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The website "Reviewing the Kanji" has a very cool feature:

You can Test your cards as long as you want, and naturally you'll fail some and pass some.  The cool thing is, when you quit, you get a screen that shows you all of the cards that you missed, so you can review them.  It would be cool if this would be implemented in Stackz.

It would essentially require tracking of your failures during a given test.  At the end of the test, you could choose to automatically highlight those missed cards for Learning.

When the number of cards in your Stack grows so large (my vocabulary now passes 6000) a cool feedback system like this would be invaluable.

Thanks!
Brett

Hi, I'm still on RC2 but according to your notes for RC3 (4) it seems like this hasn't been mentioned yet.  Apologies if it has.

To re-create the bug, enter edit mode and edit a stack.  Then, bring up the search bar.  Type a long word in the search box.  An example is カルチャーショック.  This word is actually longer than the search entry box, and when you press "enter" to choose your selection in the IME, no text is entered!  If you search for a word that is shorter than the search entry box, like カルチャー, there is no problem.

Any time the entry (prior to conversion) is longer than the search box and it needs to go to a second line, pressing "enter" causes the text to go away.

Is that clear or should I elaborate more?

Thanks!
Brett

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Hi,

I really find the new Example Sentence feature to be great!  I have some suggestions on expanding its functionality.

Copy - It would be cool to copy an example sentence to the clipboard to paste it somewhere else.

Add to selectedstack - In addition to my "Vocab" and "Characters" Stackz files, I have a "Grammar" file which is Japanese - English.  It contains all of the sentence pairs I've found in practice tests, textbooks, etc.  It would be great to be able to copy example sentences directly in here, like you can with words in the dictionary.

Thanks!
Brett

[(1) English multi-word search]

Sorry if this has been mentioned before.

I'd like to see some improvement in the dictionary search algorithm.  There are many situations in which it is very difficult to find what you are looking for.  Here are some examples of changes I'd like to see:

(1)  English multi-word search

Let's say I'm looking for 暗記する, which means "to learn by heart."  Here's the EDICT definition:
暗記   あんき   memorization; memorisation; learning by heart   

To search for this entry, I type in "learn."  No luck.
Next is "learning."  Nope.
"Learn heart"
"Learning heart"
"Learn by heart"
"Learning by heart"

None of these searches give me the word I'm looking for, even why I type in the definition EXACTLY.
So, something needs to change there.  In my opinion, the definition should appear after any of those searches.

(2)  English single-word search, multi-word definition

Let's say I want to search for "Tank," taking the meaning of military vehicle.  Here is the EDICT definition:
戦車   せんしゃ   tank (military vehicle)

Currently there is NO WAY to search for this word.  First I search for Tank and get this:
タンク   タンク   tank   
槽   そう   (1) cistern; bath; tank; chamber; (2) bunker (coal); (3) cell (electrical); (4) vessel

Then I type "Military," guessing it might help, and get this:
軍事的   ぐんじてき   military
軍事上   ぐんじじょう   military; strategic

Then "vehicle":
ビークル   ビークル   vehicle
媒介物   ばいかいぶつ   medium; agency; carrier; vehicle
乗り物   のりもの   vehicle
乗物   のりもの   vehicle
車   くるま   car; vehicle; wheel

So, I can't find tank.  Even if I search for "tank (military vehicle)," which is the exact definition.

Stackz doesn't find it because it seems to only look at the full definition - tank (military vehicle) - and doesn't look at its parts.  So, if the algorithm could be changed to look at all words in the definition, I would be able to find it by searching for "tank," "military," OR "vehicle."  Or, if the multi-word search was implemented as describe above in (1), i could search for "tank military" or "tank vehicle" to find it.

(3)  Wildcards

This one's easy.  If I type in * hand, I want to find all words that end with hand.
Left hand, Right hand, underhand... etc.
If I search for 日, I only get one definition... but I'd like to type in *日 for all words ending in *日, or 日* for all words starting with 日, or *日* for all words containing 日.

Note that wildcards would solve the problem above...
In (1) I could search for *heart or learn* or *heart* or *learn*.  This would give me a lot of definitions to read through, like heart attack, heartache, learning, etc.  But at least I'd find what I was looking for.
In (2) I could type in *tank* and get anything from tanker to gas tank.

Hope you like these suggestions.

The way I use Stackz is to have a set number of words to learn in a given time period, and then put them in my Review stack, which I test several times a week.  So, when I have long lists of words to learn (for example, for JLPT2) I first randomize them and break them up into weekly "lessons."  Then I learn one lesson per week (usually 100 words or so) and at the end of the week I copy-paste that entire lesson into the Unknown bin of my Review stack.

The problem is, what happens when I want to go back and add more cards to those lessons?  For example, right now I have a certain number of weeks until JLPT2.  So, I broke up all of the words I need to learn into that number of lessons.  But, occasionally I'll find a nice wordlist online, for example the onomatopoeia list, and I want to distribute that evenly among my current lessons.

It would be a simple matter of copy and paste, but the problem is, Stackz doesn't let you remove focus from the Edit window when you're in it.

So, instead of: Highlight words in the onomatopoeia list, Ctrl+C, selecting a lesson stack, Ctrl+V...repeat...

I have to: Edit list, Highlight words, Ctrl+C, Save, Close edit window, Select Lesson Stack, Ctrl+V, Select new list...repeat

I know it doesn't sound that annoying, but it is!!!  :D

Anyways, it would be nice to be able to select another stack while having the edit window open.

Hi, I'm not sure if this is a bug, but it's kind of annoying me.

When I open Stackz, the Task window, Dictionary window, Kanji Info window, and Kanji search window are always in the correct position from where they were last time.  If i move them, close the program, and re-open, they will appear in the same place.  However, this is not true for Stackz files.  When I open them, the default position is always sort of off from where I want it to be, so I have to move it the way I like it.  The position does not save on restart.

So, I'm not sure if this is a bug (it's not working as intended) or a feature request (it's supposed to work this way and I just don't like it)?

Please let me know.  :D
Thanks,

Brett

Hi everyone,

I've been thinking of buying PocketStackz (and obviously a PocketPC to run it).  Since this is the ONLY thing I'll use the PocketPC for, I want to get the cheapest one possible.  Of course, I don't want to buy one so cheap that the software won't run!  Is there a listing anywhere of the minimum system requirements?  I couldn't find one anywhere on the website.  Thanks!

P.S.  I found a version of the HP Jornada 525 on the cheap: http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives/Jul01/jornada525.stm
Was thinking of buying it but don't know if it will run the software!

My cards are such that some of them (ones that are Katakana loanwords or that have the (uk) usually in kana tag) have no Entry, just a reading and translation.  When I cut a group of cards from one lesson and paste them into another, something I do quite often as I move things from new lessons to my review pile, occasionally the Entry column will be swallowed up, and then all of the other columns will move to the left.  So, the Entry on ALL cards that I paste will be discarded.  The Reading will move to the Entry column.  The Translation will move to the Reading column.  And, a seemingly random number, usually between 1 and 10, will show up in the fourth column.

As a temporary fix I am inserting a '-' as a placeholder in the Entry column for all cards that lack it.  However it seems like this is a bug that can be fixed.

In order to re-create the bug, make some cards with all attributes, and some that lack the first column.  Then copy and paste some cards between several lessons.  Hopefully you will be able to see what I'm talking about.

Thanks!

Hmmm, I tried posting this several times and got strange errors...  ???


System: Beta 1 Dictionary Edition 2007 - Windows XP Pro

Bug description: I was looking up the name of a colleague at work and I didn't know the first kanji, so I hit F8 to access the Kanji Info.  The original search was 籔根 (やぶね).  It shows up correctly in the dictionary, but in the Kanji info box, the kanji are wrong... both in the list on the left and the large view on the bottom right.

I tried to attach an image but the server won't allow me... so please do a search for 籔根 and then check the kanji info.

I am using the latest KANJIDIC.  When doing the same search in Dictionary Edition 2006 the problem does not happen.

Hope you can find the fix to this!  :D

Hi,

I used the program for about 30 minutes and checked out the new features.  Then closed it down.  A few minutes later I tried to start it up again to check out some more things, but at this point it crashes on startup.  The error message from my Visual Studio debugger is:

An unhandled win32 exception occurred in Stackz.exe [2460].  (The number in brackets changes each time)

So now it won't start up.  I will try to restart my computer and see if that alleviates the problem.