Editing notes with occasional inconsistency
Since some days, after the last undate, I have some inconsitency with editing notes in separate window. (My Zotero version is 4.0.28.6)
For instance, when I hit ENTER key and continue to type on the next line, the letters typed go up to last part of previous line. That is, I feel ENTER key doesn't work. This doesn't always happen, but sometimes it does. So I have to try again, and sometimes after using SPACE bar the letters are put in the right position.
Secondly, when I drag some phrase and select the background color for letters using icon, it doesn't work. But when I close the note, re-open it and try again, it work properly.
I use the Korean, two-bite letter system, and until tese days I have never met such a phenomenon.
I guess some system concerning the HTML editing may have an inconsistency.
For instance, when I hit ENTER key and continue to type on the next line, the letters typed go up to last part of previous line. That is, I feel ENTER key doesn't work. This doesn't always happen, but sometimes it does. So I have to try again, and sometimes after using SPACE bar the letters are put in the right position.
Secondly, when I drag some phrase and select the background color for letters using icon, it doesn't work. But when I close the note, re-open it and try again, it work properly.
I use the Korean, two-bite letter system, and until tese days I have never met such a phenomenon.
I guess some system concerning the HTML editing may have an inconsistency.
Anyway my OS is Korean Windows 7.
Is there any way I can check my letter system?
Dan: I don't see how this could be caused by unminifying TinyMCE, but that looks like the only potentially relevant change. Is that possible?
As you asked, I tried Zotero in another computer using tow versions: 4.0.28.6 and the previous version, that is, before the last update and after update.
I use standalone Zotero.
I noticed something different between two versions and got two screenshots.
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#screen shot 1 (before the last update)
You can see a line under the letter which appear during typing and disappear.
This version works fine and without error. Very Good.
This is the earlier version:
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/20151001_102158.png
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# screenshot 2 (4.0.28.6)
You can't see a line. And in this version there is an inconsistency.
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/20151001_102411.png
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/20151001_102158.jpg
2) the latest version (4.0.28.6)
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/20151001_102411.jpg
I added version on the screenshots
I think some change in editing notes function might happen since 4.0.28, and it makes errors for Korean letters.
I guess the users who use double-byte characters like Korean, Japanese, etc. may have similar problems.
At first I thought the errors might be due to my computer sysetm or so. But after downgrading Zotero in my 3 computers, I came to the conclusiion that there are some bugs in 4.0.28.6 concerning note function.
I really love Zotero. I hope you find the cause and fix the problem.
Bye. Have a nice day.
And even if you can't reproduce it reliably, a Report ID after triggering it once would be helpful.
I tried to record errors. And at this address you can download .avi file.
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/record.avi
1) I opened new child note.
2) I typed some phrases.
3) At 0:15-0:18, you can see the cursor suddenly goes down and up.
As you said I made a error report : Report ID: 1644830533
If this is not enough, I will try to find out some other ways to let you know the exact phenomena...
Thanks.
I put my voice to explain...^^
You can see another error: the ENTER key didn't work.
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/record2.avi
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For your understanding I made 3rd .avi.
This time, I used 4.0.28 version on which everything is fine.
You can see how the Korean letters were typed with temporal small underline.
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/record3.avi
But when I typed the Korean on the newest version, I felt something changed in note-taking module in 4.0.28.6. And the errors happen from time to time. So it's difficult for me to catch or explain the exact context. The avi files aboves are results of many trials. So I guess the double-byte letter system like Korean, Jepanese or Chinese Windows may share the same errors.
I think it's best to restore or maintain note-taking module like one of 4.0.28.
Because 4.0.28 is very stable.
I tried my 3 computers with Korean Windows 7. The result is that there are errors on 4.0.28.6 while no one on 4.0.28.
In fact, I used Standalone version, but for the test I installed Firefox and your Zotero beta versions.
Result is following:
1. zotero-4.0.28.7
- Nothing improved.
2. zotero-4.0.28.7-note-reminification
- Better, but some errors remain.
- The highlighting errors wasn't fixed (4.0.28.6 has this error from the beginning. It also occurs from time to time.)
For improvement I captured what happened on my PC after many traials, and made them into small movies, using zotero-4.0.28.7-note-reminification(.wmv files). :)
Bug report #1
- Highligting error.
- As I said, this error happens from time to time.
- When the error occurs and I close the note and reopen it, the error disappears.
=> http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/4.0.28.7_test_highlighting_error.wmv
Bug report #2
- Typing errors.
- Usually errors happened when I typed some lines and deleted the last line and retyped something using SpaceBar or Enter keys.
- I guess the errors have some relations with treating HTML code. So I tried to capture the HTML coding windows.
=> http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/4.0.28.7_test_typing_error.wmv
I hope this report would help you find out the cause and fix errors.
Thanks in advance.
Can you install Zotero 4.0.28 for Firefox and see if the problem occurs with that? (Ignore any other issues — 4.0.28 wasn't fully compatible with Firefox 41.) I just realized that, since you've only been testing with Standalone, there's a good chance that this actually wasn't a change in Zotero code at all and is just the version change in the underlying Mozilla framework (basically, the corresponding Firefox version) in Standalone between 4.0.28 and 4.0.28.6.
I tried two experiments:
Trial #1 : FireFox4.1+Zotero 4.0.28 => Errors !
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/firefox4.1_zoterotest4.0.28_error.wmv
Trial #2 : FireFox4.0+Zotero 4.0.28 => No errors.
http://acpforkr.cafe24.com/firefox4.0_zoterotest4.0.28_good.wmv
Do we need other tests ? Tell me any time.
I'm enjoying testing now. :)
Thanks for your kindness.
This actually isn't specific to Zotero. I can reproduce it with even the latest dev version of TinyMCE, the note editor we use.
The good news is that it looks like this was a bug in Firefox that's been fixed in the nightly builds. The bad news is that it's still happening in the latest Firefox beta, which will become Firefox 42. Tomorrow I'll try to find the relevant fix so that we can see 1) whether there's any chance of its making it into Firefox 42 and 2) if there's anything we can do to work around the bug in the meantime.
Thanks for your help debugging this.
I understood the situation: the bugs are due to FireFox, not to Zetero ; there will be debugging ; in the next version of FireFox/Zetero, there will be no errors. That's good news.
For my research, I use ZSA 4.0.28 which I can use without errors.
In my part, I want to do anything to help debug Zotero.
If you need some testing concerning the present errors on Korean windows, tell me any time.
Bye. Have a nice day.
Many, many thanks for the care that went into this thread. It's great to see an issue affecting Asian language support dealt with so quickly.
(Also, this is limited to Korean text.)