Bugs
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Bugs in SuperMemo
- Images in HTML remain in the Elements folder after Done
- SuperMemo relaunches at startup
- Bug: pending subset
- Bug: SuperMemo crashes after trying to rename a script
- Fatal error when importing a text file into Tasklist
- Problematic conversion from spelling to regular templates
- Random learning doesn't actually memorize items
- Non-default learning always falls back to the default order
- Swapping Q&A in browser does not refresh title in contents
- Item title is not always updated when swaping Q&A
- Images paste into wrong component even though correct component is selected
- Some elements preselect text during learn
- Duplicate image not detected
- Cannot edit Japanese strings in Contents
- fonts disappear on merge or transfer
- Elements removed from learning in XML import
- Web pages may not import as local
- Duplicate registry entries after transfer
- Problems with importing text files
- Error_using_copy_and_paste_in_the_contents_window
- Links not updated at collection transfer
- References_created_within_a_paragraph_extend_to_the_entire_paragraph
- Cannot do NOT-search with different case sensitity?
- Monthly workload accepts mouse input on meaningless fields
- Workload:_Moving_between_Graph_and_Daily_tabs_looses_current_date_slection
- Workload: Date outside the learning process: Jan 12, 2007
- If you cancel a merge (I was merging a subset), it just goes ahead and merges what had been written into the temporary file up to the point of cancelling rather than aborting the entire merge operation
- Delay information mismatch in Element Data Window
- Delay Factor wrongly estimated
- Stats not updated after Q&A import
- Category not set at Q&A import
- Commander forgets to stay in the command field
- Missing paths when using File-Import-Files_and_Folders
- Issues with the Built-in File Explorer
- Issues with Main-menu--Edit--Add to Category--HTML file
- Opening some windows breaks custom layouts
- Problem with binary file externalization
- Minor bug: frozen "Clear the picture?" dialogue box
- Minor bug: Command name dialogue box opens behind SuperMemo Commander window
- Minor bug: Custom colours appear black, but they're actually grey
- Minor bug: Ctrl+J triggers "Final drill?" dialogue box
- Bug: SleepChart data loss upon import
- Bug report:Installing icons
- Bug: Split generates different results
- Bug: Remote images window access keys
- Bug: Control bar disappears upon changing themes
- Bug: Using the keyboard arrows to move the priority slider doesn't work
- Bug: SuperMemo window disappears after pressing Esc
- Bug: Switching from Dragging to Editing mode doesn't work well
- Bug: Automatic switch to component Dragging mode
- Bug: Element data appear when Contents window touches the Element window
- High CPU usage when using access keys
- Bug in SleepChart alertness computation procedure
- Bug: Cannot get block data on Day
- Bug: Ctrl+click HTML component does not view element
- Bug: SuperMemo does not close if Plan window is open
- Bug: Plan is the only tool which permits interaction with Main Window
- Bug: SleepChart moving when deleting a sleep block
- Plan: Range check error on curly brackets
- Bug: Sleep Chart does not remember its folder
- Bug: Deleting a file results in a disorganisation of windows
- Bug: registry name not updating
- Cannot receive numeric input
- Bug: Element data empty fields
Design problems
- Total text size limit is 2 GB
- Collection merge is incomplete
- Backup on file pick-list is misleading
- Texts in templates get changed unpredictably
- HTML gets filtered when moving between collections
- Need to run without Administrator privilegs in Windows
- Rename collection unreliable
- Changing one texts reformats all similar texts
- Leech grades are not translated
- Binary components are not designed to hold HTML files
- SuperMemo does not respect date format setting
Problems to investigate
- Registry windows fail to open in SuperMemo
- If I grade an item while learning, and use Search after that, the grade I gave will be forgotten.
- Pressing Ctrl+F upon making a text selection opens the browser Find dialog instead of SuperMemo Find elements
- elements reported as belonging to a selected category are not referenced as belonging to it in the category registry
- Topics appear as Q&A Item on PocketPC
- chinese characters in UTF8 XML Q&A export are encoded wrong
- cloze deletion on duplicate extracts leads to a wrong q&a pair in items
- Scrambled questions and answers
- Merging collections changes the font
- Error setting focus on HTML component
- Stubborn HTML formatting
- Problem import SuperMemo CE XML file into SuperMemo 2004
- Elements get mixed
- Delete repetition history dialog behind the repetition history window
- When generating cloze questions, selections with "&" in front, like in "information a & infromation b", will not be made successfully: the parent topic and the generated item for the affected word (information b) use the same HTML. Both display [...] for that word, if change the text in parent topic, the generated item will be changed as well.
- RTF texts got mixed up
- Shortcut conflicts in the text registry
- Content window redrawing problem when moving items
- Converting plain text in a wrong component
- It's impossible to input symbol 'f' in the HTML/UNICODE field in the Find Unicode dialog. Every time pressing 'f' one run search because of shortcut 'F' in the 'Find button'
- SuperMemo should ask if I want to modify only this element as soon as any change is applied (e.g. component resized) and not only upon adding a new component or deleting one of the available ones
- SuperMemo loses track of images, loses some formatting, and loses the component's mode upon transferring collections
- Not all font sizes are allowed in HTML
- Mis-reported priority upon extract
- References created within a paragraph extend to the entire paragraph
- Strange scrollbar in Analysis:Matrices
- When I import a Q&A text file into a category, it applies the category template, but Ctrl+Alt+P says "category:none".
- Problems with SM16 when minimizing the main window
- Grade keyboard shortcuts do not work in Leech Alert dialog box
- Feature visibility issues in Read-only and Learn-only modes
- Tools : Plan: Right-clicking the R column duplicates it. This is a minor inconsequential bug that disappears upon re-opening the schedule manager
- If you choose Window : Hide SuperMemo with the opened schedule manager, SuperMemo will be minimized to the system tray but the schedule manager window will remain on top
- Cannot determine year in Plan
- if I check Use question and answer fonts in HTML and start editing text in an HTML component, why doesn't the font change for the newly typed text but remains the same
- A range check error after selecting multiple elements
- Plan: Save as function produces different results under different themes
"Bugs" "outside" SuperMemo
- Interference with MSN Desktop Search
- Error setting HTML text
- First paste to HTML is always very slow
- Topics disappear after cloze
- Menu hotkeys disappear
- various non-Unicode glyphs "merge": Asian languages (this is not exactly a bug, but a result of glyph merging in Unicode)
- SuperMemo replaces relative HTML links with absolute HTML links
- disappearing Total parameter
- Warrior layout: floating toolbars lose their original positions
- it is not possible to use a chinese input method to change a item/topic name in the content view
- chinese characters disappear in Plain Text Components after switching to the Edit-Mode and back
- Component shows up in editing mode - although the Presentation Mode is active
- Sound card not detected
- My Kanjis disappeared!
- Problems with editing HTML in MS Word
- Wikipedia slow to load
- Bug cannot open hyperlinks - I don't think that this is something to do with SuperMemo itself, but rather the way which the Chinese browser alters your computer.
Bugs that could not be reproduced
- Wrong rename on subfolders in Contents
- Range check error in Mercy
- Bug in export elements with images to HTML
Non-bugs
Use vs. recommended strategy issues:
- Text randomly highlights during edit
- Odd startup difficulty behavior
- Registry Windows: List of registry items is rendered as solid white block
- Element Parameters Window is too large for the screen
- Plan: Saving a schedule will remove Rigid