ophion Posted August 30, 2006 at 11:36 AM Report Posted August 30, 2006 at 11:36 AM It seems to be. There is an entirely reproducible problem involving the definition choices presented to the user. For example, xing2 carries the following definition: all right; capable; competent; OK; okay; to go; to do; to travel; temporary; to walk; to go; will do. It seems that the program randomly chooses one aspect of the definition (using semicolons as delimiters), marks it as the correct choice, then randomly chooses "incorrect" choices from the definitions of other characters. In a recent session, xing2 was given with both "capable" and "to go" as choices. I chose "to go" and was told that the answer was "incorrect." "Capable" was clearly what the program had chosen as the correct answer, but it also clearly had done no checking on its other choices to see whether they were also correct. This problem has cropped up with many other characters and definitions in my limited testing (just downloaded the applications last night). If I am doing something strange to cause this behavior, then please let me know. If the behavior truly is a bug, then a fix would be much appreciated. I had begun coding a flashcard program in Python for my own use, but zdt seems to offer roughly the same functionality and will save me quite a lot of work if I can use it. Quote
bogleg Posted August 30, 2006 at 02:01 PM Report Posted August 30, 2006 at 02:01 PM Hi Ophion, Thanks for the report. I'll check it out and I'll get a fix out as soon as possible. Chris Quote
bogleg Posted September 7, 2006 at 05:33 AM Report Posted September 7, 2006 at 05:33 AM I've just released a new beta build which you can find the details of here. It should fix the definition test problem you were facing. Please let me know if it works. Chris Quote
ophion Posted September 7, 2006 at 06:21 PM Author Report Posted September 7, 2006 at 06:21 PM Thanks, Chris. I'll check it out tonight. Quote
ophion Posted September 22, 2006 at 11:53 AM Author Report Posted September 22, 2006 at 11:53 AM The beta releases appear to be Windows-only installers. Quote
bogleg Posted September 22, 2006 at 02:55 PM Report Posted September 22, 2006 at 02:55 PM Yeah, that's true. What OS are you running? I'll have a beta 3 out sometime next week. I'll be sure to make a build for whatever OS you're using and send it to you. Chris Quote
ophion Posted September 23, 2006 at 03:43 AM Author Report Posted September 23, 2006 at 03:43 AM I have a Windows media center PC at home and a Windows desktop at work, so I *could* test it. However, I tend to do all of my personal business and studying on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Quote
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