WeiLiYu / News: Recent posts

It's been a while since the last release, and the new release sports many new features, most of which
are invisible.

Due to potential problems with character sets on Windows and Mac computers, WeiLiYu will now fall back to several Unicode variants as well as non-Unicode Chinese encodings if the file fails to load as UTF-8.

A version string is also now visible in the game settings dialog (yay), and closing the game settings dialog exits the game.

WeiLiYu 1.0 has been released, and sports the following features:

* Missed characters can be saved to a file for printing/studying/using as a character library.

* The game settings screen has been moderately improved.

* The useless --quick command line option has been removed

* The .wly format has been relaxed a bit to allow uppercase letters in pinyin, and to assume tone 5 if no tone was specified.... read more

In 1.0rc5, three of the koi have been redone to improve character contrast, and - by popular demand - command line options have been added. The syntax can be seen in the online documentation.

Speaking of documentation, offline versions of ALL documentation (including a new clarification of UNIX vs. Windows newline characters which will hopefully eliminate some confusion with Windows users seeing the .wly files as being on one line) are now included in the .zip!

The latest release candidate sports some new features, including convenient buttons on the ending screen: "New Game", "Try Again", and "Exit".

Also for convenience, you may specify the directory that the file chooser starts in on the command line.

The documentation will be updated accordingly when I get the chance.

1.0rc2 (which has no news post) has a new error dialog for when .wly files are invalid (which happens if someone uses out-of-date files or their self-created files are not properly formatted)

1.0rc3 fixes the speed changes in 1.0rc2 - the fish were WAY too slow.

WeiLiYu is rapidly approaching the first stable version.

All reasonable features that have been requested are added and I am satisfied with the way WeiLiYu functions, for now.

If any more bugs are found or more features are needed, I'll make changes. Otherwise, this release will be quickly renamed to 1.0 (no rc).

WeiLiYu's character library format has been improved! Instead of large .zip files containing PNG images, WeiLiYu now reads small text files containing pinyin and characters (see the project website for format details).

Changing to the new format introduced a bug, in which a person using a computer with the default character encoding set to anything other than UTF8 would see garbage instead of chinese characters on the fish. This has been fixed, and WeiLiYu now specifies the encoding of the library file before opening it.