Cognatrix

A new version of Cognatrix has been released. This version corrects a problem which prevented Cognatrix 1.6 from installing correctly on Macintosh running a clean installation of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). This version is functionally identical to Cognatrix 1.6 and there is no benefit to installing Cognatrix 1.6.1 on Snow Leopard and earlier systems. You may install it if you wish. It will do no harm. It is just a waste of time and effort.

A bug has been identified which may prevent Cognatrix from installing properly on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). The symptom is the message that Cognatrix can not complete its installation and is associated with a reason code of 0x1. You will find further information about the problem, including an interim workaround, here.

Labels: Cognatrix, Mac OS X Lion, reason code 0x1

Version 1.6 of Cognatrix is available and can be downloaded here.
This release includes all features previously announced in the various beta versions of Cognatrix 1.6. This release now becomes the supported version and the upgrade path from all previous versions of Cognatrix. Note that Mac OS X 10.5 or later is required.

Version 1.6.0b4 of Cognatrix is available and can be downloaded here.
Changes include:

• Significant work done to support resolution independence (eg vector graphics for toolbar and taxonomy icons).


• Now implements broader and narrower equivalence for multilingual relationships. DTD updated to version 1.3 for multilingual support.


• Added additional substitution keys for HTML generation (QIDLanguageCode, QIDLanguageName, QIDLanguageNativeName).


• A bug that appears to have surfaced under Leopard which prevented double-clicking item names in tree and list views has been squashed.


• Occasionally, a timing issue could cause Cognatrix to crash when opening a document that contained language codes. Now fixed.


• Switching to another application no longer causes Cognatrix to lose edits in user-defined fields.


• Language codes can now be up to 20 characters to support unusual requirements (no longer restricted to two or three characters for ISO names).


• SearchKit indexes generated for CognatrixSearch now include qualified names.


• New preference allows choice of delimiters for qualified names.


• A bug that appears to have surfaced under Leopard which caused a crash after printing to a PDF has been squashed.


• Corrects a problem in XML generation where a query string or other complex string in an embedded URL was unlikely to be encoded properly.

This is the “Gold Master” candidate for Cognatrix 1.6. Users are reminded that, while Cognatrix 1.6 can read Cognatrix 1.5.2 theaurus documents, Cognatrix 1.5.2 is unable to read theaurus documents saved by Cognatrix 1.6.

Version 1.6.0b3 of Cognatrix is available and can be downloaded here. This release is functionally identical to 1.6.0b2 but adds version information to the thesaurus documents it saves. This update works in conjunction with Cognatrix 1.5.2 in that thesaurus documents created by Cognatrix 1.6.0b3 (or later) will be correctly identified, rather than just silently fail to open.