llammamama
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Several more (mostly small) issues with the flashcards:
It does not seem possible to quickly change the dictionary mapping of a flashcard in the information>edit card screen.
With card text "from dictionary" selected in the edit card screen, simply clicking the color-coded dictionary toggle button does not properly toggle through the dictionaries for that specific word - instead it cycles through seemingly random words in the other dictionaries untill it comes back to the original dictionary/entry. At the moment it is neccesary to copy/paste the word into the search box (next to the search button), click search, and then toggle through the dictionaries.
During the final review it still asks you to grade your responses when using "prompt for answer quality".
I am using the "prompt for answer quality" option, and during the final review Pleco continues to prompt me for answer quality. My understanding is that the final review does not impact your card scores, so it seems like this extra input is unneccesary. Not a huge deal, but slightly annoying.
There is some slightly odd display behavior when switching to other programs and then returning during a flashcard session.
For the most part this is cosmetic. If I hit the "home" button on my Axim X50v, instead of taking me to the home screen it just makes the upper taskbar visible. Using the taskbar I can switch to other programs normally. Upon returning to my pleco flashcard session, the button-and-carrot for the default windows software keyboard overlaps slightly with the "reveal answer" and "wrong" buttons. Opening the keyboard and minimizing it causes the entire lower taskbar to appear, and the overlap problem goes away. If I click the "information" button and then return, the flashcard session once again becomes full screen and everything is back to normal. I am using the "magic button" taskbar program, which might have some influence on this behavior.
The default behavior of not doing Anything when trying to add a duplicate flashcard can be very inconvenient.
When I am adding flashcards directly from the reader or from the main dictionary screen, I am not able to add flashcards to a category if it already exists in another category. I definitely do not want to duplicate flashcards, however I do want to add flashcards to the selected category (even if they exist in another category). Currently, in order to add a flashcard which has a duplicate In a different category I have to leave the reader screen (or the main dictionary screen), go to the manage flashcards screen, search for the flashcard, add it to the category I wanted, and then go back to what I was doing. What a pain!
Changing the default behavior of "Don't allow duplicate flashcards" to add the already present flashcard to the selected category, and doing nothing if the already present flashcard is already in the selected category, would save me a lot of time searching around in the manage flashcards screen. I suppose yet another option (mabye "Allow duplicates in different categories") might be a better idea, because I can imagine use cases where this behavior is undesireable.
Copy/Paste functions are difficult to use in the edit flashcards screen.
There is something slightly off about the tap-and-hold as it is implimented on the edit flashcard screen. For some reason it is very difficult to get the popup menu to appear - I am able to get the tap-and-hold menu to come up about half of the time. (This is definitely an important feature, though, in order to paste in definitions from a different word document etc.)
Ignoring all of these small issues, I LOVE the new flashcard system! Even in the current state it is very usable, and it is so much more customizable than Supermemo CE that I want to hug it. The audio-support and free-answer modes are simply awesome!
Great work!
It does not seem possible to quickly change the dictionary mapping of a flashcard in the information>edit card screen.
With card text "from dictionary" selected in the edit card screen, simply clicking the color-coded dictionary toggle button does not properly toggle through the dictionaries for that specific word - instead it cycles through seemingly random words in the other dictionaries untill it comes back to the original dictionary/entry. At the moment it is neccesary to copy/paste the word into the search box (next to the search button), click search, and then toggle through the dictionaries.
During the final review it still asks you to grade your responses when using "prompt for answer quality".
I am using the "prompt for answer quality" option, and during the final review Pleco continues to prompt me for answer quality. My understanding is that the final review does not impact your card scores, so it seems like this extra input is unneccesary. Not a huge deal, but slightly annoying.
There is some slightly odd display behavior when switching to other programs and then returning during a flashcard session.
For the most part this is cosmetic. If I hit the "home" button on my Axim X50v, instead of taking me to the home screen it just makes the upper taskbar visible. Using the taskbar I can switch to other programs normally. Upon returning to my pleco flashcard session, the button-and-carrot for the default windows software keyboard overlaps slightly with the "reveal answer" and "wrong" buttons. Opening the keyboard and minimizing it causes the entire lower taskbar to appear, and the overlap problem goes away. If I click the "information" button and then return, the flashcard session once again becomes full screen and everything is back to normal. I am using the "magic button" taskbar program, which might have some influence on this behavior.
The default behavior of not doing Anything when trying to add a duplicate flashcard can be very inconvenient.
When I am adding flashcards directly from the reader or from the main dictionary screen, I am not able to add flashcards to a category if it already exists in another category. I definitely do not want to duplicate flashcards, however I do want to add flashcards to the selected category (even if they exist in another category). Currently, in order to add a flashcard which has a duplicate In a different category I have to leave the reader screen (or the main dictionary screen), go to the manage flashcards screen, search for the flashcard, add it to the category I wanted, and then go back to what I was doing. What a pain!
Changing the default behavior of "Don't allow duplicate flashcards" to add the already present flashcard to the selected category, and doing nothing if the already present flashcard is already in the selected category, would save me a lot of time searching around in the manage flashcards screen. I suppose yet another option (mabye "Allow duplicates in different categories") might be a better idea, because I can imagine use cases where this behavior is undesireable.
Copy/Paste functions are difficult to use in the edit flashcards screen.
There is something slightly off about the tap-and-hold as it is implimented on the edit flashcard screen. For some reason it is very difficult to get the popup menu to appear - I am able to get the tap-and-hold menu to come up about half of the time. (This is definitely an important feature, though, in order to paste in definitions from a different word document etc.)
Ignoring all of these small issues, I LOVE the new flashcard system! Even in the current state it is very usable, and it is so much more customizable than Supermemo CE that I want to hug it. The audio-support and free-answer modes are simply awesome!
Great work!
) without causing confusion to the program?