Shun
状元
Hello Mike,
as I was studying in Flashcards with Fill-in-the-blanks, Prompt for Characters, I had the following thought:
About 3-5% of the time I draw a character in Fill-in-the-blanks, the handwriting recognizer misrecognizes the character because of sloppy handwriting, at which point I either start over drawing the character/undo some strokes and redraw them until it is recognized correctly, or I just tap it with two fingers, which results in an incorrect answer, and from the next card, go back with the Back arrow and change the previous result to "Correct". In the midst of a learning session, I might begin to doubt whether the previously drawn character was really correct, so that is where my feature suggestion comes in:
Pleco could remember a picture of the handwriting strokes for each character that was previously entered, in such a way that when going back, one can verify by tapping on the 字 button what was actually drawn previously, and then decide if the answer was or was not correct. This would only apply to previously entered cards, not to previous characters in cards being entered at that moment. (This ought to be empty, because one usually just wants to redraw another character rather than undo individual strokes.)
I think this would fit in neatly with the current interface—no extra buttons, just an additional, logical behavior. Right now, if I tap on the 字 button in a previously answered card, I get an empty field with a blue border around it. With the new feature, the blue border could remain, just with the character looking exactly the way it was entered. If the memory requirements for this feature turn out to be too steep, perhaps only the last 10 or the last 3 card's character drawings could be kept in memory?
Here's an example of the way it looks now:
Many thanks, Regards,
Shun
as I was studying in Flashcards with Fill-in-the-blanks, Prompt for Characters, I had the following thought:
About 3-5% of the time I draw a character in Fill-in-the-blanks, the handwriting recognizer misrecognizes the character because of sloppy handwriting, at which point I either start over drawing the character/undo some strokes and redraw them until it is recognized correctly, or I just tap it with two fingers, which results in an incorrect answer, and from the next card, go back with the Back arrow and change the previous result to "Correct". In the midst of a learning session, I might begin to doubt whether the previously drawn character was really correct, so that is where my feature suggestion comes in:
Pleco could remember a picture of the handwriting strokes for each character that was previously entered, in such a way that when going back, one can verify by tapping on the 字 button what was actually drawn previously, and then decide if the answer was or was not correct. This would only apply to previously entered cards, not to previous characters in cards being entered at that moment. (This ought to be empty, because one usually just wants to redraw another character rather than undo individual strokes.)
I think this would fit in neatly with the current interface—no extra buttons, just an additional, logical behavior. Right now, if I tap on the 字 button in a previously answered card, I get an empty field with a blue border around it. With the new feature, the blue border could remain, just with the character looking exactly the way it was entered. If the memory requirements for this feature turn out to be too steep, perhaps only the last 10 or the last 3 card's character drawings could be kept in memory?
Here's an example of the way it looks now:
Many thanks, Regards,
Shun
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