Hi Peter,

On Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:45:11 PM UTC+7, Peter Bienstman wrote:
>
>
> Citeren Mark <[email protected] <javascript:>>: 
>
> > 1.  For Windows installation, do not require Windows administrative 
> > privilege to install the software.  It doesn't seem to be necessary to 
> have 
> > the privilege as my workaround is just to copy the program directory 
> from a 
> > flash drive onto the target computer's C drive. 
>
> I haven't explicitly enforced anything, I just rely on the defaults of   
> the installer. If during the installer you set the destination   
> direction to a flash drive, do you also need admin permission? 
>
>
Yes.  The specific version of Windows I have the most trouble with is one 
of the latest ones.  I don't remember offhand if it is Windows 7 or 8.  In 
any event, at this particular computer (for complicated reasons) the 
student can only sign on as "Guest".  Windows installers are blocked 
regardless of the destination drive/folder.  So, I in the end, I install it 
on my own PC... copy it to my flash drive... and then when I go to that 
house, copy it again from the flash drive to their hard drive.



 

> > 2.  In the statistics, to be able to show a log of date and number of 
> cards 
> > viewed within that day (by date computer clock).  It wouldn't need to be 
> a 
> > log forever for my needs; perhaps just show the most recent ten days 
> that 
> > had any activity.  My students have to use Mnemosyne on their own "on 
> the 
> > honor system" some days.  When I talk to them the next day, they say "Oh 
> I 
> > did it yesterday".  I have no way to verify this, if the student has 
> > already used the software on the current day and worked the scheduled 
> cards 
> > down to zero. 
>
> This is not implemented at the moment, but if on Friday the counter is   
> zero, it means that they also did the scheduled cards for Thursday,   
> Wednesday, etc... They could have done them all on Friday, though. 
>


What you say is true, however as it's currently implemented, I have no way 
of knowing if they have been doing consistent daily work (e.g. 20 minutes a 
day) versus one marathon session on the last day.  Would this be difficult 
to implement?






 

>
> > 3.  Are there any command line options under Windows to, say, import new 
> > cards?   With some students, I don't go to their house.  So, to import 
> new 
> > cards is kind of big mess.  If I had command line options to do things 
> such 
> > as import cards and point to a mnemosyne card file for the input; 
> > activate/deactivate cards by tags (like a list of tags);  and maybe 
> delete 
> > all cards with a particular tag.... then I could setup Windows .BAT 
> files 
> > for them just to execute by themselves at their home. 
>
> Command line options are not flexible enough for that, but you can   
> script anything in Mnemosyne using a Python script. Problem for   
> Windows is that to achieve this, users first need to install Python   
> and all the other required libraries, and then install Mnemosyne as a   
> Python module. This is complicated and time consuming, which is why   
> the Windows installer includes its own python installation, different   
> from the system's Python install. 
>
>
Ok, this doesn't seem worth it.  It would probably be equally good if I 
could just have a Mnemosyne server hosted on the Internet that they, as 
remote users, could get the cards from.



 

> Feel free to add any feature request to our uservoice forum, so that   
> other people can vote for it. 
>
> Cheers, 
>
> Peter 
>
>
>

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