Thank you for your interest in OA Helper, in this release a lot has happened: Improved DOI recognition ———————— Several enhancements have been made to make the recognition of Digital Object Identifiers on popular sites, such as PubMed.gov more accurate. Improved handling of unpaywall.org response ——————————————- I had made a mistake in handling the unpaywall.org […]
Several enhancements to DOI recognition For users of iOS, who have created bookmarks, you can now view them on your Mac skipped V 1.4 to be inline with iOS
For this version, I focused on improving the user experience: * in the result overview you will now see up to two lines of the title and three lines of the abstract * furthermore in the result list an icon indicates whether a PDF is readily available (green) or a click to core.ac.uk is needed […]
By default a UILabel doesn’t get any copy & paste commands in iOS. After all, it’s a label, why would you want to copy a label? It turns out, you might want to do that, if you are “abusing” a label to show something useful and in that case you probably want the entire label […]
When you are ready to localize your App, Xcode will auto-generate a Main.strings file for your Main Storboard. In that file every element of the User Interface (labels & more) are listed in the following format: /* Class = “UILabel”; text = “Subtitle”; ObjectID = “y5E-9n-LU8”; */ “y5E-9n-LU8.text” = “Untertitel”; That’s a pretty awesome format, […]
When aligning a UITextView with other labels on the screen, the inset becomes an issue. It is easy enough to work around, however if you wanted to just “switch” them off, you can add the following to your ViewDidLoad Function: textView.textContainerInset = .zero textView.textContainer.lineFragmentPadding = 0
Support for core.ac.uk in Highlight & Search New Logo, in preperation of iOS version Submitted an iOS Version (in Review)
Support for Internationalization: German translation Added basic Voice Over support (Aria Live Region) Added Keyboard Shortcut (ctrl + alt + o) Added highlight & search – will search base-search.netto use: highlight text and use right-click to select OA Search for… menu option Improved handling of “inactive” state
Improved DOI Detection for: PubMed.gov ieeexplore.ieee.org nber.org base-search.net WebScraper OA Detection for: IngentaConnect base-search.net ieeexplore.ieee.org journals.sagepub.com academic.oup.com Introduced DOI validation Using 5 Regular Expressions from CrossRef Refactored function to compare current URL to target URL Fixed several bugs, where JSON parsing failed, due to unexpected data conditions Introduced a proper About Page Updated Help Menu […]
For a project I needed to validate a 13 digit ISBN. According to Wikipedia you can validate an ISBN by calculating the checksum, but more accurately calculating the check-digit of an ISBN as follows: The ISBN-13 check digit, which is the last digit of the ISBN, must range from 0 to 9 and must be […]
