We are pleased to announce an updated QualCoder, version 3.7 is now available.

This includes a Window installer and applications for macOS. As well as the usual source code and install from source code instructions.

https://github.com/ccbogel/QualCoder/releases/tag/3.7

My thanks to: Kai for updating the AI, other fixes and creating the executables; to Lorenzo for the Spanish updates and Joffre for the Swedish translation.

The changes are detailed below, and on the releases page.

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.
• There is now a Find Code button, either under the codes tree or in the header section. This is a convenient way to find matching code name 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 defaulting to 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.

Happy qualitative coding,

with regards Colin

https://aldats.dev/blog/launch-qualcoder-without-terminal

Creating the QualCoder Script

1. Create a file named qualcoder in your preferred text editor.
2. Copy the Bash script below and paste it into the qualcoder file.
   
   #!/bin/bash

QUALCODER_DIRECTORY="/home/aldats/Documents/qualcoder"

source $QUALCODER_DIRECTORY/qualcoder/bin/activate
$QUALCODER_DIRECTORY/qualcoder/bin/qualcoder &
   
3. Replace the value for QUALCODER_DIRECTORY on line 3 with the full path to your QualCoder installation.
4. Mark the file qualcoder as executable. This can be done with the command chmod +x qualcoder.
5. Enter the command ./qualcoder. QualCoder should launch.

Moving the QualCoder Script to a PATH Directory

1. In a terminal, enter the command echo $PATH. This prints the value of your PATH variable.
2. Observe output similar to below. Paths are separated by a colon (:).
   /home/aldats/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin
3. Pick one of the paths in your PATH output. I picked /home/aldats/.local/bin.
4. Move your qualcoder script to the directory at the path you picked.
5. Open a new terminal.
6. In the new terminal, enter the command qualcoder. QualCoder should launch.

Second: Run QualCoder From a Launcher

On Linux, launchers generate a list of launchable programs by looking for special desktop files in directories like /usr/share/applications/ and ~/.local/share/applications/. If you make a desktop file for QualCoder in one of these directories, you can run QualCoder with a launcher.

1. Create a file named qualcoder.desktop in your preferred text editor.
2. Copy the below text and paste it into qualcoder.desktop.
   [Desktop Entry]
Name=QualCoder
Exec=qualcoder
Type=Application
StartupWMCClass=qualcoder
3. Move your qualcoder.desktop file to a directory your launcher will find desktop files in, like /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications/.
4. In your launcher, look up “QualCoder” and launch.