Accordance 14.0.5 Desktop Released

April 28, 2023

Accordance 14.0.5 Desktop for Mac and Windows is released! Here are the release notes. Please post any feedback in their respective forums.

Changes

Upgraded networking code:
- Easy Install speed improvements, large account optimizations, improved error handling, and updates for future features.
- Refactored to use more modern system calls.
Horizontal Syntax Tree Pane Changes
- Added vertical scroll bar to better handle large number of hierarchy levels.
- Now horizontal scroll wheel actions will adjust the verse and vertical scroll wheel actions will adjust the tree hierarchy.
In-app hyperlinks starting with https://www.accordancebible.com/link/ will now be treated the same as accord:// urls when clicked from within the app, and will just directly open the resource in accordance insead of trying to open a web browser.
Accordance will no longer ask if a user wants to load an Autosaved Session after they've done "Remove Startup Session" in Safe Mode.
Updated Biblio Formats for better support of multiple editors and other minor format tweaks.
Updated German Tutorials, Italian, and Spanish Localization.

Display Settings Fixes

Info Pane and User Notes Bible Text setting for Scripture Reference HyperText actions was not saved properly.
The display color preferences should better display the predefined color options instead of always showing "custom".
The color menu icons would sometimes not match the color menu name and change based on which popup menu was last clicked.
The Background color menu did not have the color icons to match the color menu items.
Contents and References Font settings were not always saved properly.
The display dialog will now switch to custom if parts of the theme are changed (like Version 13).
Selecting "Custom" from the theme dropdown will set the theme to the previous custom setting instead of crashing.
Display Preview not updating properly in display dialogs.
Typing in the leading field of the text style preferences would not update the slider.
Set Text/Tool Display" applies changes when user hits "Cancel".
"Show As" would re-set to "Paragraphs" in individual Text display.
Setting hit word highlight to plain text would set it to bold in text.

Targums Word Map Fixes

User Tool Commentary Fixes

User Tool Commentaries would not display scripture references in the User Tool browser nor allow scripture reference only titles/entries. Now the scripture link text is used in the browser (not display text) and scripture reference only titles are allowed.
Accordance would sometimes use the wrong hyperlink URL when filling the Edit User Tool tab.
Searching was broken if it included Ideograph characters.
The Search field popup was not properly updating when switching User Tool types.
Accordance could not create a new User Tool commentary - the file was corrupt and unreadable.
Import case that would result in a User Tool without any titles.
Potential crash when all scripture references are in the entry field.

User Tool Fixes

Allow scripture references in all User Tool types (previously would display error if User Tool type was not a Commentary)
Issue that would cause corrupt data to be saved for scripture links, which would cause a crash when clicked.
Resource links to certain modules couldn't be opened.
Original language search links would fail.
Potential issue when reporting imported User Tool title errors.

Miscellaneous Fixes

The Info Pane Pericope hyperlinks were not working properly.
The Research and User Note tabs did not properly toggle the display text colors for Light/Dark mode.
Restored the ability to shift-click the Research Groups popup menu to select more than one group to search.
Under certain conditions, when opening the Default Analytics, some Analytics tabs would be displayed over the Search tab.
Accordance URLs containing both "?" and "#" would be misread.
Issues when saving a shortcut key for a Highlight style.
Typing a 'f' would switch keyboard focus to the Research toolbar item. This is supposed to happen for Control-f only.
Crash that could occur if a user didn't have any Stack files.
Potential crash when copying certain character combinations (e.g. copying Hebrew Concordance text)
Potential crash when using Command/Ctrl+A in the library.
Crash during an Andersen-Forbes Construct search.
Multiple possible crashes after closing the WiFi sync dialog.
Potential Library crash when opening new workspace.
Potential Edit window crash when setting style to plain text.

Mac Specific fixes

Issue that was preventing linking to Dropbox due to reporting ourselves as an old browser.
Could not link to Dropbox from within the Preferences dialog.
There would sometimes be a long delay before an alert dialog was displayed.

Windows Specific fixes

Where launching Accordance by double clicking a Workspace file would just launch the default Workspace.
Certain downloaded modules with decomposed unicode characters in the titles could not be installed.
Issue that would prevent accord links from working in some cases.
Potential freeze/crash when clicking on a blank space in a Text.
Crash that could occur when drawing certain patterns in the Atlas.

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