Latest changes in Praat.

6.3.04 (24 January 2023)

•  Playing multiple sounds with Play now concatenates them without breaks, and is interruptable by the Escape key.
•  Renamed the remaining occurrences of “Preferences” with “Settings” (old scripts will continue to work).
•  Create Polygon from values...
•  Sound: To Sound (derivative)...
•  Scripting: forms now look more like other commands.
•  Scripting: forms can contain infile, outfile, folder, realvector, positivevector, integervector and naturalvector fields.
•  Scripting: in forms and pause forms, you can now set the number of lines in text, infile, outfile, folder, and vector fields.

6.3.03 (17 December 2022)

•  Sound files: read Kay® Nasometer™ files (as separate channels).
•  Script window: indent and exdent.
•  Scripting: conserve editor environment in runScript.

6.3.02 (29 November 2022)

•  Linux: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.20 by which typing Tab would not start a Sound.
•  Sound window: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.19 by which drawing selection hairs could not be switched off (or on) when painting a spectrogram to the Picture window.

6.3.01 (21 November 2022)

•  Fixed a crash introduced in 6.3 when closing an editor window by choosing Close (or by typing Command-W).

6.3 (15 November 2022)

•  Number-aware sorting for labels when drawing tables.
•  Scripting: sort$#( ), shuffle$#( ), sort_numberAware$#( ).
•  Fixed a crash when saving (or copying) a DTW object.
•  Scripting: fixed a crash when using Close after "editor".

6.2.23 (8 October 2022)

•  Fix a crash introduced in August 2020 when in the Sound window you would select a part, then click "sel", then select a part, then do Cut, then click "bak".
•  Rename should leave an object's ID in the title of the editor window.
•  Windows graphics should support a resolution of 690 dots per inch.
•  Editor scripting: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.15 whereby an added editor script would lose the editor context if it contained a form, after Apply was clicked.
•  Editor windows (such as the Sound window): showing a dialog window that calls a script (e.g. log 3, log 4 or an added command) should remove the previous version of that window.
•  Mac editor windows: dialog windows that call scripts should disappear when the editor goes away (as on Windows and Linux).

6.2.22 (6 October 2022)

•  Playing cursor in Pitch, PitchTier, KlattGrid and PointProcess windows.
•  Corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.15 whereby an added editor script would lose the editor context if it contained a form, after OK was clicked.

6.2.21 (1 October 2022)

•  Corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.15 whereby a sub-window in Inspect would crash upon clicking Change.

6.2.20 (24 September 2022)

•  More balanced colours.
•  Hierarchical menus in editor windows.
•  Sound window scripting: understand "editor$" again in log format (bug since 6.2.15).

6.2.19 (12 September 2022)

•  Visible window queries in Time menu.
•  Correct execution of added Objects window script after running a failing editor script (decades-old bug).
•  Made Erase first work again (bug introduced in 6.2.15).

6.2.18 (2 September 2022)

•  SoundRecorder: support for up to 20 (instead of 8) input devices.
•  FormantPath window: can now be viewed even without a Sound.
•  Windows audio: SoundRecorder prevents high CPU usage when not recording.

6.2.17 (23 August 2022)

•  FormantPath window: more information shown.
•  Windows audio: compatible with speakers that do not support mono.
•  Editor scripts: made two old commands available again (removed in 6.2.15).

6.2.16 (18 August 2022)

•  FormantPath window: non-editable TextGrid.
•  Scripting the Demo window on the Mac: better guarantees that demoShow() actually drains on current systems.
•  TextGrid works again with LongSound (bug introduced in 6.2.15).
•  Editor scripts work again from menus (bug introduced in 6.2.15).

6.2.15 (14 August 2022)

•  Legends in editor windows.
•  The menus Time and Play are new in editor windows, and the menus Spectrum and Formant were renamed to Spectrogram and Formants.
•  More menu commands in editor windows.
•  Rid frames around areas in editor window, except if editable.
•  The FormantPath window can include a copy of a TextGrid.
•  Restored horizontal and vertical dragging in tier areas (had been absent for two years).
•  Removed several small bugs (and probably introduced a couple of new ones) in editor windows.
•  Restored the original Praat icon.

6.2.14 (24 May 2022)

•  TextGrid window: repaired a bug introduced in 6.2.10 by which a click on the boundary insertion circle would copy the contents of a new interval from another tier (if that other tier stood selected).

6.2.13 (18 May 2022)

•  Playing a sound on the Mac: prevented an audible click at the end of audio output (appending a silence at the end is no longer needed).
•  FormantPath window: more flexible visualization.
•  New versions of PortAudio and Unicode.
•  Removed the sendpraat directive.
•  Removed several small interface bugs, and improved manual.

6.2.12 (17 April 2022)

•  Table: Get sum...
•  Scripting an editor window can now query analyses that are not visible (e.g. after zooming).

6.2.11 (8 April 2022)

•  Windows: Demo window could hang with use of Chinese keyboard (after Play).

6.2.10 (17 March 2022)

•  TextGrid window: restored the splitting of labels.
•  Save Demo Window as PDF file... (Goodies menu).

6.2.09 (15 February 2022)

•  Windows: support for a screen resolution of 204 dpi.

6.2.08 (5 February 2022)

•  Mac: more checks on audio devices when playing sounds.

6.2.07 (28 January 2022)

•  Prevented a rare crash in the TextGrid window.
•  Windows: corrected a bug introduced in 6.2.04 by which some file names were unreadable.

6.2.06 (20 January 2022)

•  Mac: prevent Demo window from hanging on copy or paste.

6.2.05 (5 January 2022)

•  Calling Praat from the command line: the switch --send sends a script to a different already running GUI instance of Praat; this is more flexible than using sendpraat, because --send will start a new instance of Praat if Praat is not yet running.

6.2.04 (18 December 2021)

•  Praat now includes eSpeak 1.51, raising the number of supported languages from 100 to 130.
•  Scripting: support for infile, outfile and folder fields in forms.
•  Calling Praat from the command line: the switch --open now adds files to an already running instance of Praat; this was already the case on Windows, but it now works in the same way on the Mac and on Linux.
•  Scripting on Mac: multiline text fields in forms have scroll bars and behave like other fields.

6.2.03 (3 December 2021)

•  Mac: made Enter key work as expected (i.e. character selection) on Japanese keyboards in multi-line text fields in dialogs and TextGrid window.

6.2.02 (2 December 2021)

•  Fixed a hang if there were negative pitch values in Sound: Change Gender.
•  Fixed a crash if the size of a PCA did not match the size of a TableOfReal.

6.2.01 (17 November 2021)

•  Sound window: corrected a bug that caused a thick waveform during or after playing.

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