![]() Do you mean for the report format? As other exports are done as text files. There is no undo, unless you open a previous backup. All changes that are made after opening are automatically updated (or autosaved if you prefer). In the settings, it automatically backs up a copy of the qualcoder folder on opening, unless switched off. * The code snippets and contextualisation – yes this is a good point, with a double click and showing another dialog window with the surrounding text. * Overlapping highlights – yes – not sure how to resolve at the moment – so will put it in the too hard basket for now. * ‘?’ does not do anything here – I am not sure what you mean. The default folder – maybe in some dialog windows I have missed this – if you come across these let me know which dialog is opened that misses the default folder – as I might have to review the code to recognise the default folder. * Forgetting settings – some are not stored to be forgotten – e.g. Or at least copy the text or screenshot for me to give me some ideas. * Uncaught exceptions – there is a log file that might give some details – if you fed it back to me to review. * The about info with 1.8 vs 1.9 – yes I forgot to update the text. * Select file dialog and the date BST vs GMT – currently I am at a loss on this, as python should draw from the computer’s current set date and time. I have limited the range of code colors available in Qualcoder to highlight black text on the coloured background, but the original RQDA colour codes I have not changed on import. One possibility is that the code colors in RQDA are very dark, and might need changing. So again will test the RQDA import on Windows my end. * The import with dark fonts on dark backgrounds – I will test on Windows – this has not occurred to me on Linux. I have made some comments below about possible changes that I may (or not) be able to do. I’m glad Qualcoder works reasonably well for you. * Open recent files would be good for efficiency * QualCoder could offer defaults for file-types when saving etc. * autosave would be nice (essential actually) More generally, double-clicking on things like the snippets, the codes tree, graph visualisations and frequencies should produce relevant info (eg contextualised text or a codes report). * snippets in code reports should be linked to the source text for context. * currently, overlapping highlights make it impossible to tell when a snippet is coded for more than one code. * QualCoder seems to forget settings I change (eg default folder, windows sizes/positions) * on a couple of occasions I got an ‘uncaught exception’ but not sure yet how * ‘show coded text and media’ shows the About info - with the wrong QualCoder version, v1.8 instead of the actual 1.9. * The ‘select file’ dialogue when importing files shows the wrong modified date compared to Windows Explorer (off by an hour, GMT rather than BST) It is coded though because when I ask QualCoder to produce a codes report it works. I changed the colours but the text on the right looks as uncoded. * importing RQDA files sort of works but the codes list in ‘Code Text’ displays as dark fonts on dark background - practically unreadable. I would think that some of these are easy to address and would improve usability. I appreciate developing QualCoder may not be a priority, but in case this feedback is useful, below are a few issues (Windows 10 圆4, QualCoder 1.9, Python 3.8 32 bit). There are a few stability issues and room for improvement of course. QualCoder already does most of the ‘code and retrieve’ work I need. I found out about QualCoder now that RQDA won’t run for many of us and its future looks uncertain. There are also some videos on how to use QualCoder: If you appreciate what I have developed please: Buy me a coffee It has taken many, many hours / days / weeks /months of work to create this software that is provided free to use under the MIT license. (You do not need to use QualCoder to transcribe speech to text). This can make a waveform display for audio/video and is needed for audio to text transcription services. This is required to play and code audio and video in QualCoder. Optionally, install the VLC video software. The current version (January 2023) is QualCoder 3.2 which is available through GitHub: Double-click these to run, they take up to 10 seconds to open. The Wiki also shows how to install from the source code for Linux, Windows and macOS, if you wish or need to build and install from the source code. ![]() The latest version release has an exe for Windows 10 and 11 and an executable for Ubuntu 22.04. The GitHub wiki contains the manual for the various functions of QualCoder.
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