Once again, thanks for all of the great feedback. Small reminder for everyone, though: we're still not really looking for reports on minor/aesthetic issues, we're pretty much only interested in big crashing / lost data issues as described in the Beta 1 thread. All of this is very useful, but since a lot of it was likely to come out anyway in our own internal testing you don't really need to spend time reporting it yet - we'll let you know when we're at a point where we expect everything to work completely correctly. If Minor Feature X isn't working it's most likely because we either haven't finished implementing it or haven't finished debugging it yet.
ipsi - glad to hear it! And yes, the radical file is unchanged, though there's a small chance there might be a filename conflict with the old version (in which case renaming with FileZ would fix it, the software actually doesn't care at all what files are named).
ldolse - We didn't even know the C-E half remembered the last word/dict, actually; that whole area hasn't really been properly debugged yet. So that's sort of an anti-bug report
Back and forward were just made usable the day before Beta 2 came out so there's a lot of debugging left to be done there too. Are you sure the 'A' entries are missing or is it possible they might be just be farther down in the dictionary?
We haven't noticed any delays in handwriting input in our testing - is anyone else experiencing anything like this? And which "rare" characters are you referring to? The full CJK Unified block should be covered, we don't include Extension A/B since they're not supported by our fonts or handwriting recognizer and hence there wouldn't really be any point to having the info for them. Full-text search is still very buggy, View/Search is gone but we haven't cleaned up the menus yet, and highlight-tap is actually on the way out too (replaced by a tap-hold menu as on Pocket PC) so that's why we haven't done much cleanup on that.
The Duelist - glad you've finally gotten the flashcard system semi-working. We haven't done any testing of it with display resizing yet, so that explains most of the problems you mention.. not sure about the reveal fields not working, though, it's definitely been implemented and we've even successfully tested it once or twice. Hardware buttons don't work at all yet, as mentioned in the known issues thread - alt commands, assuming we leave them in, will simply be other commands that will run if you're in a context where the default one won't, so for example you can combine reveal with correct so that pressing a button when a card is hidden in self-scored mode will reveal it but pressing that same button again will mark it correct.
haraldalbrecht - glad to hear the FileZ and search delay tips helped. We'll do some testing with this sound issue, the Palm sound code underwent heavy revisions to get the multi-syllable breakdown feature working correctly so there's a whole lot of bug potential there. The tone color dialog should exit when you select a color, so I'm not sure why it's not yet... with radicals, that file was missing in the Beta 2 archive but you can download it
here (same beta username/password). Tones aren't being spoken because we didn't record toneless versions of most Mandarin syllables since they're either never actually spoken that way or sound basically identical to first-tone - we'll eventually fix this by having it just play the first-tone syllable in those cases. And good point about negative options, though in this case I'm not wild about making this an option at all; the Chinese-character icons generate a lot of complaints from people not learning characters, though, so in keeping with our philosophy of staying out of pedagogical debates it seemed like a good idea to gl along with their requests.
grabolus - not sure about that handwriting glitch, but that layout code needs some extensive debugging in general. Hardware buttons don't work yet, as discussed elsewhere, and yes, the PD1 and PD2 handwriting files are completely identical so you should be able to use either set without any problems. As for expected reactions, we're still changing enough of the design that we don't want to waste time writing documentation that will quickly be out-of-date, so this sort of very specific feedback should probably wait for a later, interface-final beta version.
Font size is configured in Preferences now, didn't seem like something we really needed to have in the toolbar anymore, recent queries are another thing we haven't implemented yet (see the Known Issues list for more of this), same goes for append dict names and multi-dict results, and reader is buggy with some file types so that probably explains that crash.
FUmminger - it definitely looks like there's something wrong with preferences being saved, sfrrr mentions the same issue as do several other people, so hopefully we'll get that fixed soon.
ipsi again - we haven't done the slightest bit of testing with the document reader on non-UTF8 yet, so it's not surprising it doesn't work - only just got that working with flashcard import.
sfrrr - thanks! Not sure what's going on with the slowed voice, but most of this other stuff sounds like it has to do with corrupted preferences, including the search not working (likely because the delay timer was reset to something very large). Auto-detect language still doesn't work very well but it's in the pipeline, like so many other things, and it should eventually do a much better job of remembering the last dict / language used too.
Duplicate checking in flashcards doesn't work at all yet, but I'm not sure why the cards wouldn't be created at all - it seems unlikely this is a database corruption issue since the SQLite code has been very very extensively used/tested outside of Pleco, but did you make sure to set Manage Cards to look for the cards you'd just created, say by making the search for cards created later than 1/1/70 or some other long-ago date? Flashcard Central was mainly intended to get rid of the unbelievably-common support question of "how do I access flashcards," the newbie-friendly toolbar layout will have a nice helpful flashcard-launching button, but I suppose we could consider adding direct links to manage/session somewhere for the benefit of expert users.
