Hello everyone,
I have released QualCoder 3.0 today. I have only tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10.
You must have VLC installed. Optionally, install ffmpeg for speech to text and waveform image creation. (ffmpeg tested on Ubuntu only).
There is an exe for Windows 10 and an executable for Ubuntu 20.04.
The graphical framework have been updated from Qt5 to Qt6.
Other changes:
Manage files
- Rename database file name entry, function added.
Code text
- Fixed uncaught IndexError exception when editing text positions.
- Fixed AttributeError updating Tooltips in merge_codes
- Export coded text file to odt or html. Does not export the tooltips (future work to do).
Reports
- Added Charting function.
- Pie, Bar, Sunburst, Heatmap and Treemap charts can be created and are displayed in the default web browser. Heatmaps are limited to 40 rows and 40 columns for nicer display and faster rendering.
- Graph
- Added right-click menu options to show files and cases as text objects.
- Added right-click menu options to add extra free text objects and lines.
- zoom +/- function.
- Future work will be to save and load these user edited graphs within the database.
Special functions
- Added ability to merge another QualCoder project into the current project. Always make a back up of your project first, just in case there is a problem.
Errors fixed
- File deletion error – SQL bindings mismatch – fixed.
- Uncaught IndexError exception when editing text positions from within code text – fixed.
- AttributeError updating Tooltips when merging codes- fixed.
- Dark text on dark code colour in Code image fixed. Now shows white text. fixed.
QualCoder 
Hello Colin,
Wanted to say thanks. After using paid CAQDAS for long and not having found a FOSS alternative that was easy to use and had all the features I needed, QualCoder is truly a game changer.
Thank you for your support !
Hello all! I am running QualCoder 2.4 on Ubuntu 20.04. I would like to upgrade to QC 3.0, but I am not able to do it. I have downloaded QC 3.0 file on my disk. According to instructions double click on file should start programm or installation, but nothing happens. What is the right way to upgrade QC 2.4 -> QC 3.0?
Hello. .ok. to check, did you download the QualCoder-3.0-Ubuntu not the Windows exe?
Do you have a 64 bit version of VLC installed?
If you have the 32 bit version of VLC, QualCoder will not run.
If still a problem, can you create a profile on github and post the problem there on QualCoder. It will be easier to work through how to fix the problem.
Hello,
I would like to download QC for my time-sensitive analysis, I tried Nvivo and it kept crashing for no apparent reason on Mac/Monterey 12.4.
Need someone to help me with a QC 3.0 installer for me to kick start my analysis.
I’m trying to download VLC and it keeps timing out, I followed the French video to get an understanding and figure a way out. Unfortunately, all doors seem to be getting slammed on me. If anyone can help with a VLC and some basic steps to download and get started would be highly appreciated.
VLC normally downloads without problems. Perhaps check with your internet provider?
I cannot create an installer for Mac, as I don’t have a Mac. But the manual install instructions do work on Monterey.