Random Word Generator Revision History

Version 33.0 (August 2nd, 2023)

• Added the Romanian.RWG project, which generates random Romanian words.
• Added the "Search Components" tool.
• Added the ability to select multiple rows of the Components table by holding down the Ctrl key.  The Delete and Duplicate tools support multiple selections.
• Deduplicate Components: this now lists all of the duplicate components.
• Import Components: when the "Deduplicate" option is enabled, this now also looks for a duplicate in the import data, not just in the pre-existing table contents.
• Added hotkeys for Lookup Dictionary (F3) and Lookup Thesaurus (F4).
• Improved how English.rwg handles "y" as both a vowel and a consonant.
• Added to the "Help" menu a link to the web page where the Spell Checker can be downloaded.
• Generate To File: Target Filepath: added an "Open File" tool to the context menu.
• Added 331 nouns and adjectives to the "Adjectives-Nouns.rwg" project.
• The "Adjectives-Nouns.rwg" project no longer puts words that are both an adjective and a noun on separate rows.
• Now only numbers can be typed into the Frequency columns.
• Added the "Cerulean" skin.  Redesigned the "Purples" skin and renamed it "Purpendicular".
• When choosing a file from the history at the bottom of the File menu, if it does not exist, the error window now contains a "Explore" button that will open File Explorer to that folder.
• Help file: Search tab: added two buttons that allow you to jump to the next/previous search occurrence.
• Added the ability to delete an item from the File History at the bottom of the File menu.
• The interface icons have been slightly desaturated.
• Updated PCRE2 from 10.40 to 10.42
• Fixed: removed some unnecessary tools from the context menu of the generated random word editbox.
• Fixed: menus did not support fixed-pitch fonts.

Version 32.0 (June 30th, 2022)

• Added the Ukrainian.RWG project, which generates random Ukrainian words.
• Anagram Finder: this now deduplicates results that are the same words but in a different order (e.g. "and the", "the and").  This requires version 4.3 of the Spell Checking Module.
• Components table: it is now possible to click on a cell in the "#" column, and drag the row to a new position.
• Components table: there is now a button for the Import Components tool below the table.
• Components table: added buttons for moving a row up or down.
• Import Components: when importing CSV, there is a new dialog with "No column names" and "Ignore if already present" options.
• Import Components: when importing CSV from the clipboard, this no longer produces an error if there is only one column.
• Import Components: the first imported row is now selected.
• Statistics: added support for unicode in the Component Text.
• Anagram Finder: this will now remember the letters from the last session.
• Added 379 nouns and adjectives to the "Adjectives-Nouns.rwg" project.
• Removed many unnecessary 3D borders for a more modern look.  Improved the appearance of scrollbars.
• Removed the divider bar above the buttons at the bottom of all windows.
• Groupboxes now have separate colors for text and border.
• Help: the layout is now tighter.  Numerous improvements to the Search tab.
• Updated PCRE2 from 10.22 to 10.40
• When choosing a file from the history at the bottom of the File menu, if it does not exist, the error window now contains a "Remove" button that will remove the file from the history.
• The "Discard Duplicate Components" tool was renamed "Deduplicate Components".
• Fixed: switching to a new tab was not always restoring focus to the control that had it last.
• Fixed a bug that was causing an unnecessary usage of memory in many situations.

Version 31.0 (August 3rd, 2021)

• Added the Russian.RWG project, which generates random Russian words.
• Added the "Paste Components" tool.
• Added a Thesaurus Lookup button for each word generated by the "Generate Real Words" and "Word Builder" tools.
• Added icons to the five main tabs.
• Added 418 nouns to the "Adjectives-Nouns.rwg" project.
• Show Common Tasks: added the "Generate Paragraphs" tool.
• Generate Letter Combinations: Display In Window: added Copy/Save As/Print buttons.
• Added the "#" column to the Components table.  This simply shows the row number.
• The "Import components from project" and "Import components from CSV" tools have been combined into one tool.
• Spell Checker: eliminated some 2 letter words that are not words and pollute the Anagram Finder.
• When clicking on a control that is disabled because of an unchecked checkbox, the checkbox will flash briefly.
• Added the "Seraph" skin.
• Improved the mouse-over effect of transparent buttons that are inside an editbox's interior.
• Added the "Show Welcome Panel" option to the Options menu.  Previously it could not be disabled.
• Show Common Tasks: added a mouse-over effect.
• Welcome: added a "Remove All Projects" tool.
• Numerous minor interface improvements.
• The installer will now put files needed for uninstallation in a subfolder named "Uninstall" rather than in the main folder.

Version 30.0 (August 24th, 2020)

• Added the ability to control how many random words appear on the Generate window.
• Added the Greek.RWG project, which generates random Greek words.
• Generate Real Words: added the ability to force generated words to match a Regular Expression.
• Added a Dictionary Lookup button for each word generated by the "Generate Real Words" and "Word Builder" tools.
• The main row of tabs is now a row of buttons.
• Generate/Extrapolate To File: the Output Filepath now maintains a history of past inputs in a drop-down list.
• Added 565 nouns to the "Adjectives-Nouns.rwg" project.
• Generate Paragraphs: added Copy/Save/Print buttons.
• The Generate Paragraphs tool now appears on the Welcome Panel.
• The active tab is now remembered between sessions.
• Match Regular Expression: added a help button.
• Customize Toolbar: it is now possible to force a row-break.
• The toolbar will no longer lose the user's customization when a new version is installed and new icons have been introduced.
• The /cp command line switch will now report a fatal error if the codepage is invalid.
• The "Spell Check Components" tool now appears on the Components Table's context menu.
• Generate Letter Combinations now uses memory more efficiently.
• The "Generate: Textless Buttons" option is now enabled by default.
• The "Project Properties" tool can now appear on the toolbar, although it is hidden by default.
• The toolbar is no longer visible when no project is open.
• Numerous minor improvements.
• Fixed a minor memory leak.

Version 29.0 (September 11th, 2019)

• Added the "Generate Paragraphs" tool.
• Added the Latin.RWG project, which generates random Latin words.
• Word Builder: added the ability to force generated words to match a Regular Expression.
• Added 636 components to the "Adjectives-Nouns.rwg" project.
• Added the /cp command line switch, which specifies a code page when performing a Generate To File (/gf).
• The Regex Tester tool will now remember its window position, global settings, the Regex, the Subject, and the Case Sensitive option.
• Match Regular Expression: added a button that launches the Regex Tester tool.
• Speak All: this will not speak the "[FAIL]" or "[ABORTED]" error messages, if present.
• The Generate/Extrapolate To File windows will now remember their window position and global settings.
• The "Bar Drawer" control now allows the bar to be horizontally scrolled if the tab labels are too wide for the control.
• Generate window: Generate More now has a hotkey, F5.
• The interface now supports mouse tilt wheel.
• Welcome: Recent Projects: added a context menu button.
• Welcome: Recent Projects: added a "Copy Filepath" tool.
• The Validate Components tool now appears on the Edit menu.  Previously, it could only be launched from the Components Table's context menu.
• Welcome: if the clipboard contains a project file, you can now press Ctrl+V to open the file.
• It is now possible to enter rndword.exe into the "Run" system dialog (Win+R) without a path.
• Fixed: copy/paste could fail if another window has the clipboard open.  Now it will retry many times over a brief period.
• Fixed: unminimizing on a secondary monitor was moving the window to the primary monitor.
• Fixed: error when saving project to Google Drive.
• Fixed: Help: Print: some hyperlinks were not followed by the page number.
• Fixed: possible crash when right clicking on an editbox.

Version 28.0 (February 11th, 2019)

• Added the ability to force generated words to match a Regular Expression.
• Added the Danish.RWG project, which generates random Danish words.
• Generate window: added support for the Forward/Back multimedia keys that are on some keyboards.
• Generate window: added a "Generate More" tool to the Words menu.  Unlike the "More" button, this does not go forward in the history, it always generates a fresh set of random words.
• Copy All: this will not copy the "[FAIL]" or "[ABORTED]" error messages, if present.
• Generate window: added the "Dictionary Lookup" and "Thesaurus Lookup" tools to the Words menu.  Previously, these only appeared on an editbox's context menu.
• Generate window: the editboxes now support keyboard macros.
• Added 152 components to the "Insults.rwg" project.
• Spell Check Components: this now reports the number of words checked and the number of misspellings fixed.
• Bar Drawer: when changing folders, there is now an animation effect.
• Generate window: Speak All now has a hotkey: F8
• Added the /glc command line switch, which launches the Generate Letter Combinations tool.
• Word Builder/Generate Real Words: the Filepath field will now remember past inputs in a drop-down list.
• Most windows now calculate their width as a factor of the interface font size.  Previously they were a factor of the screen size.  This ensures that windows are the optimal size, even when the font is very small or very large relative to the screen.
• For all tools that generate a file, added an "Explore" button to the window that appears afterwards.  Also, the size of the file is reported.
• The "Statistics" tool now also appears on the Components table's context menu.
• Welcome: if the Recent Projects List has two projects with the same filename, now both of them will be listed by their full filepath.
• Welcome: Delete Project: the file is now moved to the Recycle Bin.
• Fixed: Spell Check Components: the "Misspelling Found" window would not appear unless the Components tab was active.
• Fixed: Generate/Extrapolate: clicking Abort was causing the remaining ungenerated words to be filled with garbage characters.
• Fixed: Dictionary Mode: Allow Only Real Words: this is now faster and much less likely to produce a failure.

Version 27.0 (September 21st, 2018)

• Added the Hungarian.RWG project, which generates random Hungarian words.
• Generate window: added the "Speak All" tool.
• Added the "Spell Check Components" tool to the Edit menu.
• Generate window: added a menu bar.
• Generate window: the Back button now has a hotkey, Alt+Left.
• Added a "Context" button to the bottom of the Components table and the Formats editbox.
• Added an "Illegal Strings" field to the Generate Real Words and Word Builder tools.  Previously these tools used the project field.
• The Generate Real Words and Word Builder tools now use a "drawer of tabs" to group their settings.
• Added the "Alphabetize Components" tool to the Edit menu.
• Add Component: if the table is not sorted, this will now insert the new row immediately after the row with focus.
• Added 146 components to the "Compliments.rwg" project.
• Added an "Open File" tool to the context menu of the Target Filepath field in the Generate Real Words and Word Builder tools.
• The toolbar can now have more than one row of tools.
• Word Builder: the Target Filepath now supports unicode.
• Trim Components: if there is no whitespace to trim, this is now reported immediately before the user is asked for confirmation.
• Added the /grw command line switch, which launches the Generate Real Words tool.
• Validate Component Table: this will now report an error if any two rows are duplicates.
• Each user that logs into the system now has a separate set of preferences and global settings.
• The "Import components from CSV" tool now appears on the Components Table's context menu.
• The Customize Toolbar window now remembers preferences such as its position and the table column widths.
• Welcome: if the project doesn't exist, there is now a button to remove it from the list.
• Welcome: there is now an icon next to the title.
• Fixed: graphical corruption when launching RWG if the "Auto-Open Last Project" option is enabled.
• Fixed: going back in the history, then clicking the "Variations" button, was generating variations of the most recently generated word and not the historical word.
• Fixed: Generate Real Words/Word Builder: the Dictionary and Thesaurus lookups were broken.
• Fixed: Generate Window: the Enter key was not behaving correctly.

Version 26.0 (April 30th, 2018)

• It is now possible to move backward and forward in a history of recently generated words.  Added a "Back" button to the window where generated words are displayed.  This also applies to the Extrapolate, Generate Real Words, and Word Builder tools.
• Added the Czech.RWG project, which generates random Czech words.
• When choosing "Extrapolate" from the Welcome Panel, the user is now prompted to specify the extrapolation word.  Previously it used the one specified in the project.
• The Word Builder tool now obeys the project's "Illegal Strings" field.
• Generate Letter Combinations: added the ability to specify the code page of the output file.
• Added the "Generate: Textless Buttons" option to the Options menu.
• Added the "Welcome: Alphabetize Projects" option to the Options menu.
• Open on the File menu and toolbar now ignore the selected project in the Welcome Panel and instead prompt you to specify a project.
• Components Table: the Duplicate Row tool now has a hotkey, Shift+F2.
• Added a "Validate Component Table" tool to the Components Table's context menu.
• Added the /wb command line switch, which launches the Word Builder tool.
• Added a "Speak" tool to the Help viewer.
• Generate Real Words: the Target Filepath now supports unicode.
• Generate/Extrapolate To File: the Alphabetize option is now compatible with UTF-16 big endian.
• Generate/Extrapolate To File: the last separator is now omitted when using the Alphabetize option.
• The /gf command line switch will now generate the file in the same Code Page that was last used when the Generate To File tool was run.  Previously it was always UTF-16.
• Added the "Hyperborean" skin.  Numerous skin improvements.
• Help: added the "Rectangle" Selection Mode, which is useful for copying columns of text.
• The toolbar's size can now be adjusted by hovering the mouse over it, holding down the Ctrl key, and spinning the mouse wheel.
• On the first launch, the user now has a chance to choose the interface skin and font.
• Now supports installation to a path that contains unicode.
• Editbox: Search/Replace: added support for Regular Expressions.

Version 25.0 (August 7th, 2017)

• Added the Dutch.RWG project, which generates random Dutch words.
• The Welcome Window is no longer a separate window.  It now appears in the main window's interior when no project is open.
• Generate/Extrapolate To File: the Alphabetize option is now compatible with a non-newline separator.
• Implemented a superior random number generator.
• Generate Letter Combinations: added support for unicode.
• Numerous interface improvements, especially regarding 4K monitors.
• Word Builder/Generate Real Words: the Language is now chosen on the tool's dialog.  Previously they used the language specified in the project, which was confusing.
• Added the "Duplicate Row" button to the bottom of the Components Table.  This tool previously only appeared on the context menu.  Also, this tool now inserts the new row directly after the current row instead of at the end of the table.
• The "Generate" shell context option (which appears when right clicking on a .RWG file) now displays the generated words in the standard "Generate" window instead of a simple text window.
• Added the "/af" command line switch, which launches the Anagram Finder.
• The "Word Separator" field is no longer shared between the Generate To File and Extrapolate To File tools.
• Generate All Possible Combinations: the target filepath now supports unicode.
• Anagram Finder: the results window now allows a selection to be made with the keyboard.
• The "Discard Duplicate Components" tool now appears on the Components Table's context menu.
• Added the "Clipboard Inspector" tool to the Interface menu.
• Project Properties: all fields now support unicode.
• Moved the "Statistics" tool from the Tools menu to the Edit menu.
• Fixed: when maximized, the window's border could possibly be visible on a secondary monitor.
• Fixed: possible window flicker on 4K monitors, or when many System-G windows are open, or when kernel memory becomes scarce.
• Fixed: the "Lock Project" option was preventing backups from being made.
• Fixed: Generate/Extrapolate To File: alphabetizing was not in the correct order with respect to unicode.
• Fixed: Extrapolate To File: crash if unable to create file.

Version 24.0 (January 9th, 2017)

• Added the Polish.RWG project, which generates random Polish words.
• Generate Letter Combinations: added the "Prevent Profanity" option.
• Generate Real Words: the "Illegal Strings" project setting is now obeyed.
• Generate All Possible Combinations: the "Prevent Profanity" project setting is now obeyed.
• When a global setting is changed, it will now be automatically applied to all other running instances.  Previously, each instance held an independent copy of the global settings, and the global settings file was completely overwritten when an instance closed.  If a global setting was changed while multiple instances were opened, the change would not affect the other instances, and might not be permanent depending on the order that the instances were closed.
• Welcome: added the "Open Containing Folder" tool.
• Generate To File/Extrapolate To File/Generate Combinations: the output filepath now supports unicode.
• Welcome: the Rename Project tool now has a hotkey, F2.
• The /g command line switch can now produce alphabetized output: specify the /a switch.  Also, /g will not influence the history of recently opened projects.
• If the /g switch is not followed by the number of words to generate, it will now display the normal Generate window.
• The /g, /gf, and /ef switches will never ask if the project should be saved.
• The Component Separator field now supports unicode.
• Welcome: if another instance already has the Welcome window open, it will be brought to the foreground and the current instance will terminate.
• Multiline editboxes: Search and Replace: added support for search/replace strings that contain multiple lines.
• Multiline editboxes: added support for selecting columns of text.  Hold down the Alt key while selecting with the mouse.
• Added the "Customize Toolbar" tool to the Options menu.
• Customize Toolbar: added a new column that contains an overview of the tool.
• Statistics: the "Top 20" sections of the report are now "Top 25".
• The uninstaller now removes the project backups.
• Added 32 tools to the System Tools tool.
• Removed the "File Separator" project field, because it was an unnecessary duplicate of the field on the Generate To File and Extrapolate To File dialogs.
• Fixed: Restore Project Backup: an error would occur if you specified to copy the backup to a new, non-existing file.

Version 23.0 (June 15th, 2016)

• Added the "Welcome" window, which helps the user get to work faster.
• Added the Swedish.RWG project, which generates random Swedish words.
• Unicode Character Map: added the ability to create a list of favorite characters.
• Project filenames now support unicode characters.
• Command line parameters now support unicode characters.
• Unicode surrogate pairs are now supported.
• Generate All Possible Combinations: the "Illegal Strings" project setting is now obeyed.
• Insert Prefix/Suffix: added support for unicode characters.
• Statistics: added a summary of the total number of format codes in all of the formats.
• Added the "/sep" command line switch which is used to specify the file separator.
• Added the "/rp" command line switch which will randomize the order of paragraphs in a text file.
• Generate/Extrapolate: the F7 hotkey will now copy all 10 random words to the clipboard.
• The "File Separator" field now supports unicode characters.
• Fixed: Generate To File: if "Line-Break" was checked, the separator was instead taken from the project setting.
• Fixed: if no path was specified for the /ef switch output file, the file would be created but would be empty.
• Fixed: the /g switch was only displaying the first letter of each generated word.  This was affecting the "Insult Of The Day" feature.
• Fixed: rarely, balloon help was not appearing promptly, or not at all.

Version 22.0 (December 29th, 2015)

• Added support for unicode characters in the Component Text column of the Components Table.  Unfortunately, this breaks forward compatibility.  Projects saved by this version cannot be opened by earlier versions.
• Added the Portuguese.RWG project, which generates random Portuguese words.
• The "Extrapolate On Word" field now supports unicode characters.
• The "Illegal Strings" field now supports unicode characters.
• Added the optional /a command line switch in support of the /gf and /ef switches.  It will cause the generated word list to be alphabetized.
• Generate/Extrapolate To File:  added the ability to choose the file's character encoding (code page).
• Numerous improvements to the project backup system.
• Statistics: added a summary of the total number of format codes in all of the components.
• Extrapolate To File:  there are now radio buttons to control whether a line-break is inserted between generated words, or a piece of text.
• The "Generate To File" and "Extrapolate To File" tools no longer share the same Word Count field.
• The /gf and /ef switches will no longer change which project is opened the next time RWG starts.
• Extrapolate: an error is now reported if the extrapolation word contains only literals and/or asterisks.
• The "Customize Toolbar" window now allows you to change the toolbar size.
• Fixed: a DLL injection security vulnerability.
• Fixed: some pairs of characters, in certain fonts, were displayed too close together.
• Fixed: a rare but serious problem could cause a window to render incorrectly.

Version 21.1 (June 13th, 2015)

• Fixed a graphical glitch in icons that would only occur on 64-bit operating systems, and only when hovering the mouse over a button.

Version 21.0 (June 3rd, 2015)

• Added the Italian.RWG project, which generates random Italian words.
• Added the "w" format code for double vowels.  This improves random word suitability, especially for non-English languages.
• Improved the appearance of icons.  Changed from 8-bit GIF's to higher resolution 32-bit PNG's.  Many icons have been redesigned.
• Extrapolate:  an asterisk character (*) will be replaced with a wholly random word (using the project settings).
• Added the "Alphabetize" option to the Extrapolate To File tool.
• Generate To File:  there are now radio buttons to control whether a line-break is inserted between generated words, or a piece of text.
• The Extrapolate To File tool now has a hotkey: Shift+F8.
• The "Generate To File" and "Generate All Possible Combinations" tools no longer share the same Filepath field.
• Default.RWG has been renamed English.RWG.
• Generate Letter Combinations: if Eliminate Duplicates is checked, the reported number of combinations is now correct.
• Generate Letter Combinations: if there are too many possibilities for the Eliminate Duplicates option to function, the dialog will reappear after the error message closes.
• Fixed: the German.rwg project did not have the Eszett character.
• Fixed: a glitch was sometimes apparent at the bottom of a toolbar icon.

Version 20.0 (October 8th, 2014)

• Added the French.RWG project, which generates random French words.
• Added the "Match Pattern" feature to the Word Builder tool.
• Added labels under the toolbar icons.
• Redesigned the Default skin.  The old skin was renamed "Air".
• Added the "Prevent Profanity" option to the Generate Real Words and Word Builder tools.
• Added the "Alphabetize" option to the Generate Random Words To File tool.
• You may now put a quoted sub-string in the Extrapolate On Word field.  It will be treated as a literal, and will appear in each generated word unmodified.
• The installer now installs the language statistics file for German, Spanish, and French.
• By default, the toolbar is now visible and the common tasks are now hidden.
• The "Generate Real Words" and "Word Builder" tools no longer share the same Filepath field.
• After closing the Anagram Results window, the Anagram Finder tool will now automatically restart.
• Added a "Refine" button to the error window that is displayed when the Word Builder found no qualifying words.  Clicking this will re-enter the Word Builder.
• If the Generate Real Words tool cannot find any qualifying words, it will now report the total number of rejected words for each reason.
• Added the F9 hotkey for Generate Real Words and the F10 hotkey for Word Builder.  The Add Component hotkey has changed to F2.
• The default Number Of Attempts has increased from 10,000 to 25,000.
• Added a graphical banner to the top of the Anagram Finder window.

Version 19.0 (October 7th, 2013)

• Added the German.RWG project, which generates random German words.
• Added the Dictionary Language field to the Restrictions tab.
• The Anagram Finder is now much faster.  Please install version 3.0 of the Spell Checking Module.
• Added the "Minimum Length" and "Maximum Length" settings to the Generate Real Words tool.
• Redesigned the project backup system.  Instead of making just 1 backup, now up to 20 are kept.  Added the "Restore project backup" tool to the File menu.
• Minor interface improvements.
• The Anagram Finder will now remember the letters from the last operation.
• Added the "Refine" button to the "No anagrams found" window.
• If the Word Builder cannot find any qualifying words, it will now report the total number of rejected words for each reason.
• The Anagram Finder now reports the total number of words in the dictionary.
• The Extrapolate To File tool now keeps its own memory of the filepath, separate from the Generate To File tool.
• The Anagram Finder now has a hotkey, F4.
• Added a graphical banner to the Extrapolate To File window.
• After product activation, the user is now given the opportunity to download and install a free upgrade to the latest version.
• Added the "System Tools" launcher to the Interface menu.
• When generating a file from various tools, the file can now be opened in other programs (read-only) before the operation is completed.
• Fixed: the Anagram Finder was not correctly handling one letter words with Spanish.

Version 18.1 (February 7th, 2013)

• Fixed a rare stack overflow (since 18.0).

Version 18.0 (January 23rd, 2013)

• Major interface improvements.  Improved all skins.
• Added the Spanish.RWG project, which generates random Spanish words.
• Default.RWG: the frequency of long formats has been reduced.  The average length of a generated word is now shorter, which should improve the number of useful words.
• Default.RWG: proper nouns and abbreviations are now excluded from the statistics that are used to calculate the frequencies of all components and formats.  This should slightly improve the quality of random words.
• Added the "Thesaurus Lookup" tool to the context menu for each editbox where a random word is generated.
• Added the "Separator" field to the Word Builder tool.
• Generated words can now be edited.  This can be useful before using the Copy or Variations tools.
• When generating a file, an error is now reported if the user attempts to overwrite the dictionary cache file.
• When any tool generates a file, the last separator is now omitted.
• When any tool fails to generate a file, a description of the error is now provided to aid troubleshooting.
• If the Word Builder cannot find any qualifying words, it will now report the total number of words in the dictionary to aid troubleshooting.
• After aborting the Anagram Finder tool, the application will now restart.  Previously, it would simply terminate.
• Fixed: the Word Builder's "Alphabetize" feature is no longer case sensitive.
• Fixed: the "Generate Real Words" tool was discarding all whitespace around the Separator field (between sessions).

Version 17.0 (March 14th, 2012)

• Major interface improvements.
• Added the ability to specify a list of illegal strings that must not appear in any generated word.
• Added the "Exclude Words" field to the Anagram Finder.
• Added the "Dictionary Lookup" tool to the context menu for each editbox where a random word is generated.  This will open the Internet browser to Dictionary.com where the word is looked up.
• Added the "Restrictions" tab.
• Added Copy/Print/Save/Exit buttons to the bottom of the Statistics window.
• Added a graphical banner to the top of the Generate To File, Generate Real Words, and Word Builder tools.
• Added the "One Instance Only" option to the Options menu.
• Redesigned the "Generate To File" and "Extrapolate To File" windows.
• The results of the Anagram Finder are now alphabetized.
• The Extrapolate tool now takes care not to generate the original word if "Prevent Repetition" is checked.
• Fixed: a window caption icon could have a flawed appearance on Aero.

Version 16.1 (May 13th, 2011)

• Fixed: rare stack overflow when rendering icons at a certain size.

Version 16.0 (May 4th, 2011)

• Major interface improvements, too many to list.  Added support for Aero Glass (Vista/2008/7).  Improved appearance, layout, margins, skins.
• The drawer of tabs has been replaced with a bar of labels.
• Added the Adjective-Noun.RWG stock project.
• Added a toolbar, although it is hidden by default.  Choose "Show Toolbar" from the Options menu to make it visible.
• Added the "Import Components From CSV" option to the Edit menu.
• Added the "Reject Anagrams With No Vowels" option to the Anagram Finder tool.
• Added the "Show Common Tasks" option to the Options menu.
• Added a high resolution shell icon for Vista/2008/7.
• The components and formats for Default.RWG have been regenerated from an updated word list containing 22,000+ new words.
• Improved the help file.
• Fixed: the "Prevent Repetition" feature was not clearing the memory of generated words after completing an operation.

Version 15.0 (September 20th, 2010)

• Added the "Generate Phrase" setting to the Options tab.  This allows you to generate a phrase of several random words.
• Added to the "Capitalization" feature support for extended ASCII characters in the ANSI character set.  For example "à" (code 224) would be capitalized to "À" (code 192).
• Added the "Alphabetize" option to the Generate Real Words tool.
• Added the "Vowel Required" option to the Word Builder tool.
• Added the "Omit Extended ASCII" option to the Generate Real Words tool.
• Added the "Speak" tool to all editboxes.
• Added the "Favorites" tab to the help file.
• On Windows 7, the taskbar button will now show the progress of any word generation tool.
• The Default skin now conforms with the appearance of Windows 7.  The original default skin has been renamed "Experience".
• The "Statistics" tool will now take the "One Frequency Column" option into account.
• Numerous improvements to the "Check For Update" tool.
• The Send Feedback and Report Exception features now use HTTP to deliver the information to Gammadyne.  The old SMTP method is only used as a fallback if HTTP fails.  This is necessary because some ISP's only allow SMTP to their own mail servers.
• The first time RWG is launched, balloon help will appear informing the user of where to click to begin generating random words.
• Fixed some minor incompatibility issues with Vista/2008/7.
• Fixed: toggling the "One Frequency Column" box was not updating the Components Table's appearance properly.

Version 14.1 (April 12th, 2010)

• Added the "Separator" field to the Generate Real Words tool.
• Fixed: the installer was not requiring administrator elevation on Vista/2008/7 (since 14.0).

Version 14.0 (February 19th, 2010)

• Added the "Statistics" tool to the Tools menu.
• Most icons have been replaced or improved.
• Added the "Discard Duplicate Components" tool to the Edit menu.
• Added the "Alphabetize" option to the Word Builder.
• Added an abortable progress window to the "Generate Letter Combinations" and "Generate Real Words" tools when generating to a file.
• Added the "Generate" menu and moved some of the options on the Tools menu there.
• Numerous minor interface and installer improvements.
• When generating a file, the operation will stop if the target drive's free space falls below 1% or 1 GB, whichever is smaller.
• The open/save file dialog will now use the operating system style enhancements.
• The "Generate All Possible Combinations" tool will now obey the "Minimum Length" and "Maximum Length" project settings.
• Organized the settings on the Options folder into groups.
• Eliminated components that occur less than 3 times in the entire English language.
• Eliminated the format codes that contain no vowels.
• Fixed a problem with the way the consonant statistics were being calculated.

Version 13.0 (June 9th, 2009)

• Improved the performance of the Anagram Finder, and added the "Whole Anagrams Only" option.  These improvements require installing the latest version of the spell checking module ( http://gammadyne.com/speller.htm ).
• All component and format frequencies now have 2 decimal digits for improved word generation.
• Added the "Compliments.RWG" project.  This project generates random compliments.
• Added the "Extrapolate to File" tool.
• Added an "Extrapolate" button next to each generated extrapolation on the Extrapolate window.  This allows the user to change the text being extrapolated on.
• Added the "/ef" command-line switch to generate extrapolations to a file.
• Added the ability to drag and drop a .RWG project file from File Explorer onto the window caption.  This will open the project.
• The main executable is now digitally signed.
• Numerous interface and skin improvements.
• Numerous improvements to the installer.
• The Anagram Finder now reports the total number of anagrams found, and the total operation time.
• The uninstaller was not deleting the dictionary word list cache files.
• Restored support for Windows 95.
• Fixed: the Anagram Finder was not working correctly with uppercase letters.

Version 12.2 (September 22nd, 2008)

• The Word Builder and Generate Real Words windows will now remember all settings.
• The installer is now digitally signed.

Version 12.1 (July 17th, 2008)

• Balloon help has been totally revamped.
• Fixed: rare installer crash (since 12.0).

Version 12.0 (June 10th, 2008)

• Added the "Anagram Finder" tool.
• When generating a new list of random words, the window will no longer blink away momentarily.  This applies to Generate Random Words, Extrapolate, Generate Real Words, and Word Builder.
• The installer will now warn if it does not have admin rights.  It will also attempt to loosen the security settings on the installation directory (to prevent problems with Vista).
• Numerous minor improvements.
• Fixed: possible hang when opening the Configuration Editor.
• Fixed: selecting and copying text in the help file did not always work properly.
• Fixed: generating variations of a variation was not working correctly.

Version 11.0 (January 3rd, 2008)

• Numerous user interface improvements.  Please press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5 to reset System­G, then reload your preferred skin.
• Added support for rational Component and Format frequencies (containing a decimal point).  The DEFAULT.RWG project is now based on more accurate English statistics.
• Added the "Omit Capitalized Words" option to the "Generate Real Words" and "Word Builder" tools.
• Improved icons and icon rendering.
• Added the "Metal" skin.

Version 10.1 (June 18th, 2007)

• Fixed the "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect" error that was caused by an incorrect DLL dependency that should have been linked dynamically.

Version 10.0 (June 18th, 2007)

• Added the "Component Separator" setting to the Options folder.
• Added the "Import from CSV file" tool to the Components table.
• Replaced the toolbar with a toolbox.
• Numerous user interface/skin improvements.  The "Default" skin has been redesigned to match the appearance of Windows XP.
• All interface fonts are now antialiased by default.  The setting to control this is located at:  System-G Menu > Configuration Editor > Controls > Font > Antialias.
• Improved the help file and balloon help.
• Added a Help option to the bottom of the Edit and Tools menus.
• Renamed the "Generate" folder to "Options".
• The "Generate Random Words To File" and "Generate All Possible Combinations" tools now display the number of words generated and the size of the output file as it grows.
• Drawer folders will now display a scrollbar if there is not enough room for all controls.
• To prevent an out-of-memory error, the "Generate Letter Combinations" tool will only allow the "Eliminate Duplicates" option if there is less than 5,000,000 possible combinations.
• Fixed a problem with the "Match Pattern" feature of the Generate Real Words tool.
• Fixed a problem with failures when the Minimum Length and Maximum Length settings are used.

Version 9.0 (September 20th, 2006)

• Added the "Word Builder" tool.
• Improved and added skins (please reload your current skin).
• All icons are now transparent.
• Improved the speed at which the "Generate Real Words" tool imports the dictionary.

Version 8.1 (March 6th, 2006)

• Added the ability to perform offline product activation.
• Fixed a possible inability to connect to the Product Activation Server (when using a proxy server).

Version 8.0 (February 24th, 2006)

• Added support for the new Gammadyne Product Activation System.
• Added the "Generate Real Words" tool.
• Added the "Display Toolbar" context menu option for the toolbar.  Hotkeys are now listed in the toolbar icon balloon help.
• Numerous minor improvements.

Version 7.1 (April 28th, 2005)

• Numerous user interface improvements.
• Eliminated the need for GHELP.EXE.  The main application executable will now handle displaying the help file.  This reduces the size of the installer by about 400 KB.

Version 7.0 (September 27th, 2004)

• Added the ability to control the minimum and maximum length of generated words.
• Added the ability to enter multiple Format Codes in the Components Table.
• Added the "Prevent Profanity" option to the Generate folder.
• Added support for the "?" wildcard Format Code.
• Added the "Ignore" column to the Components Table.
• Added the "Eliminate Duplicates" option to the Generate Letter Combinations tool.
• Added the "Duplicate Row", "Set Entire Column", and "Paste New Rows" context menu options to the Components Table.
• Button icons now have a transparent background.
• The "Generate Words" window will now remember its position.
• Added numerous terms to Insults.RWG.  Fixed some mis-categorized components.

Version 6.0 (April 13th, 2004)

• Added the ability to generate only real words or only fake words.  This requires installation of the Gammadyne Spell Checking Module, which can be freely downloaded from http://www.gammadyne.com/speller.htm .
• The Default.RWG project has been completely changed to reflect the actual percentages of components and formats in the entire English language.  The statistics used to create the project are included in a file named "stats.txt".
• Redesigned the Random Words window.
• Added various icons to menus, windows, and buttons.
• Added the toolbar.
• Added the "Number of attempts" setting to the Generate folder.
• Added the "Import components from project" feature.
• Added numerous terms to Insults.RWG.
• If word generation is taking more than half a second, a progress window will now appear.
• The "One Frequency Column" setting will now be properly saved in the project.
• The "Load Default Formats" feature now keeps the list of default formats in a file named "formats.txt".
• Updated to System-G version 2.3.

Version 5.1 (July 30th, 2003)

• Added a large number of double consonants.  They are all low frequency, but this does spice things up a bit.
• Added a significant number of terms to Insults.RWG.
• The "Prevent Repetition" buffer has been increased from 1000 to 10,000.
• When no more unique random words can be generated because of the "Prevent Repetition" feature, the word generated will be "[FAIL]".
• Numerous System-G improvements.
• Fixed a problem with the "Insult of the Day" feature not obeying the "Prevent Repetition" feature.

Version 5.0 (December 31st, 2002)

• Added support to System-G for interface "skins".  We strongly recommend that you try some of the new skins on the "Skins" submenu of the "System-G" menu.
• Added the "One Frequency Column" option.
• Added to the "Insult of the day" feature the ability to generate more than one insult.
• Added the "/gf" command line switch, which generates random words to a file.
• Added a new Help file system.  This system has the following advantages over the old Windows Help System:
    - The entire help file can be printed at once, instead of by topic only.
    - When printed, the page number that a hyperlink is pointing to will be printed.
    - Unprecedented control over how the document is printed, including base font size and margins.
    - Hyperlinks to web pages and email addresses are now supported.
    - The keyword search supports full search expressions, such as:
      "mail server" and (smtp or pop3) and -dns
• The registration status is now kept in the file "rwg-reg.ini" instead of in the registry.

Version 4.1 (March 7th, 2002)

• Added the "Generate Letter Combinations" tool.
• Added to the "Capitalization" setting the "Unchanged" and "Sentence Case" options.
• Added to the "Check For Update" feature the ability to automatically download and install the new version.
• Added numerous terms to the random insult generator.
• Added the ability to use the tab key to navigate the components table.  Right click on the table, choose "Table options", then check the "Tab through cells" box.
• When no frequencies have been entered anywhere, they will now default to 100.
• Previously, to add a System-G setting, source code had to be written in about 25 different locations.  New settings can now be added by writing just 2 lines of code.  The bad news is that old .SGC and .GCS files are no longer compatible with the new scheme.  The good news is that the new .SGS files that replace .SGC and .GCS files are plain text, not a proprietary binary format.  This means that .SGS files can be easily edited using Notepad.  To prove that these changes are worthwhile, the following settings have been added:
      - Enhanced 3D borders
      - Borderless checkboxes
      - Borderless radio buttons
      - Show balloon help on captions
      - Minimize on double click
      - Sizable window border thickness
      - Static window border thickness
      - Black window edge

Version 4.0 (May 4th, 2001)

• Added the "Insults.rwg" project, which generates random insults.  Don't use this project if you are easily offended.
• Added the "Insult of the Day" feature to the Options menu.
• Added the ability to set default values for blank cells in the 3 Frequency columns of the components table.  These will default to 0 for backward compatibility.
• Added the "Copy text to clipboard" option to the context menu of the buttons that contain random words.
• Added the ability to set the frequency that an individual Format is used.  Simply follow the Format with a colon, then a number between 0 and 100.  If no frequency is specified, the default is 20.  For example, "cvcvc:50" is 5 times more likely to be chosen than "cvtvdv:10".
• Added command line support.
• Added the "Trim components" feature to the new Tools menu.
• Added the F9 hotkey for adding a row to the Components Table.
• Format Codes are now case sensitive.
• The question mark can now be used in a format string to indicate that all categories are allowed.
• The "Random Words" window will now report if you are generating variations of a word.
• The restriction on empty components has been lifted.
• When sorting the Component Table by the Format Code, a secondary ordering will be performed on the Component Text column.
• You may now undo a "Load format defaults" operation by pressing Alt+Backspace (the Format List must has input focus).
• Numerous System-G improvements.
• Numerous improvements to the help file.
• The Component Table is now properly emptied when the project is closed.
• Fixed a bug in associating ".RWG" files with Random Word Generator.

Version 3.0 (April 3rd, 2000)

• Added the "Extrapolate" folder and all its functionality.
• Added the "Prevent repetition" option.
• Added the "File separator" option.
• Added the "Unique components" option.
• Numerous System-G improvements.
• The "Default.RWG" project is now opened by default.
• ".RWG" files are now associated with Random Word Generator.

Version 2.0 (September 16th, 1999)

• Added "Generate All Possible Combinations" feature.
• Added the "Components Table" to replace several interface controls.
• Instead of the "Never First" and "Never Last" options, there is now a separate "Frequency" setting for the first and last components.  Setting the appropriate frequency to zero will ensure that the component does not appear at the beginning or end.
• Added the "Prefix" and "Suffix" options.
• Added the "Capitalization" setting.
• Numerous updates to System-G and the installer.
• RWG is now shareware.
• Improved help file.
• Fixed a bug that would cause changes to not be saved immediately when generating random words.

Version 1.1 (April 12th, 1999)

• If a forced prefix was used, then changed, the original prefix would still be used.  This bug was fixed.
• Numerous improvements made to the System-G environment.
• The default formats now include some formats with double vowels.

Version 1.0

• Original Release October 16th, 1998