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ophion -

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.



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bogleg -

Hi Ophion,

Thanks for the report. I'll check it out and I'll get a fix out as soon as possible.

Chris










bogleg -

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










ophion -

Thanks, Chris. I'll check it out tonight.










ophion -

The beta releases appear to be Windows-only installers.










bogleg -

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










ophion -

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.












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