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 |
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 |
Command line: The /IsTranslated command includes a check for size and position changes in the source. |
#176 |
.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 |
Update to "Find Text" function: The "Find in closed projects" option was removed. |
#167 |
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 |
MS Word Spell Checker: discontinued by Microsoft for third-party use, the Spell Checker has been disabled in RC-WinTrans. |
#160 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
RWTCmd.exe retired: The RWTCmd.exe command line tool is no longer supported. Use the command line commands introduced with RC-WinTrans 11. |
#154 |
.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 |
Export translation project: improved performance. The export is about 90% faster for a project with 50 or more files. |
#149 |
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 |
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 |
Export translation project: Performance improvement. |
#141 |
Summary check: Performance improvement. |
#140 – Fix |
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#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. |