On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Peter Bienstman<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday 21 March 2009 18:15:54 Gwern Branwen wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> > On Friday 20 March 2009 18:41:41 Gwern Branwen wrote: >> >> A partial copy of my db is attached. (The exporting interface is clunky! >> >> I couldn't figure out how to select multiple categories without the >> >> dragging method, and that doesn't allow multiple areas, it seems.) >> > >> > You can use the standard method of holding down cntrl and shift to select >> > multiple categories. Note that this is handled by Qt, not by Mnemosyne >> > itself. >> > >> >> Running with a empty .mnemosyne and importing the xml and then trying to >> >> import the poem.txt seems to manifest the same problem of >> >> not-importing-but-no-errors (grep turns up nothing, card count doesn't >> >> change). >> > >> > I did exactly that, and tried to import it in the literature category. >> > The card count jumped from 3718 to 3748, as expected... >> > >> > Does the problem also occur when you install Mnemosyne from source, as >> > opposed to from the Ubuntu package? Perhaps there is an issue with the >> > package (which is not built by me). >> > >> > Peter >> >> Using the sourceforge 1.2 tarball, and running in place (after a python >> build), the problem still manifests: importing to Literature fails, >> importing to default succeeds. > > Well, if I cannot reproduce the problem with the files you sent me, I'm afraid > it will be next to impossible for me to solve the problem..
I think I've finally figured it out; after the issue with searching using C-d, and either mousing or hitting enter, I became more sensitive to when I've been clicking on the buttons as opposed to hitting enter in the appropriate fields. Eventually, I noticed that one time an import failed (as observed by the # of cards failing to increase, since as I said, there are no errors or anything), it was a time where I had filled in the category and hit enter. When I retried the import (with the same file, category, format, and reset option) making very sure to click with the mouse the import button, the import succeeded. This seems to've been true of some later imports I tried. My theory is that, for some reason, bizarrely, Mnemosyne/Qt interprets an Enter in any of the fields of the import dialogue as a command to close the dialogue without doing anything. This would explain why there is no error or message - because Mnemosyne isn't doing anything. This could be fixed either by fixing the handling of Enter keypresses, or maybe just by adding a warning similar to when adding questions - 'you are abandoning an import; this is awesome y/n?' -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
