The Android edition of Plant Base is now free for all users who already have a licence for the other editions. The APK for the app can be downloaded from the website after entering the licence code as validation. The app is then “sideloaded” onto the phone or tablet (instructions for the sideload install are on the web page).
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These are major updates taking both Extra Keys and Extra Keys Pro to version 3.0.0. The user interface of the panel has been extensively revised to give a cleaner and more consistent appearance regardless of the operating system release it’s run on. There are a number of other changes plus some improvements for the Armenian and Georgian key sets.
Although … … read more
This release of the Pro edition of Extra Keys adds a new key set for the International Phonetic Alphabet. There are also a couple of other very minor changes such as adding selection options to the pop-up menu on the System Tray icon.
There is no change for the standard Extra Keys program and no plan to add the IPA … … read more
A Beta 13 update for the Linux edition of Plant Base is available on the Downloads page. This fixes a scaling bug with the Print Preview display, which was introduced in version 2.1.15 Beta 12 due to a last minute attempt to improve the print quality problem that is a known issue for Linux program. The bug fix is the … … read more
A new update of Plant Base has been released today and available on the Download page. This is for desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Primarily a maintenance release with the main objective of cleaning up and optimising some of the code. It also improves synchonisation between OS editions where a few sections had got out of step. … … read more
The Picture Gallery section of the website has been replaced by a new and quite different gallery using the Piwigo software. This provides a more modern and flexible solution than the old gallery which was composed of static HTML files. As well an improved user experience it should be much easier to maintain.
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An updated version of Plant Base has been released and is available on the Download page. This is for desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It is another maintenance update with a few small bug fixes plus some other little changes.
On the Plant List Details tab, the records can now be sorted by almost any of the … … read more
New update of Plant Base was released today and is available on the Download page. For all desktop/laptop editions – Windows, MacOS and Linux.
This is only a minor maintenance update with a few small bug fixes and other minor changes. For the Windows edition this includes support for the recently released update of Extra Keys.
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New version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.4) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.6) are now available for download.
The most noticeable change is that the key panel window no longer gets the desktop focus when a button or other control is clicked. This means that the active window does not change, which is most likely the target application for entering … … read more
There are new version updates for both Extra Keys (2.2.3) and Extra Keys Pro (2.2.5).
These are maintenance releases only and are otherwise the same as the previous recent versions. However, they have some modifications that may help resolve a problem where the keys window fails to open on a few Windows 10 systems. Not all systems were affected and … … read more