OK. I'm back from vacation and am anxious to get my report in, so I haven't read all the previous three weeks of posts in this thread. Also, I haven't installed the latest fix. I apologize in advance if my comments are redundant.
I'm now using my iPAQ 211 exclusively. PD, except for executable and handwriting, is on an 8 GB SD card that has about 1.5 gigs left.
1. Let's say I've searched for jiu/old, but am not certain about the tone so I don't indicate it.
The list starts with the jiu1 words, so I tap on the first possibility. Up it comes. But this isn't the jiu I want, so I scroll down the list to the next jiu character. I tap on it, and instead of taking me to the second jiu, PD jumps me to an A word (Chinese). I an work around it by tapping my selection (that is, the next jiu candidate) three times very quickly. But I mean VERY quickly. If it jumps to the A word, though, it's very hard to get PD to forget the As and go back to the jiu list. The A words seem random, but don't go beyond af...--I get A-ban, a, aba, ading..., ac..., afei. This is a barely intermittent problem, meaning that it happens almost all the time, but every once in a while, PD works properly.
2. I can't get the list to persist. That is, as soon as I select a word from the list (which I have running vertically on the right side), the list goes away and I have to use the list toggle icon in the toolbar to retrieve it. (The input panel always runs along the bottom, if this is pertinent.)
3. I can't get any audio in the flashcards.
4. The Launch PD and the PD app take the same amount of time to boot up--17 to 22 seconds. I have about 2000 flashcards and maybe a 100 custom definitions as well as all of the supplied dictionaries.
5. Flashcards load quickly--a second or so at the most.
6. Language detection started out great. I'd use the keyboard to enter a word, and PD would switch me from, say, Chinese into English. Doesn't work reliably any longer. In fact, mostly doesn't work.
7. I can get only 13 icons (in portrait) on my toolbar, even though I have specified 16. And that includes the eraser icon. Isn't this supposed to be scalable for VGA displays?
8. Almost every time I close out of Preferences, PD shuts down. I guess this is a crash, although it's a very polite crash--PD saves all my changed settings before it closes.
9. Also, I deleted every PD file I could find in main memory, file store, SD, and CF cards. (And the registry, but there were no registry entries, as you'd expect, since I didn't use an installer to install the program. However, my categories persisted, even though I started my flashcards all over again.
There are more, but I'll wait until I've played with the experimental stability fix.
Hope something's useful here.
Sandra
Audio auto-play is actually deliberately disabled when audio's one of the "Show" fields, though come to think of it I'm not sure exactly why we decided to make it work that way. (so a feature change request, I guess)