After many weeks of work, and even more weeks of procrastinating, I have released a new version of my word study program, Zyzzyva. The latest release is...
You probably know this already, but I think you and I are the only current zyzzyva-users members. The new version looks super slick! One thing that I did...
Mike Howlett emailed me with a fairly serious problem in the Zyzzyva 0.9.0 release... the fonts are screwed up by default! I'm not sure why it was working on...
... Yeah, I know. :-) ... Mike Howlett saw that problem too, but it should be fixed in 0.9.1. Would you be willing to try the following to make sure the fix...
I just ran through the Linux install and thought I'd share my initial thoughts. Tried first on a Fedora Core 3 box I had at my desk. Failed on compiling Qt4....
... Thanks! I appreciate your feedback! ... This is a good feature request, thank you. Although you can't click the button by hitting Enter, you can click...
Thanks to everyone who has responded so quickly with comments and suggestions! I have just created a new release, 0.9.2, which incorporates some of the easier...
Hello, First of all, congratulations for your excellent work and thank you very much for sharing it with the rest of the scrabble community. My question is...
Great job, Michael! I particularly like the Blank Anagram (I've seen this called Blanagram) feature. That's something that will help me find more bingos if I...
... Thank you for using it, and for your comments! ... I agree, and that's one shortcoming Zyzzyva has had from the start... there are several assumptions...
... And first of all, thank you for them! These are some great suggestions. ... Yes, I agree. The random shuffle button shouldn't be difficult to implement,...
... Oh, wait a minute. After thinking about it some more, I think I'm making this more complicated than it needs to be. Here's my latest idea (and this may...
... (Snip!) ... Not what I had in mind. What I meant was an additional option in the "Search Specification". I know I can create a list from View|Blank...
The bug reports and suggestions are coming at a frenetic pace, and there have been several improvements in just the last 24 hours. So I've created a new...
Dear Michael, Thank you for your answer! ... two R tiles ... "ch", "ll" and "rr" are are always taken as single letters so that it is NOT allowed to form ,...
... Excellent! That was the answer I was hoping for... it will make the programming much simpler. ... I definitely is on the roadmap, and thank you for...
Dear Michael, Fist of all, sorry for the delay in answering your questions. ... in ... while ... that ... very ... I posted a similar answer in another group: ...
I've just released a new version, 0.9.4, which includes an OWL2 lexicon. As far as I know, the OWL2 list is accurate according to the 2-8 letter changes...
On the Windows 98 partition, I'm having an annoying problem with the self-installing version of Zyzzyva... when the program opens up a sub- window (like when...
... I'm sorry I wasn't able to fix the "window behind other windows" problem in the latest release. I wanted to get a release out with OWL2 as soon as...
I've just created a bug fix release of Zyzzyva, 0.9.5. This release fixes a bug that caused Zyzzyva to crash when executing any search containing a "Must...
Using the Windows installer, it looks like the words were installed in c:\program files\zyzzyva ... even though I selected a different installation directory...
... Oh, good catch! Thank you for trying that. I'll try to fix the installer as soon as possible, to install the data directory in the same place as the...
Good news, I upgraded the Mac OS X machine I have access to, so it's now running 10.4 (Tiger). I've been able to compile and install Qt, and Zyzzyva seems to...
On my Linux version, when a new word pops into that window it's highlighted in a shade of darkish gray that makes it a bit difficult for me to read the hooks...
... For the next version of Zyzzyva (hopefully to be released within a week or so), I'll lighten up the shade of gray... I've noticed that problem too, and...
Having procured the use of a Mac OS X machine for the weekend, I think I've finally been able to create a disk image (.dmg) file for Zyzzyva. *** THIS IS NOT...
I built static Qt libs on my iBook and I'm trying to make an installer for Quackle myself. I'll take a shot at Zyzzyva too and let you know how it goes....
... Thank you, any help you could give would be greatly appreciated! ... Thanks for trying this, and for the error messages... it looks like some frameworks in...