Soren, You say "white lightbulb icon on the* edit toolbar*" but it should be the "*Editor Toolbar*". The small icons in edit mode, the Edit Tool Bar is above and has delete discard and done buttons.
Regards Tony On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 15:00:01 UTC+11 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > Si, > > Thanks for reporting back! I'm super busy right now finishing things up > before the holidays, but I'll keep this in my inbox and throw something in > the docs about that add-on for anyone else who has the same problem. > > I'm still baffled about why it seems to work on my computer and not yours. > It makes sense that the browser inside Anki doesn't have access to the > filesystem, but that's not what the link is supposed to do...no link on a > card ever opens within Anki to my knowledge, it always kicks out to your > system's default browser. Who knows. > > On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 11:22:04 AM UTC-6 si wrote: > >> Hi Soren, >> >> Just to follow up on the problem of getting hyperlinks to work. I posted >> on the Anki forums >> <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-link-that-opens-a-local-html-file-in-the-browser/5088> >> >> about a month or so ago and there was no definite answer, but it sounds >> like the browser within Anki just doesn't have access to the file system >> for security reasons. No idea why it would work for you though. >> >> The good news is that I made a feature request >> <https://github.com/ijgnd/anki__Open_linked_pdf-_docs-_epub-_audio-_video-_etc_in_external_Program/issues/6> >> >> for the Anki add-on Open linked pdf, docx, epub, audio/video, etc. in >> external Program <https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879473266> and the >> author very kindly made a fix to get it working with permalinks. >> >> Anyway just letting you know that this is the best solution I found in >> case anyone else has the same problem. >> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 18:10:15 UTC Soren Bjornstad wrote: >> >>> Pretty sure it’s 64-bit. VM on Parallels on my MacBook with the >>> default license and settings. Can’t imagine why it would matter anyway. >>> >>> I’m stumped. I’d suggest you post this on the Anki forums at >>> https://forums.ankiweb.net since it’s an Anki issue at this point. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 9:42:30 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Soren. >>>> >>>> >>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default >>>> browser is configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with >>>> links. >>>> >>>> I have no problem with Anki opening websites. Anything with the prefix >>>> "https://"; will open in the browser, but when I use "file://" nothing >>>> happens. >>>> >>>> I also tried this on a totally different Windows 10 machine with an >>>> almost fresh install and still it wouldn't work. It also didn't work when >>>> I >>>> tried clicking the link from AnkiWeb. This was all with me creating the >>>> link exactly as you describe above (the file opens if I copy the path >>>> directly into the browser). >>>> >>>> Did you try it on a 64 bit Windows 10, or some earlier version (no idea >>>> if that would matter)? >>>> >>>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 13:20:43 UTC [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> I just tried it on Windows and it works fine for me. Downloaded an >>>>> HTML to my desktop and added to the card: >>>>> >>>>> <a href="file://C:/Users/soren/Desktop/test.html">link</a> >>>>> >>>>> Click the link and test.html opens in the browser. >>>>> >>>>> I'm on Anki 2.1.34 (a couple versions behind, but can't think of >>>>> anything that would have changed here). >>>>> >>>>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default browser >>>>> is configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with links. >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 6:18:22 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Soren thanks for your reply. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> The URL you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to >>>>>> use forward slashes even on Windows. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, I wasn't sure which to use here but I had tried every >>>>>> combination and it still didn't work. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember >>>>>> applied during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end of >>>>>> URLs that can't accept one there. >>>>>> >>>>>> I had noticed this, but I have tested with the correct permalink and >>>>>> it still won't work. I've also tried putting the HTML directly into the >>>>>> card (<a href="file:///C:/Users/Si/Desktop/file.html">link</a> using >>>>>> Ctrl+Shift+X), but again when I click the link while viewing the card >>>>>> nothing happens. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've noticed that there is an add-on >>>>>> <https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879473266> for opening files in an >>>>>> external program. I got it to work with an HTML file, but because it >>>>>> looks >>>>>> for a specific extension at the end of the path, it doesn't work with >>>>>> permalinks that end in "#tiddler". >>>>>> >>>>>> Is it possible that Anki just can't open external HTML files on >>>>>> Windows? >>>>>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 00:08:42 UTC [email protected] >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Si, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It works for me when I just paste an <a href> tag into the HTML >>>>>>> editor directly on a card (Ctrl-Shift-X while you have a field >>>>>>> selected). >>>>>>> The URL you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to use >>>>>>> forward slashes even on Windows. It's possible that is the issue, but I >>>>>>> don't have a Windows machine handy at the moment to test on and see if >>>>>>> that >>>>>>> breaks something. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember >>>>>>> applied during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> URLs that can't accept one there. On my first try I ended up with >>>>>>> "/home/soren/test.html/#TiddlerName" as the permalink, which is invalid >>>>>>> since an HTML file is not a directory, and this resulted in nothing >>>>>>> happening when I clicked the link. I opened an issue >>>>>>> <https://github.com/sobjornstad/TiddlyRemember/issues/31> for that. >>>>>>> To see if this is what's causing your problem, you can try manually >>>>>>> changing the text in the Permalink field of a card and removing that >>>>>>> extra >>>>>>> slash. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 3:55:47 PM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi Soren. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This might be more of an Anki question, but I have been unable to >>>>>>>> get permalinks to work in the way that you describe here >>>>>>>> <https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/#Configuring%20the%20Anki%20add-on> >>>>>>>> . >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It seems to me that Anki won't open files that are outside of the >>>>>>>> "collection.media" folder. I've been trying all sorts of permutations >>>>>>>> of <a >>>>>>>> href="file:///C:\path\to\file.html">link</a> but when I click the >>>>>>>> link nothing happens. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Is there some trick to get this to work that I'm not aware of? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 14:13:39 UTC+1 [email protected] >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It's a thought. A simple SR algorithm is not particularly hard, so >>>>>>>>> that would be doable. But recently I've been seeing sites pop up that >>>>>>>>> all >>>>>>>>> do their own spaced-repetition implementation, and the result is if >>>>>>>>> you use >>>>>>>>> more than one of them, pretty soon you have 8 places to go every day >>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>> review flashcards. I'd rather not be responsible for a fifteenth >>>>>>>>> competing standard <https://xkcd.com/927/>. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Anki also has a really nice mobile app, which is something TW >>>>>>>>> still struggles with. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 5:07:12 AM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Build the whole solution in tiddlywiki would do it. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Tony >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/64f5924c-68c7-45b6-a4df-75c43a36bf98n%40googlegroups.com.
