Add-on not working with latest Anki (2.1.49)

[musse]

I'm running Anki ⁨2.1.49 on MacOS. I've downloaded the shared deck and it is working fine. However, the add-on doesn't seem to be working. I don't see the [...] button when creating a note (see screenshot below). The keyboard shortcut (cmd+shift+c on MacOS) that works for Anki's native Cloze note doesn't work for Cloze Anything notes either. The shared deck is useful, but without the add-on, it is a bit hard to add new notes.

[matthayes]

Thanks for the report. The plugin doesn't work for Anki 2.1.44 and later due to changes made to the editor. I haven't worked out the necessary changes to fix this. Sorry but for now you'll have to edit the ((c1::blah))-like markup manually until I fix it, or use an earlier version of Anki.

[musse]

Sure, no problem. I have investigated a bit on my side, let me add the information here in case it's useful.

AFAIU, a good chunk of the cloze editing logic was moved to the Svelte side of Anki.

The Editor._onCloze() method that the add-on monkey-patches is now deprecated and doesn't seem to be called anymore.

Maybe adding a new button using the setupEditorButtons hook and using a different keyboard shortcut would be easier than overriding Anki's cloze button. I've given it a try and the onCloze method from this add-on still seems to be working.

addHook("setupEditorButtons", addMyButton)

def addMyButton(buttons, editor: Editor):
    editor._links['clozeAnything'] = onCloze
    return buttons + [editor._addButton(
        "iconname", # "/full/path/to/icon.png",
        "clozeAnything", # link name
        "tooltip")]

[matthayes]

Thanks for your investigation! I was also thinking it would probably be easier to just add a new button and keyboard shortcut considering the changes that were made to Anki. I'll try this out and hopefully get the plugin updated soon.

[matthayes]

I got it working! I've released the new version, so you can update the plugin and try it. Please let me know if this is working for you now. I had to change the shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+W unfortunately.

Here's how I fixed it: https://github.com/matthayes/anki_cloze_anything/commit/8ea67d7f033242795ba42706b9006a8a6c70f669

This fix ended up being a bit involved. There were some tricky issues to work out, which I've explained in the code comments.

[matthayes]

Note that I tested on the Anki beta for 2.1.50 and the plugin is only partially working. I opened an issue to track it: https://github.com/matthayes/anki_cloze_anything/issues/23

[matthayes]

FYI there's a PR to fix the issue in 2.1.50.