Beta 1. Vista. "Refresh Advisor", Leitner mode, schedule 1 1 2 4 8 days. No problems with previous versions, including Alpha 1 and 2.
I decided to describe the actual setup. See the simpler setup below if desired.
(In every case, cutting and pasting was done with the right-click... context menu.)
One file. Five lessons. 100 cards total. Some cards in lesson 1 box 5, some in lesson 2 box 4, and some in lesson 3 box 3. All other boxes empty. Tested on lesson 2 box 4. Terminated test as usual with the "x" close button on the upper right of the test dialog. Cut the promoted cards from lesson 2 box 5, O.K. Paste these cards BACK into lesson 2 box 4: *FAIL*.
These cards will paste to any box, in any lesson, except lesson 2 box 4 and lesson 2 box 5.
Workaround: Save, with the promoted cards in lesson 2 box 5. Close and restart Stackz. Cut and paste back into box 4 succeeds.
SIMPLER SCENARIO
If you'd like a simpler scenario, this one works too: All cards in lesson 1 boxes 3, 4, 5. Create a lesson 2. Cut and paste from lesson 1 box 3 to lesson 2 box 3. Test lesson 2 box 3. Cut promoted cards, O.K. Try to paste back to lesson 2 box 3, *FAIL*.
This fault has disappeared.
I probably did something wrong (with the system, or other applications).
I'll post if I ever see it again.
It came back, during a normal testing session this time.
One lesson. Cards in boxes 3, 4, 5.
I moved the sliders on the color bar to highlight the cards due today.
I highlighted the whole lesson by clicking on the left-hand side.
I right-clicked...test, and tested these cards, about 20 in boxes 4 and 5. I missed two. Those two went to box 1.
When I was done, I opened, and then closed, the edit dialogue on each of boxes 5, 4, and 3, to check on their numbers, because I'm including # of correct answers as a promotion criterion. I saw that the two cards in box 3 were due for promotion. (I had tested them yesterday out of order, trying to duplicate this bug.)
Cut from box 3: O.K.
Paste to box 4: *FAIL*.
These cards, as I noted before, will paste to any box except 3 and 4.
Would you like me to send you my .stz file, or anything else?
I'll leave this condition open on my computer, in case you'd like me to do some kind of test.
Now something else has happened.
I went back home, where my laptop was, still running the problem condition described above.
I cut the the two cards out of box 2 again.
I highlighted box 3, and instead of right-click... paste, I tried control-v.
Now the cards are "lost". At least, they won't paste anywhere now, and my card counter says 98 instead of 100.
I'll probably get the cards back by closing Stackz without saving.
I think I'll re-download and reinstall.
Certainly, I shall continue to use it. My workaround, which I mentioned before, is to save, close and restart Stackz. (Though I won't save this time because I want the cards back.).
Good luck and Thank You!
Beta 1 Standard Edition. Vista.
I emailed you a simple procedure that duplicates the problem every time, and a workaround that works every time: after a file is created, and cards added, that file must be closed and reopened. That fixes it.
With regard to my lesson file, I don't recall ever closing it. I only closed and reopened Stackz.
Thank you so much for all your work, that's really of great value for us, and all the other Stackz users as well of course. We believe that it will be quite easy to find and fix the bug.
With your description it was easy to fix this bug. The fix will be released in the next beta.
Details:
If an edit dialog is open, the paste action sends the cards to the edit dialog and not to the stack. In the old design, the instance of an edit dialog used to stay alive after closing while its existence was taken as condition to send the cards there instead of the stack.