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@ccbogel ccbogel released this 22 Jul 23:13
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Installation

Windows

There are two easy options (see attached files at the end of the release page):

  • QualCoder.3.7.Win.Setup.exe A Windows installer, will set up QualCoder like any normal app, with entries in the start menu, etc.
  • QualCoder.3.7.Win.Portable.zip A portable app without installation. Download and unzip the archive into a folder of your choice. The portable version contains the QualCoder exe and an associated _internal folder that it needs to run successfully. Double-click the "QualCoder.exe" to run. The portable version does take longer to start up - estimate 20 seconds.

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.

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 and other Linux

Download run from the source code. See below section on run from source code.

You can also make a .desktop file for launching QualCoder:

Create a .Desktop file for launch, enter this command (adapt the file paths according to the location of the source code folder):

bash -c cd ~/.local/share/qualcoder/src/ && ~/.local/share/qualcoder/env/bin/python3.12 -m qualcoder

Run 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

  • More AI models to choose from (Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Ollama for local models).

  • AI topic analysis: now allows extending the analysis with more data, see new button at the end

  • AI code analysis: new prompt "Code Critic"

  • AI text analysis: improved source references

  • Fixed #1072

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 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.

  • 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.

Code Text

  • Added option to auto-code using Regex, enabled 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.

Code count by file / case

Select codes, then select files or cases.

This gives a table of code counts by file or case. Click on a cell to show more coding details. You can export the table to Excel.

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.

Errors in this release

There was a problem with the Charts function for the executables on the release date 23 July 2025. This was fixed, 25 July 2025.

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