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somelinguist / VocabLift

Language-learning tool that uses vocabulary from LIFT-format dictionaries produced by programs such as Fieldworks Language Explorer and WeSay.
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Filters and spelling are case sensitive since 0.1.8 #2

Closed somelinguist closed 11 years ago

somelinguist commented 11 years ago

I forgot to check for case after changing the matching algorithm. I'll work on a fix for the next version.

somelinguist commented 11 years ago

Fixed in 0.1.9.

thejourneyler commented 11 years ago

What about auto suggest? have you seen the JavaScript Chosen http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/ or Select2 http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/

somelinguist commented 11 years ago

I might end up using auto-suggest for other features, but not for the spelling practice (it would defeat the purpose). I thought about it for the filters, but usually they already narrow the list down pretty well after typing 2-3 letters. I think I would rather add Excel-like filters than simple auto-suggest ones, so it would suggest things in the drop-down that could be checked or unchecked to create the filter.

I tried out Select2 in an early version for making a drop-down based on the semantic domain list, and it took a huge performance hit loading the list with that much data (it was fine after it loaded, though).

thejourneyler commented 11 years ago

Oh, I didn't see that this was about learning to spell.... but isn't that a dead skill anyway? (I mean thinking progressively and digitally....)

On Mar 18, 2013, at 9:04 AM, somelinguist wrote:

I might end up using auto-suggest for other features, but not for the spelling practice (it would defeat the purpose). I thought about it for the filters, but usually they already narrow the list down pretty well after typing 2-3 letters. I think I would rather add Excel-like filters than simple auto-suggest ones, so it would suggest things in the drop-down that could be checked or unchecked to create the filter.

I tried out Select2 in an early version for making a drop-down based on the semantic domain list, and it took a huge performance hit loading the list with that much data (it was fine after it loaded, though).

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somelinguist commented 11 years ago

I think there's still value in spelling.

Actually, the bug did cover the filters for the grid, too. I had updated both so they would match on precomposed and decomposed characters. I had to use a custom filter in angular for the grid. The default filter ignored case, which is helpful in general (noun and Noun should be the same). The spelling feature probably was case-sensitive before, but you wouldn't notice it as much. I just added .toLowerCase() in both places. But I might add an option somewhere for case sensitivity.