QST Review!

I happened to check my iTunesConnect account recently and was shocked my a huge up swing in my Morse Elmer App sales... I tracked it down to a nice review of the app in the February 2012 issue of QST (p. 98).
Thanks to all new Morse Elmer users.

I've been getting more emails asking questions and several emails making suggestions for the next version.

I've been very busy for the last 3-4 months with my day job, but I've certainly accumulated enough bugs and feature requests to start the new version of Morse Elmer.  I'll post later what I'm considering for the new version.

Any and all input is welcomed.

Please when you get a chance go back to the App Store and rate the App.

Morse Elmer does have a user(s)

I received an email today from a Morse Elmer user!! (yes they do exist...)
He was reporting a bug... a field isn't displaying properly in the Progress/Edit view...
The second field "XX chars" is suppose to show how many characters were in your training set...
It currently shows 1 all the time... the user was using the Default Training Set.

this is a hold over from version 1.1, when there was only 1 training set.
Now I have multiple training sets... and each set has a num chars used field... because you might be training with 13 characters in the default set, but only 2 characters in the prosigns set, etc...

so what to do now... I have only one field in the database for this, but two value to store.
I can actually get the the two values into a single field, but what to do with all the values everyone already has stored in the Morse Elmer DB...?!

I get to release a new version that now has to include a CoreData Migration something or other...
upgrade everyone's db to the new format.  bleh...

Well it's something to work on.

This user also made a couple of other suggestions, some of which I'll include in the next release as well.

hmmm off to do some Core Data Migration reading.... >.<

Version 1.2 is now live!!

Just checked and the latest version of Morse Elmer is live in the App Store! :)

Next Version submitted to the App Store

Version 1.2 has been submitted to the App Store.
This version includes:

• Custom Training Sets 
• Fixed and Random word lengths 
• Delay before audio starts when training 
• 90% training goal marked on graph 
• in app options for feedback and support

Hopefully with this new version I'll get some direct feedback.

I'm looking for suggestions about how best to utilize the screen on an iPad for the 2.0 version.

Social Media

Beginning to integrate Social Media into the next version of Morse Elmer.
Mostly as a method to increase direct feedback on the app... Right now there's no way to respond to user comments in iTunes.  So I'm going to provide additional channels for them to reach me.