QualCoder 3.7

[ccbogel]

Installation

Windows

You have two options (see attached files at the end of the release page):

• QualCoder_3_7_setup.exe: a Windows installer, will set up QualCoder like any normal app, with entries in the start menu, etc.

On first use of the exe, Windows will ask you to allow to run QualCoder. This is because it is from an unknown publisher. It costs a lot of money to get a trusted publisher certificate - so that will not be possible for the foreseeable future.

MacOS

Attached to the release page you will find two options:

• QualCoder_3_7_arm64.dmg: App bundle for newer Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 ... M4 processors)
• QualCoder_3_7_x86_64.dmg: App bundle for the older Macs with Intel processor (core i5, i7, etc).

The app bundles are compiled on macOS Sequoia. They might also work on Sonoma and Ventura.

On first use of the exe, Windows will ask you to allow to run QualCoder. This is because it is from an unknown publisher. It costs a lot of money to get a trusted publisher certificate - so that will not be possible for the foreseeable future.

We are currently not able to sign the app bundles, so you will get a warning that QualCoder is from an unregistered developer. You have to manually allow the app to be executed, if your Gatekeeper is active. Follow these steps:

Double-click the downloaded dmg-file.

• Drag QualCoder into the link to your applications.
• Start QualCoder by double-clicking the app within your applications folder. You will get an error that QualCoder is from an unregistered developer. The app will not start.
• Go to Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Scroll down until you see a message stating QualCoder was prevented from starting. Click on "open anyway".
• From now on, QualCoder should start without issues.

Ubuntu 24

Note: with the executable there is an issue playing Audio/Video. I think it may be due to an internal permissions issue. Instead, download run from the source code. See below.

Install from source code on various operating systems

For install from source code, download the zip file below and use the instructions in the README file to install on your operating system.

Fedora 42 (and earlier versions) has a segmentation fault (software crashes) which is currently not fixed, regarding audio / video coding.

Changes in QualCoder 3.7

Other languages

Added translations for Swedish (verified), Chinese (unverified), Japanese (unverified). Improved Spanish translations.

Artificial Intelligence

• Improved robustness with AI models.

• More AI models readily available for use.

Attributes selection

• Attributes selection in reports. Where attribute settings are created, these can be saved and loaded for quicker subsequent use.

Manage Files

• Ctrl C, Ctrl V copy and paste into other table cells.

• Save and load table display profiles (Hidden rows and columns and column widths based on like/equals/hide parameters).

Manage Cases

• Ctrl C, Ctrl V copy and paste into other table cells.

All codings sections (pdf, text, A/V, image)

• More sort options for the codes tree

• Show codes by colour range. This is another way to trim back the size of the codes tree.

All the Coding screens - text, image, pdf, audio/video

• Now have a Find Code button, either under the codes tree or in the header section. This is a convenient way to find matching text to help find a code in a large list of codes. It highlights the first matching text code name in the tree list codes.

• All coding screens have a button to select a default colour for new codes, rather than relying on a randomly chosen colour.

Code Text

• Added option to auto-code using Regex, via a checkbox.

• Auto-code sentences - now ask you which text files you want to apply this function to, once pressing the auto-code sentences button.

Code Image

• Added Zoom In, Zoom Out, Rotate and Captions buttons.

• Added options for captions to coded image areas.

• Added ability to image code PDF pages.

• Added tooltip warning about exactly overlapping coded areas. Suggest that one of them is sightly resized or moved.

Code Audio/Video

• Added a button to save a video frame as a png.

• Added a button to import the video frame into the project. For image coding.

Code PDF

• Added Zoom In, Zoom Out buttons.

• Improved PDF image presentation (images, curves, lines, polygons - good representation).

Report Codes

• Check box option to add a reference to the coded result.

• On initial results text, right-click context menu on a reported item to add an additional code.

View Graph

Added arrow-head to the Add Line function.

Code Co-occurrence table report

• Fixed error when selecting codes. The code counts did not display in correct columns and all the code names rather than the short list were shown.
• Added option to select categories - so codes of those categories are used in the table.

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This discussion was created from the release QualCoder 3.7.

[vansorat]

Thanks for releasing 3.7! Under Assets, could you move the second MAC file so it is underneath the first one? It seems easier to locate than having the 2 Windows file between them.

[kaixxx]

Thanks for the suggestion. I had to update the mac releases anyway, so I made the naming scheme of the assets a little more consistent.