What's new in Type Fu 4.8.0
Feb 21, 2021
- Option to export stats from the desktop app to the new web app
- "Qwerty Norwegian (Mac)" layout (submitted by Jørgen)
New in Type Fu 4.7.6 (Jun 30, 2020)
- "Qwerty Nordic" layout (submitted by Linus)
New in Type Fu 4.7.5 (Jun 25, 2020)
- "Qwerty Swedish (Mac)" layout (requested by Armmus)
- Bugfix: Alt+a and Alt+o should produce "æ" and "œ" when "Azerty French (Mac)" layout is selected (reported by Frederic)
- Bugfix: German dictionary contains several potentialy offensive words (reported by Heiko)
New in Type Fu 4.7.4 (Jun 5, 2020)
- Bugfix: Invalid accuracy value shown by the "Speed & Accuracy" chart (reported by Martin)
New in Type Fu 4.7.3 (May 31, 2020)
- Bugfix: Numpad keys are not working (reported by Ed)
New in Type Fu 4.7.2 (May 10, 2020)
- Bugfix: Fix typos in English "Quotes" and "Facts" dictionaries (reported by Cathy)
New in Type Fu 4.7.1 (Jan 28, 2020)
- Bugfix: Scrollbars have incorrect color
- Bugfix: Long text might overflow the textarea when both keyboard and hands are hidden (reported by Mr. Zeng)
- Bugfix: Blue outline shown around stats dialog while it is animating
New in Type Fu 4.7.0 (Jan 23, 2020)
- Qwerty Canadian French (Mac) keyboard layout (requested by Evgeniy)
New in Type Fu 4.6.0 (Dec 22, 2019)
- "Stats -> General -> Average speed" meter
- "Stats -> General -> Average accuracy" meter
- ABC-Extended keyboard layout
- Show detailed stats when user clicks "Speed & Accuracy" chart node
- Show detailed stats when user clicks a heat map key
- Increase the precision of the "Auto-increment level" sliders in the app preferences to 1 unit
- Add "#" char to "Qwerty British (Mac)", "Qwertz Hungarian (Mac)" and "Turkish (Mac)" layouts
- Upgrade to Electron 5 runtime
New in Type Fu 4.5.7 (Oct 21, 2019)
- Bugfix: Random exercises fail to load after user deselects all characters from the level dropdown (reported by Marina)
New in Type Fu 4.5.6 (Apr 16, 2019)
- Upgrade to Electron 4 runtime
New in Type Fu 4.5.5 (Apr 2, 2019)
- Upgrade to Electron 3 runtime
- Bugfix: Some exercises contain an em dash (—) instead of a hyphen-minus (-) character (reported by Kyaw)
New in Type Fu 4.5.4 (Dec 16, 2018)
- Bugfix: Can't define custom dead keys (reported by Michael)
New in Type Fu 4.5.3 (Nov 20, 2018)
- Bugfix: Can't launch the app on macOS 10.10.x
New in Type Fu 4.5.2 (Jul 3, 2018)
- Add an option to disable hardware acceleration
New in Type Fu 4.5.1 (Jun 14, 2018)
- Bug fix: Old stats are no longer shown after update to version 4.5.0
- Bug fix: "Show keyboard" and "Show hands" preferences are not working
- Bug fix: Filter checkboxes in "Stats" dialog are not working
New in Type Fu 4.4.0 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Added stats reset buttons to general preferences (requested by Jeremy)
- Added Common Lisp syntax highlighting support (requested by Poppy_Raj)
- Bug fix: Wrong mappings in "Azerty Belgian (Mac)" layout (reported by Daan)
- Bug fix: "Qwerty Polish" layout is missing "ć" and "Ć" (reported by Radek)
- New layouts:
- Azerty French (Mac)
- Qwerty Croatian (Mac)
- Qwerty Danish (Mac)
- Qwerty Dutch (Mac)
- Qwerty Italian (Mac)
- Qwertz Czech (Mac)
- Qwertz Hungarian (Mac)
- Bulgarian (Mac)
- Turkish (Mac)
New in Type Fu 4.3.1 (Dec 6, 2017)
- Add "Azerty Belgian (Mac)" layout (Submitted by Daan)
- Increase the code area height when visual aids are hidden (Requested by Niheel)
- Bug fix: Some keys are not detected correctly on Macbooks with ISO physical layout (Reported by Thomas and Daan)
- Bug fix: "Pause when idle" option is not working
- Bug fix: Layout editor labels have typos (Reported by Julian)
- Bug fix: Some German quotes are cut off
New in Type Fu 4.3.0 (Nov 22, 2017)
- CPU and memory usage optimizations
- Font size settings
- Qwerty British and Qwerty British (Mac) layouts
- Bug fix: Some German proverbs contain non-typable characters
- Bug fix: Enter and Escape keys misbehave when a dead key is active
- Bug fix: CapsLock key should alter only the keys that can produce uppercase letters
- Bug fix: Next random exercise should be loaded when user changes the keyboard layout
- Bug fix: Functional layouts are not sorted alphabetically
New in Type Fu 4.2.0 (Nov 15, 2017)
- Option to show only hands
- Swift and CoffeeScript code dictionaries
- Better stylings for the on-screen keyboard
- Bug fix: Can't drag sliders using touchscreen
- Bug fix: Dictionary name input has no focus indicator
- Bug fix: Dictionaries exported to file can't be reimported
- Bug fix: The keyboard shown by level popover is not updated when user edits the layout via preferences
New in Type Fu 4.0.0 (Nov 3, 2017)
- New flat UI
- Customizable keyboard layouts and dictionaries
- Customizable audio volume and pitch
- "Code" and "Facts" categories
- Dead keys support
New in Type Fu 3.6.11 (Feb 25, 2017)
- macOS 10.11 compatibility fixes.
New in Type Fu 3.6.10 (Feb 20, 2017)
- Fixed regression that prevented the app from working on macOS 10.11.
New in Type Fu 3.6.9 (Feb 18, 2017)
- Bug fix: text not rendered correctly on some macOS versions.
New in Type Fu 3.6.8 (Jun 9, 2016)
- Fixed crashes caused by the audio subsystem
- Fixed lagging audio
New in Type Fu 3.6.7 (Apr 19, 2016)
- Fixed minor UI quirks on OS X 10.11.
New in Type Fu 3.6.6 (Oct 12, 2015)
- Fixed issue with lagging audio
New in Type Fu 3.6.5 (Mar 13, 2014)
- Use 'ss' instead of "ß" when Swiss Qwerty layout is selected
New in Type Fu 3.6.3 (Nov 19, 2013)
- Added support for "Qwerty International" and "Norman" keyboard layouts.
New in Type Fu 3.5.10 (Aug 9, 2013)
New in Type Fu 3.5.9 (Aug 5, 2013)
New in Type Fu 3.5.7 (Jul 20, 2013)
- Added 'Reset stats' button to preferences dialog
New in Type Fu 3.5.6 (Jun 27, 2013)
- show tooltip and guideline when speed or accuracy chart point is hovered
- show tooltip when key is hovered on most typed and most mistyped charts
- fixed bug: sidebar does not always show the correct number of exercises
New in Type Fu 3.5.5 (Jun 21, 2013)
- Added preferences window
- Level increment threshold is now configurable
New in Type Fu 3.5.4 (May 9, 2013)
- Added underline to home keys
New in Type Fu 3.5.3 (Apr 24, 2013)
- Fixed bug: apostrophe character always marked as error in some exercises
New in Type Fu 3.5.0 (Apr 16, 2013)
- windows are no longer flickering when opened for the first time
- redesigned toolbar buttons according to OSX HIG
- redesigned the about window
- removed the option for caret cursor
- removed the finish sound
- dropped support for OSX 10.7
- added more quotes and proverbs
- more readable font on key labels
New in Type Fu 3.2.1 (Jan 18, 2013)
New in Type Fu 3.2.0 (Nov 10, 2012)
- added Workman layout support
- made the whole toolbar area draggable
New in Type Fu 3.1 (Oct 10, 2012)
- Fixed crashes on OSX 10.7 (Lion) when opening main menu
New in Type Fu 3.0 (Oct 4, 2012)
- Retina display support
- Process sandboxing
- Improved startup time
- Fixed audio delays
- Added tooltips to toolbar buttons
- Scale keyboard HUD proportionally on large screens
- Minor Dvorak layout fixes