21324 > > Windows users: download the .exe file and run the installer; you should > then have a shortcut in your Start menu > > Mac users: download the .dmg file and open it up; copy the WeftQDA to > your Applications folder > > Linux and other source users: download the .tar.gz file and unpack it. > You will need ruby, a few system libraries, and several ruby gems > installed. The README.txt file runs through the requirements. It's a few > steps, but should be straightforward. Then do ruby -rubygems weft-qda.rb > to run Weft QDA. > > == WHAT'S NEW == > > Pretty much everything. It should look familiar, and tries to retain an > emphasis on simplicity and ease of use, but internally it's been almost > completely rewritten. Major new features include: > > * Supports multi-lingual projects (save documents files for import in > UTF-8 encoding) > * Native on Mac OS X > * More modern visual appearance > * Interface can be translated into different languages > * Documents can be edited after importing, whilst retaining coding > * Annotations can be applied to passages of text > * Attributes can be applied to whole documents > * Searches, queries and code reviews are saved to the database and > results updated live > * Printing > * Autosaving to recover from crashes > * Smaller project file size > > Note that internally the file format is different to Weft QDA 1.0, so at > the moment, it's not possible to open Weft 1.0 qdp files in this > release. This is partly deliberate to avoid damaging existing projects. > > == WHAT'S LEFT TO DO == > > First, a few things left to match up to Weft QDA 1.0 > > * Interface for Queries > * Interface for CodeReviews > * Update documentation > > Then, remaining features I'd like to add: > > * More import/export formats - XML (hypertopic, QuDeX, QDIF), possibly > PDF, RTF > * Colour theming of application icons > * Custom-highlighting colours for Categories > * Convert project from Weft QDA v1.0 > * Scripting > * Collaborative net-based working > * Image documents (possibly sound & video...) > * Integrated help > > Plus your suggestions... > > == PROBLEMS, BUGS, FEATURE REQUESTS == > > If you're having problems installing or running the software, please use > the mailing list. > > If you find bugs - you probably will - please file them on the bug tracker: > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2625&group_id=665&func=browse > > If you would like to request a feature, either discuss it on this > mailing list, or use the feature request: > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2628&group_id=665&func=browse > > Please use the tracker if possible; it helps ensure that everything is > followed up. You don't have to register to use it, but if you register > you will receive feedback on the bug/feature. > > Lastly, thanks all for your continued interest in Weft QDA. > > cheers > alex > > > > > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080421/be50769d/attachment-0001.html From alex at pressure.to Mon Apr 21 08:37:13 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:37:13 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable In-Reply-To: <480C86F5.1000704@uab.es> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> <480C86F5.1000704@uab.es> Message-ID: <480C8A79.8010601@pressure.to> Jordi - Thanks for trying it out. Jordi L?pez wrote: > I've checked importing text in Spanish and Catalan languages, but i > couldn't import them. I also tried to open a previous project in > Spanish but I couldn't. El program gives a problem of encoding. To deal with multilingual projects, the program has to be more careful about encodings (which are different ways to store characters in text files). For Spanish or Catalan, I would try importing again. In the dialog where you choose the files, there is an option at the bottom "Files of type:". Choose "Plain Text Files (ISO-8859-1)" instead of "Plain Text Files (UTF-8)". Then choose the files you were using before. If that doesn't work, please let me know. You could then ensure that your text files are saved in UTF-8. If you open them in a word processor, and choose "Save As" "Plain Text File", it should give you an option to choose encoding. Select "Unicode (UTF-8)" or "UTF-8". Then import those files into Weft. btw, previous Weft v1.0 projects won't open - the file format is different. When 2.0 is ready there will be an option to import old projects. > In English It worked fine to import data. I tried alto to assign > attributes to documents and it worked fine. A very nice feature. I > like the new graphical aspects. Thanks. In the next release you will be able to use attributes in queries - so "find text coded by category XXX which has attribute YYY". alex From Jordi.Lopez at uab.es Mon Apr 21 09:52:15 2008 From: Jordi.Lopez at uab.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jordi_L=F3pez?=) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:52:15 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable In-Reply-To: <480C8A79.8010601@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> <480C86F5.1000704@uab.es> <480C8A79.8010601@pressure.to> Message-ID: <480C9C0F.2000306@uab.es> Alex, I followed your instructions and I could import Spanish docs in Weft QDA1.9. It worked fine and accents were in their place. Thanks, Alex. Jordi En/na Alex Fenton ha escrit: > Jordi - Thanks for trying it out. > > Jordi L?pez wrote: > >> I've checked importing text in Spanish and Catalan languages, but i >> couldn't import them. I also tried to open a previous project in >> Spanish but I couldn't. El program gives a problem of encoding. >> > To deal with multilingual projects, the program has to be more careful > about encodings (which are different ways to store characters in text > files). > > For Spanish or Catalan, I would try importing again. In the dialog where > you choose the files, there is an option at the bottom "Files of type:". > Choose "Plain Text Files (ISO-8859-1)" instead of "Plain Text Files > (UTF-8)". Then choose the files you were using before. > > If that doesn't work, please let me know. You could then ensure that > your text files are saved in UTF-8. If you open them in a word > processor, and choose "Save As" "Plain Text File", it should give you an > option to choose encoding. Select "Unicode (UTF-8)" or "UTF-8". Then > import those files into Weft. > > btw, previous Weft v1.0 projects won't open - the file format is > different. When 2.0 is ready there will be an option to import old projects. > >> In English It worked fine to import data. I tried alto to assign >> attributes to documents and it worked fine. A very nice feature. I >> like the new graphical aspects. >> > Thanks. In the next release you will be able to use attributes in > queries - so "find text coded by category XXX which has attribute YYY". > > alex > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/weft-qda-users/attachments/20080421/c97af46d/attachment.html From magnus at vista.se Mon Apr 21 12:54:43 2008 From: magnus at vista.se (Magnus Larsson) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:54:43 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable In-Reply-To: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> Message-ID: <480CC6D3.5060609@vista.se> Hi! Have done some testing with swedish documents, in both utf-8 and iso8859-1 coding, and found no problems with them. - importing works well - coding works well - retrieving and viewing codes work well Also tried with categories using swedish characters (a code called "externa akt?rer") - worked well. Unmarking - ok. Deleting documents - ok. Inserting memo - ok BUT: when doing this, and clicking on OK on the note, I am retured to the top of the text document, not to the insert point. Found that the dropdown box that displays "recently used categories" displayed mulitple instances of categories, when I had used one category several times. And an idea: I would like to see all categories used in the present document there. As of now, when I re-open a coded document, this box is empty (as no codes have been used this session). (this is a feature request) One problem (maybe not to be expected to work?) - attempting to restore a backup, after a crash, again crashed weft. Would you need the output from this? Finally, I am not sure how the attribute function is to work... ? Maybe too early? My system is Ubuntu Gutsy. And somewhat off the point: why is Weft not GPL'd? Just curious. Great work, Alex! Keep it up, and hope I can be of help somewhere along the line... Magnus Alex Fenton skrev: > Hi > > You're warmly invited to try and comment on the first initial preview of > Weft QDA 2. > > == WARNING == > > This is very much an alpha release. It definitely shouldn't be used for > real projects. There's no guarantee that projects will be capable of > being opened in future releases. > > == DOWNLOADING & INSTALLING == > > http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=665&release_id=21324 > > Windows users: download the .exe file and run the installer; you should > then have a shortcut in your Start menu > > Mac users: download the .dmg file and open it up; copy the WeftQDA to > your Applications folder > > Linux and other source users: download the .tar.gz file and unpack it. > You will need ruby, a few system libraries, and several ruby gems > installed. The README.txt file runs through the requirements. It's a few > steps, but should be straightforward. Then do ruby -rubygems weft-qda.rb > to run Weft QDA. > > == WHAT'S NEW == > > Pretty much everything. It should look familiar, and tries to retain an > emphasis on simplicity and ease of use, but internally it's been almost > completely rewritten. Major new features include: > > * Supports multi-lingual projects (save documents files for import in > UTF-8 encoding) > * Native on Mac OS X > * More modern visual appearance > * Interface can be translated into different languages > * Documents can be edited after importing, whilst retaining coding > * Annotations can be applied to passages of text > * Attributes can be applied to whole documents > * Searches, queries and code reviews are saved to the database and > results updated live > * Printing > * Autosaving to recover from crashes > * Smaller project file size > > Note that internally the file format is different to Weft QDA 1.0, so at > the moment, it's not possible to open Weft 1.0 qdp files in this > release. This is partly deliberate to avoid damaging existing projects. > > == WHAT'S LEFT TO DO == > > First, a few things left to match up to Weft QDA 1.0 > > * Interface for Queries > * Interface for CodeReviews > * Update documentation > > Then, remaining features I'd like to add: > > * More import/export formats - XML (hypertopic, QuDeX, QDIF), possibly > PDF, RTF > * Colour theming of application icons > * Custom-highlighting colours for Categories > * Convert project from Weft QDA v1.0 > * Scripting > * Collaborative net-based working > * Image documents (possibly sound & video...) > * Integrated help > > Plus your suggestions... > > == PROBLEMS, BUGS, FEATURE REQUESTS == > > If you're having problems installing or running the software, please use > the mailing list. > > If you find bugs - you probably will - please file them on the bug tracker: > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2625&group_id=665&func=browse > > If you would like to request a feature, either discuss it on this > mailing list, or use the feature request: > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=2628&group_id=665&func=browse > > Please use the tracker if possible; it helps ensure that everything is > followed up. You don't have to register to use it, but if you register > you will receive feedback on the bug/feature. > > Lastly, thanks all for your continued interest in Weft QDA. > > cheers > alex > > > > > _______________________________________________ > weft-qda-users mailing list > weft-qda-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/weft-qda-users > From alex at pressure.to Mon Apr 21 13:33:17 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:33:17 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Weft QDA 2 - preview 1.9.0 avaiable In-Reply-To: <480CC6D3.5060609@vista.se> References: <48084F74.7070105@pressure.to> <480CC6D3.5060609@vista.se> Message-ID: <480CCFDD.8040303@pressure.to> Magnus Larsson wrote: > Have done some testing with swedish documents, in both utf-8 and > iso8859-1 coding, and found no problems with them. > Great, thanks for encouragement and time trying this out. Briefly in response: > BUT: when doing this, and clicking on OK on the note, I am retured to > the top of the text document, not to the insert point. > I'll fix that. > And an idea: I would like to see all categories used in > the present document there. As of now, when I re-open a coded document, > this box is empty (as no codes have been used this session). (this is a > feature request) > Sounds sensible, I can add that. > One problem (maybe not to be expected to work?) - attempting to restore > a backup, after a crash, again crashed weft. Would you need the output > from this? > No, I'm seeing the same thing now > Finally, I am not sure how the attribute function is to work... ? Maybe > too early? > It should work at the moment - you create an attribute (eg 'sex') then create values for it (eg 'male', 'female'). Then you can file documents under those attributes. But the point of it will be clearer when Query is working again. > And somewhat off the point: why is Weft not GPL'd? Just curious. > I just liked a "Public Domain" licence better, at the time, because it completely disavowed proprietorial rights. best alex From cynog81 at hotmail.com Wed Apr 23 10:26:12 2008 From: cynog81 at hotmail.com (cyn pry) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:26:12 +0000 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Trouble opening categories and files Message-ID: I?m having trouble with my Weft project. Some of my categories no longer open when I click on them. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Also, for some reason two of my imported documents no longer open when I click on them. The content is there when I click on my categories but I can?t open the document to add new coding. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Search and win with BigSnapSearch.com http://www.bigsnapsearch.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Unfortunately I don't know of a solution for this at the moment. alex From fmartinezo at ub.edu Sun Apr 27 06:27:17 2008 From: fmartinezo at ub.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Francesc_Mart=EDnez_Olmo?=) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:27:17 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Inaccurate query Message-ID: <54907eb90804270327j6e561361k95a84b072aef8957@mail.gmail.com> I'm very pleased with weft-qda but recently I've noticed that "Query", neither Code Review, is not accurately working. I expose a simple case: - I use v.1.0.1, with a document of 7 lines, attached below -------------------------------------------- linia 1: hola linia 2: linia 3: Que tal? linia 4: linia 6: Molt be, gracies. linia 7: Adeu. -------------------------------------------- - The categories tree has 2 items. The whole document is marked with category A and three parts of the doc (-hola-, -Molt be- and -gracies-) are marked with category B. When I query text that is coded by A AND that is coded by B, only 1 part (-gracies-) is showed. These occurs with several projects, under windows and linux. I've opened the project file with sqlitebrowser and everything (category, code, etc) seems ok. Any suggestion? -- Francesc Mart?nez Olmo .?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.? Dept. M?todes d'Investigaci? i Diagn?stic en Educaci? Facultat de Pedagogia Universitat de Barcelona From fmartinezo at ub.edu Sun Apr 27 06:30:31 2008 From: fmartinezo at ub.edu (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Francesc_Mart=EDnez_Olmo?=) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:30:31 +0200 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Trouble opening categories and files In-Reply-To: <54907eb90804250119i6dd5df74s8b9cbea06414667a@mail.gmail.com> References: <54907eb90804250119i6dd5df74s8b9cbea06414667a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <54907eb90804270330j1695b29bh281f1dabb130ba96@mail.gmail.com> When I double-click on a document or category and this can't be viewed, I select "Cascade" from the "Window" option in main menu and then it appears again. Greatings. -- Francesc Mart?nez Olmo .?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.?.? Dept. M?todes d'Investigaci? i Diagn?stic en Educaci? Facultat de Pedagogia Universitat de Barcelona From alex at pressure.to Sun Apr 27 17:19:52 2008 From: alex at pressure.to (Alex Fenton) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:19:52 +0100 Subject: [Weft QDA users] Inaccurate query In-Reply-To: <54907eb90804270327j6e561361k95a84b072aef8957@mail.gmail.com> References: <54907eb90804270327j6e561361k95a84b072aef8957@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4814EDF8.8090909@pressure.to> Hi Francesc Thanks for the feedback. This was a known bug in version 1.0 which is now fixed for the next release of Weft 2.0. Unfortunately I don't really have time to go back and fix it in v 1.0 cheers alex Francesc Mart?nez Olmo wrote: > I'm very pleased with weft-qda but recently I've noticed that "Query", > neither Code Review, is not accurately working. > > I expose a simple case: > - I use v.1.0.1, with a document of 7 lines, attached below > -------------------------------------------- > linia 1: hola > linia 2: > linia 3: Que tal? > linia 4: > > linia 6: Molt be, gracies. > linia 7: Adeu. > -------------------------------------------- > > - The categories tree has 2 items. The whole document is marked with > category A and three parts of the doc (-hola-, -Molt be- and > -gracies-) are marked with category B. When I query text that is coded > by A AND that is coded by B, only 1 part (-gracies-) is showed. > > These occurs with several projects, under windows and linux. > > I've opened the project file with sqlitebrowser and everything > (category, code, etc) seems ok. > > Any suggestion? > >