General Flashcard Interaction - Some comments.
Item 1 - Delete Card Icon
Under the heat of battle (i.e., running a flashcard session), the "erase" card icon keeps creating a problem for me (I know this has been broached in the past). If I am just a bit tired, or go off and review some popup definition, I come back to the session and want to clear the write screen and hit the erase icon. Of course this is due to the icons being pretty much the same.
Maybe it is just me, but I probably do that about one time an hour in a given session. It would not be such a concern except that the result could ultimately be the deletion of a card. Its good there is a message that asks "are you sure you want to delete the card" but I would prefer to not even get to that point.
I believe that some other icon (e.g. skull and crossbones) would solve my problem, or having the delete card icon on the "edit card" screen.
Item 2 - Exiting Flashcard Sessions
I touched on this in the past, but with the new flashcard functionality, not sure if this might be easy. Specifically, Pleco asks me if I want to save a flashcard session on exit, and asks me if I want to resume on resume. For me, if I was only prompted on the way back in, it would be enough, and more convenient as I would be able to interrupt a flashcard session to work in the full dictionary module. If I ask to exit a session, the program would just exit immediately to the dictionary module. Upon re-entry into the flashcard module, I can decide if I want to resume then.
Not to make too big a deal out of this, but when I want the full dictionary module, I many times have something that I would like to be addressed within seconds - a word I want to remember that I just came upon, a look-up when on the street to show someone, etc. When coming back into a flashcard session, I likely am in a less rushed state and would more easily have the time to answer any prompt. Additionally, once in an active flashcard session, the chances of me wanting to stop before completely running the deck is about 1 in 20. This does not include potential interruptions, just my interest in ultimately running through all the flashcards before starting with some other flashcard configuration/session. Once I start, I rarely do not ultimately run the deck to completion. However, the chance of me getting interrupted during a long session to do other dictionary work on Pleco is about somewhere between 50% and 100%.
The function I think would be preferable for me would be either:
1) Have the "exit flashcard session icon" not prompt for save, and immediately exit to the dictionary module, with a prompt to resume the flashcard session again when again entering the flashcard module, or
2) Separate hot or soft key for exiting the flashcard session to the dictionary module.