Cognatrix

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.

Cognatrix 1.5.2 has been released. This version is functionally identical to Cognatrix 1.5.1 but is able to detect an attempt to open a Cognatrix 1.6 (“multilingual”) document. Responds with the message “The document could not be opened”, rather than just doing nothing.

LGOSystems has released CognatrixSearch 1.0 which is a search engine designed to be used with Cognatrix thesauri. It runs on Mac OS X 10.4 and later (Tiger) and helps your users to find terms published in your Cognatrix thesauri. CognatrixSearch is built on SearchKit technology (ie, the same as SpotLight). It is implemented as a web “CGI”, is controlled from a “System Preferences” panel, and works with multiple thesauri out of the box. CognatrixSearch is a free add-on to Cognatrix. You will find more information here.