Hi Guys,

I just finished one of the largest updates features wise in a while. Specifically the long awaited spell check has been completely rewritten and added back in. Currently all words spelled wrong when you are adding/editing a comment, or working in any of the docs or even picture captions will be underlines as you type (great live feedback . Right click on misspelled words to see possible spellings. Right now there's an extra click there I plan on eliminating. You can also hit F7 when working in any of these areas to run through a MS Word style spell check mode where all words in the current section misspelled will be run through. Eventually I will be adding a button to trigger this function as well, and creating a 'spell check whole program' function where the spell checker looks through everything you have to check. Note, spell check will not underline words spelled wrong when they are in a list, you have to be in an edit or add mode.

Make sure to give some feedback on the message boards as I'd like to make this version available to the public this week!

Overview of all changes below, read it over there's several other biggies added since last weeks beta update.

New Feature: Spellcheck added in English (Spanish, French, Italian and German coming soon). Added to add add/edit comments, edit documents, footer, contract, and photo caption windows. You will see words underlined and can also hit F7 to run a complete spell check to run through the entire document, comment, etc. Right click on the words spelled incorrectly to see suggestions.

New Feature: Added a move up/down button to the red & black comments so you can rearrange their appearance.

New Feature: Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise/counterclockwise now added to edit photo.

Design Change: When you enter Edit Photo mode the "Draw Arrow" button will be selected by default. Since this is the tool used the most, it will save you a click if it's what you're going to be using first.

Design Change: The drop down boxes used to set where the photos will appear now display up to 25 items at once before creating a scroll bar. Previously only 10 were shown which meant you had to scroll at time. 25 was chosen as the max as it's the most that can be shown on an 800x600 resolution computer.

Design Change: Made it so that when you have 2 panels on the screen the split will be closer to 50/50. This is to help out on smaller resolutions.

Design Change: The new larger edit boxes will move a word to the next line if it doesn't fit, rather than splitting the word across lines.

Hey Mike,

Thanks, glad you like the changes. I'm working on a few more additions that will make the spell check more useful. For example, right now it's case sensitive. If you capitalize everything in your picture caption it will say that's wrong as only the first word should be capitalized. I'm working on removing case sensitivity there. I'm also going to move the language selection to th Edit section and make it so when you right click it goes directly to the possible spellings.

Hey Bob, I'll see about limiting the possibilities of correct spellings.

Dominic
Where do I download the most current Beta version?  Thanks again for your help the other day.

HI,
 Dominic,

1. I had some overwriting of the footer with text in the latest beta release 2.5.9.1

2. Is there a way to have the summary page not print or better yet to have the ability to add a seperate text field to the Summary. It I have no Red conditions in a Radon report for example, I get a blank summary page when I generate a report.

3. I issue a separate report for Radon results 2-3 days after the home inspection report but I have to re-enter all the client data. Did I miss something?

4. On my footer which is two lines, if I select "center text" the second line still left justifies.

5. I had double printing of some photos in a generated report and had to go delete them in the inspection and re-enter to get rid of them.

That's what I have for now.
Love the last beta update features.
Let me know if you need me to send you any files to see the bugs.

mike@inspectrapro.com

Thanks for your answers. :-)

5. That's what I thought at first but no. It drove me nuts on 3 photos, but now I can't reproduce it. If it happens again I will try to pay more attention.

Well someone has to be first. I'll let you know.

Bob,

That's not a glitch, it was programmed that way (or at least not programmed to not act that way). After you save the inspection and reopen the inspection it shifts ALL the photos up so there aren't any spaces open. The reason for this is if you go and import 300 photos as several people this week have told me they've done, then go through and delete a good 30% of them, after you save and reopen it has shifted them all up. This minimizes the number of tabs opens (using less ram) as well as makes it easier to find the photos.I figured if you're entering photos you'd choose the cover at the same time. I guess you can throw any old picture there if you plan on not choosing the cover until later.

Yeah, stay away from opening two copies of the program. I've been going through and looking at what I need to make sure to have open in a random folder so that there's no problems. But even then if you opened up both then saved one as default template, then the other, the 2nd would take precedent.

I would stay away from opening the program twice until I have some more time this weekend to look at it. Right now the templates get unzipped to the same folder, it probably won't be an issue if you were only working on templates, but definitely would be for inspections.

For the cover photo, yes, add it, or add a place holder before closing out.

Hi Robert,

Haven't released it yet as I had a few issues with the spell check to resolve on the mac end that I've finally finished up. The windows users are LOVING it. I'm adding in a few more feature requests that I've had (a few of the many) and hope to release a new windows & mac version this weekend.

Dominic