I just loaded Version 3.9 from a much older version and I'm a little disappointed about two things:

1.  In previous versions, if you were looking at a bird and then went to another bird and another bird, you could use the back arrow to go back to the previous birds you were looking at.  Now when you use the back arrow, it goes back to the previous bird in the taxonomy list, NOT the birds you were previously looking at  ;o(   If there's a way to do what I want, please set me straight.

2.  There used to be a PLAY SOUND button on the menu at the top with all the other big buttons.  Now you have to go find that little tiny blue "Play" link down in the text.  Not helpful for my bad eyes ;o(

If there's something I'm missing, please let me know.  Why in the world would you take away those useful features from the previous versions????

Mountaingirl53

When Microsoft released Vista, it forced us to completely rewrite the program. We decided to take that opportunity to make all the buttons, etc behave like a typical Windows program.

As a result the back arrows we had in version 3.0 are gone. But you can now click Window in the Menu bar and add as many bird tabs as you like -- each tab can link to a different bird. So now you do not have to scroll backwards to get to a bird you were just looking at - you simply click on the tab at the top of the eFieldGuide viewer. I think this is better than the way it was before -- it just takes a while to get used to doing it the new way.

The play sound link appears in the Sound section -- just like it always did. But you can also play the sound when looking at a zoomed image -- right-click on the image and then click Play song. This is also different than the old way, but it is how other Windows programs behave. The big buttons at the top are now just those icons that take you to a sepearate portion of the program -- like Sightings, ID Wizard, Custom Lists, etc.