(just got back from a week without email access) Glad you got this working! For 2.0, the unicode handling of filenames has been reworked, so it should be fixed there.
Thanks for the feedback! Peter > Ok problem solved I think *cross fingers*! > > A combination of careless flashcard formulation and a bug in mnemosyne > error handling. > > It seems that the original problem was just that in the path to the > sound file, I had written a capital A character as a cyrillic capital > A which looks exactly the same but clearly has a different encoding. > The problem was just that mnemosyne couldn't find the file. Normally, > when an audio file is in the answer section and mnemosyne can't find > the file, it just hangs for a few seconds and then displays the answer > as normal. However when the unfound file is in the question section, > it seems that it just can't display the flashcard at all. What was > happening I think with the unresponsiveness was that when the next > question was with a file that couldn't be found, mnemosyne recognised > the grading input of the previous file, moved on to the new file but > then couldn't play it and hung. Initially at least it seemed it would > automatically move on after a while to the next card, or maybe I had > without realising it pressed the space bar and a grading button and > actually answered and graded the "unplayable" card without seeing it! > Because I added a large amount of flashcards at one time and all the > rest were playing fine I didn't realise that I wasn't seeing that > particular group of flashcards or that was anything special about > their content. > > I guess this isn't going to be a common problem, but maybe an error > alert when a audio file can't be found would be the best way to handle > this. The card should definitely be displayed though. > > Presumably this audio file not found problem is serious enough to > prevent the mnemosyne window from appearing at all when I started it > up and a question from the unplayable bunch was first on the list to > be reviewed. Not sure why starting it up from the terminal meant that > it couldn't find the proper database, it seemed to be looking in the > wrong place, but on second thoughts that is probably nothing to do > with the original problem. > > Apologies for cluttering up inboxes. ------------------------------------------------ Peter Bienstman Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 WWW: http://photonics.intec.UGent.be email: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------ -- 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.
