Version 12 Release Notes

RC-WinTrans Professional and Translator Editions

 

LATEST VERSION:

12.1 (March 2025)

 

OVERVIEW/QUICK LINKS:

DATE/BUILD VERSION

DESCRIPTION

March 2025/12.1.1272

NET 5.0 – 9.0 support; new to-do list for translation projects; Excel no longer required for import/export operations.

November 2024/12.0.1261

Fixes for Windows INI file support and performance improvement for checking a large number of source files for changes.

October 2024/12.0.1260

Excel export bug fix.

May 2024/12.0.1259

Initial release of RC-WinTrans 12.

 

RELEASE NOTES:

 

NUMBER
AND TYPE

DESCRIPTION

 

 

RC-WINTRANS 12.1.1272  —  March 2025

 

#180 – Fix

Translation sources: A project could only be used as a translation source if a TMX or XLIFF file was also used as a translation source for a particular target language.

#179 – Fix

Command line log file: Fix for no logging to the log file.

#178 – Fix

XLIFF export target file: The value of the "target lang" attribute was set to the value of the source language.

#177
Improvement

Command line: The /IsTranslated command includes a check for size and position changes in the source.

#176
Improvement

.NET support: provided for .NET Framework versions 5.0 through 9.0.

#175 – New

Excel import/export: Now functions without using or requiring the Microsoft Excel application.

#174 – New

To-do list: RC-WinTrans generates a to-do list with open tasks in the Output view.

#173

RC-WinTrans QuickShip Edition: discontinued.

 

 

RC-WINTRANS 12.0.1261  —  November 2024

 

#171 – Fix

Windows INI file translation: An "out of memory" error occurred when a Windows INI file had a high number of sections.

New system macro version:  "S-20.0 (Nov. 2024)"

#170 – Fix

Windows INI file encoding: An error occurred when writing UTF-8-encoded target files.

New macro files:

–  SystemMacros.macro "S-20.0 (Nov. 2024)"

–  FileConverters.macro "F-1031 (Nov. 2024)"

#169 – Fix

Performance while checking source files for changes: Checking many source files (>50) for changes took too long. This happened when the source file changes check was set to run automatically and the RC-WinTrans application had the focus.

 

 

RC-WINTRANS 12.0.1260  —  October 2024

 

#168 – Fix

Export from Excel: Did not work for Excel versions other then Excel 2013.

 

 

RC-WINTRANS 12.0.1259  —  July 2024

 

New

New features: Check out the "What's New" for RC-WinTrans 12.

#167
Removed

Update to "Find Text" function: The "Find in closed projects" option was removed.

#167
Removed

Command line tool: RWTCmd.exe has been discontinued and removed.

#166 – New

Spell checker: Spelling dictionaries are now located in the RC-WinTrans installation directory.

#165 – New

Changes tab view- has the following additions:

–  changed source files are listed.

–  new listing of changed items.

–  local menu with two commands: "Changes Preview" and "Update Database".

#164 – New

Excel Import/Export -- Unique ID:  Using of Unique IDs.

#163 – New

Hotkey specification for Japanese- can now be added to a translation text (example: "ファイル  (&F)").

#162
Removed

MS Word Spell Checker: discontinued by Microsoft for third-party use, the Spell Checker has been disabled in RC-WinTrans.

#160
Update

Export to Excel- source text notes: The note/comment for a source text can be exported to a separate column. In previous versions only the note/comment for the target text could be exported.

#159
Update

Quick Launch page: The commands and graphics on the Quick Launch page have been updated.

#158 – New

Pin/Unpin projects in the Projects view: A project can be pinned to keep it listed in the Projects tab view. By default, a project is removed from the view when closed.

#157
Update/
Improvement

TMX file translation sources/dictionaries: Support for adding and saving multiple identical source text entries with different associated translations.

#156 – Fix

Text fit check: Using Win32 dialog resources with the "MS Shell Dlg" or "MS Shell Dlg 2" font specification returned incorrect check results.

#155
Removed

RWTCmd.exe retired: The RWTCmd.exe command line tool is no longer supported. Use the command line commands introduced with RC-WinTrans 11.

#154
Update/
Improvement

.NET property types:

–  The following properties have been set to be hidden (not modifiable) in RC-WinTrans: DisplayIndex, SplitterWidth, SplitterDistance, WordWrap, TextAlign, ImageKey, ImageStream.

–  The "RightToLeft" and "RightToLeftLayout" properties are no longer required to be available for the target file. They can only be edited when included in the source file.

#153 – Fix

External .NET Form Editor: Resolves a crash that occurred when closing the editor window. This issue was known for forms with a statusStrip control.

#152 – Fix

Machine Translator add-on: The two main edit fields could be downsized until they no longer filled the main window.

New Version: 6.0.22 (July 2024)

#151 – New

Inline editing in the Project window: The following commands and actions are available when editing a translation text directly in the Text Table view, the following actions occur when you press the RETURN key for a selected entry:

1. Pressing the RETURN key for a selected entry activates inline editing the for the translation.

2. Pressing RETURN or ESC closes and saves the translation, or exits edit mode if no change was made.

#150
Update/
Improvement

Export translation project: improved performance. The export is about 90% faster for a project with 50 or more files.

#149
Update/
Improvement

TM Workbench add-on:

–  Multiple source text entries now supported.

–  The same source text can be associated with multiple/different translations.

–  COM interface changes.

–  Must be used with RC-WinTrans 12.

New version: 5.0.0.31 (July 2024)

 

 

Bug Fixes and Known Issues from RC-WinTrans 11.5

 

NUMBER
AND TYPE

DESCRIPTION

#146 – Fix

Characters dialog: Characters now shown.

#145 – Fix

Command line fixes: /Update and /WriteTargetFile did not work for text files. The respective file reader/writer was not active for the command line.

#143
Improvement

Export translation project: Performance improvement.

#141
Improvement

Summary check: Performance improvement.

#140 – Fix

 

#139 – Fix

Import multiple source texts from Excel: The "Select Translation" dialog did not work properly for selecting multiple found translations.

#138– Fix

Support for placeholder characters in notes: Placeholder characters (e.g., "%s" or "%d") could not be included in notes for source or target texts.

#137– Fix

Ukrainian langue code: The local language code for Ukrainian has been updated:

(wrong) uk-UK => (correct) uk-UA

#136 – Fix

Export from Excel: the "Selected file" option did not work; when activated, the data of all source files was exported instead.

#135 – Fix

Translation status indicator (Status bar): Nervous flickering occurred when a dialog box window was open and active.

#134 – Fix

Protocol files: The number of database update protocol files is now limited to 5 per language and per source file. Older protocol files are automatically deleted.

#133 – Fix

Find text operation: The option to find text in closed projects did not work.

#132 – Fix

Select Character dialog: Characters were not displayed in the Character Map dialog.