What’s new in version 1.5

Counterparts Lite now has a Find & Replace panel with a preview pane you can use to quickly replace occurrences of a repeated word.

The state of a row where the translation is an empty string is now set to to untranslated. Another improvement: filtering in XLIFF documents will now filter header rows for internal files that have no result for better clarity.

Detailed History

Version 1.5.7 (17 Sep. 2019)

• Fixed a crash that could occur when searching inside a file with Arabic text.

Version 1.5.6 (27 Dec. 2018)

• Now preserving the state and state-qualifier when opening and saving XLIFF documents. The attributes are discarded for rows that have been edited.

Version 1.5.5 (23 Oct. 2018)

• Fixed a bug that would sometime make the Replace button in the Find & Replace panel do nothing, or crash the app.

Version 1.5.4 (24 Sep. 2018)

Previous version added dark mode support for macOS Mojave, but there was some oversights.

• Fixed XLIFF sub-file header rows not showing up correctly in dark mode.
• More readable text color for some columns.

Version 1.5.3 (23 Sep. 2018)

• Dark mode support for macOS Mojave.

• Fixed a bug that could cause some characters to be replaced if you clicked in a cell and started typing during the small delay before the cell becomes editable.

Version 1.5.2 (19 Oct. 2017)

• Added a help topic describing keyboard shortcut in the editor window.

• Fixed a bug where XLIFF documents would grow bigger each time the file was opened and saved due to unnecessary blank lines being added between XML tags.

Version 1.5.1 (21 Sep. 2017)

• Fix for a display glitch where the state filter control would not show the numbers properly on macOS High Sierra.

Version 1.5 (31 Jul. 2017)

• New Find & Replace panel to search for text in translations and replace matches with something else. Shows a replacement preview and offers the choice of replacing or not for each row.

• Translations made of an empty string now count as untranslated. Previously only the complete absence of a translated string was counted as untranslated, but this made editing harder and state counters less reliable.

• For XLIFF documents, internal file headers are now hidden when filtering if there is no result inside that file.

• The scroll area was often already scrolled down by about half a line after opening a document. Fixed.

• Improved documentation in the Help menu. Added topics for recently added features and fixed the search index.

Version 1.4.1 (28 February 2017)

• Fixed an issue where the Remove Conflicting Row button, after editing a key that conflicts with another row, would remove both the conflicting row and the edited one.

• Fixed an issue when reading XLIFF files where some entries containing only whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, line breaks). Previously, the content of those entries would appear as empty when opening the document and saving the file would save them as empty.

Version 1.4 (20 October 2016)

• Added a Propagate Translation command in the Table menu to copy the translation on the selected row to all rows with an empty translation having the same reference text.

• There is also a new preference checkbox called “Auto-propagate translation” that will do the above automatically each time you edit a translation.

Version 1.3.2 (28 August 2016)

• Fixed an issue where closing a file while the text editor was active in a cell would fail to save the latest changes in that cell.

• In a .strings file, changing a key so it matches another key in the file made the editor misbehave. Fixed.

• The app can now update itself when an new version becomes available.

• Now comes with a 30-day free trial.

Version 1.3.1 (9 September 2015)

• Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.3 were opening certain XLIFF files would not show any string rows. (Affected files are those having “trans-unit” elements contained in “group” elements.)

• In XLIFF files, rows for “trans-units” marked as not translatable are not visible anymore.

Version 1.3 (26 August 2015)

• Added a new ring type to count and filter rows where the reference and translation are identical.

• Headers have been added when editing XLIFF files to separate rows originating from different source files.

• Font preferences can now be reset so you can easily return to the system font.

Version 1.2.2 (9 February 2015)

• Added “Adopt Reference Value” command to quickly copy the value to translation column.

• Can now copy key and reference values to the clipboard.

• Fixed a bug where editing the document while a filter is active could seemingly overwrite some values in the wrong row.

• Fix for saving error occurring sporadically with XLIFF files.

Version 1.2.1 (6 January 2015)

• Fixed an issue where the app would crash when opening a malformed XLIFF file.

Version 1.2 (22 October 2014)

• Can now change the translation language of XLIFF files.

Version 1.1.2 (29 July 2014)

• Saving a .strings file where only the value strings have been changed will preserve the internal text layout of the file.

• Similarly, when saving a .strings file with a reference file attached, the internal text layout of the file will be based on the reference file.

• Fixed an issue where sometime a newly added comment would not be saved in a .strings file.

Version 1.1.1 (9 June 2014)

• Press the left or right arrow key to put the insertion point at the beginning or at the end of this line’s text.

• Fixed issue where XLIFF files generated from multiple resources files containing the same key would get saved incorrectly.

• Fixed a crash that could happen when deleting a translation entry in such a XLIFF file.

• Fixed a crash that could happen when opening some kinds of XLIFF file.

Version 1.1 (4 June 2014)

• Added support for opening XLIFF files and editing translation strings.

Version 1.0 (26 May 2014)

• Initial release