What's new in Master Key 5.6.4
Aug 14, 2015
New in Master Key 5.6.3 (Mar 25, 2015)
- Developer signed for latest OS versions
New in Master Key 5.6.2 (Jan 19, 2012)
- Added Sparkle for in-app updates for non-app store version
- # is now £ in QWERTY and drill generator drills with British keyboard
- Fixed an issue with crashing in 10.7.2 when unregistered and proceeding to the next drill
New in Master Key 5.6.1 (Jul 2, 2011)
New in Master Key 5.5.1 (Nov 14, 2010)
- Fixed Hide Keyboard function on test window (broken in 5.5)
New in Master Key 5.5 (Oct 13, 2010)
- Now uses 'Master Key Preferences' found in the same folder as the application if the preferences found in the account preferences folder is either nonexistent or if the preferences were created before registration
- Fixed an issue where saving pupils from the class editor would hang
- Attempting to save a drill log to a read-only folder will no longer result in a crash
- Show WPM heads-up display preference is no longer overridden by Enable statistics during drill preference
- Changed encodings to allow a greater range of UTF8 characters
- Checks for writable status of pupil file on load and save and reports a problem if one is encountered
- Pause keyboard shortcut is now displayed on pause button
- In the history window after multipage drills, next drill button now is next page button
- Multipage drills now display total pages such as p. 1 of 5
New in Master Key 5.4.8 (Apr 16, 2010)
- Fixed some issues with showing words with accented characters in French and German drills
- Fixed an issue with opening drill selection window
- Fixed graph checkboxes disappearing when mousing over them in the History window in Windows
New in Master Key 5.4.7 (Oct 19, 2009)
- Fixed problem of starting wrong next drill from history window thus also giving credit incorrectly to the drill that was supposed to be started. Bug introduced in 5.4.6.
New in Master Key 5.4.6 (Sep 30, 2009)
- Fixed improper WPM display in certificates printed from the Class Reports.
- Fixed some problems with quitting in Class Reports and Settings with bad data.
- Made some optimizations with Mac clients working with Windows server volumes.
- Gave drill selection in main window a small delay loading drills in case the arrow key is used to move through the list.
New in Master Key 5.4.5 (Jun 16, 2009)
- Timer bell at end of timed drill is not turned off when key sounds are off.
- Changed ParaTyper font for better readability.
New in Master Key 5.4.4 (May 9, 2009)
- Fixed a rare problem of unregistered plugins dialogs showing.
New in Master Key 5.4.3 (May 7, 2009)
- Added option to turn off scrolling while typing.
- Mac: Changed permission testing detection to be more forgiving for some network situations.
- Mac: Moved Help display to default web browser.
New in Master Key 5.4.2 (Nov 22, 2008)
- Fixed a cheat bug in ParaTyper.
New in Master Key 5.4 (Oct 9, 2008)
- Added multiple pupil, class, password import from delimited text file ability.
- In order to discourage key repeat abuse, a dialog is now presented when too many keystrokes are typed incorrectly.
- ParaTyper no longer accepts keystrokes as correct before word is visible.
- Fixed a problem reloading paginated drills when drills is reselected at the time of launch.
- When Pupils folder is the Master Key folder doesn't have write permissions with account mode off and not in network mode, now uses Pupils folder in Master Key Data folder in account preferences folder.
New in Master Key 5.3.5 (Sep 15, 2008)
- Fixed problem in 10.4.11 where drill was not loaded at launch when remember last pupil is used.
New in Master Key 5.3.4 (Sep 6, 2008)
- Fixed problem of incorrect WPM when certificate is printed from Class Report or main window.
New in Master Key 5.3.2 (Aug 25, 2008)
- Keyboard animation now animates next key hint when there is a pause in typing.
- Tab key now changes tab panels in History window
- Network preferences now properly apply to interface at launch when conflicting preferences are read from the local folder.
- Drill Editor now works with no pupils loaded.
New in Master Key 5.3.1 (Aug 20, 2008)
- Fixed Key WPM and Key Accuracy analysis to be more accurate for more situations.
New in Master Key 5.3 (Aug 9, 2008)
- Improved multiple monitor support for remembering window positions.
- Keyboard display now automatically adjusts to system keyboard input choice for most common supported roman language keyboards.
- Added Colemak keyboard support and drills. Keyboard layout download required.
- Fixed some problems with handling drills with longer filenames.
- Added 'Start Next Drill' or 'Retry This Drill' functionality (button) to History window.
New in Master Key 5.2.7 (Mar 3, 2008)
- Improved error-handling of reading preferences from the network in an attempt to stop the problem of the preferences being reset once in a while by a single client