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Original tomboy vs tomboy-ng note text linking difference issue.
I had a few thousand notes in original tomboy. I've brought them over to tomboy-ng 0.34 and there is one difference between the 2 that is causing me a problem - the way text in notes is linked to other notes. Original tomboy used to link to the longest note title possible with found text, tomboy-ng seems to link tp the shortest. For example, suppose I have 2 notes with titles:
Widget Blue Widget
And in another note I have the text: Acme is my favorite Blue Widget
Original tomboy would link the text to the "Blue Widget" note while tomboy-ng will display the Blue Widget text underlined as a link but when I click on the "Widget" part it it will actually link to the "Widget" note and when I click on the "Blue" part it will bring up a nonexistent note with the title "Blue_"
This is a major problem with my note taking strategy but also is the only real incompatibility issue I've seen, so thank you for carrying the tomboy fire into the future.
OK Doninny, that sounds bad.
I can replicate your problem so I will see what I can do !
Davo
Yeah, found it. Its a bug that has been there since day one ! I can and have fixed it but will need to do some testing before I let you have it, been some changes in significant part of the code. Couple of days ....
Davo
Windows 10, 64 bit. On Friday, April 15, 2022, 02:14:29 AM EDT, davidbannon @.***> wrote:
What operating system and 32/64 bit are you using doninny ?
Davo
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I've note this problem as well, so if you want to build a 64-bit rpm version, I will give it a test.
OK, but I have spotted a problem during my testing, the "search while you type" feature has an issue so I needed to fix that. But playing in that space I spotted a potential place where I can speed it up so more alpha testing will be needed I am afraid. Should not be too long ...
Davo
OK, I have pushed out a 'fix' version, 0.43b, that fixes this problem. doninny, in your case, its tomboy-ng-setup-0.34b.exe. Roy, you know the system !
EDIT: obviously, I mean 0.34b, not 0.43b, https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/releases/download/v0.34/tomboy-ng-setup-0.34b.exe
Now, these are not as well tested as I usually do before a release because I plan to add some (hopefully clever) patches that will deliver a very useful speedup for users with a lot of notes in the next couple of weeks. So, please be watchful and report anything that surprises you !
Davo
Ok my original example of Widget and Blue Widget now works (tomboy now correctly links to the Blue Widget note) but I still have a related issue. I've reduced it down to the following example...
I deleted my original Widget and Blue Widget notes and created 2 notes with the following titles: Widget My Favorite Blue Widget
I copied the title from the "My Favorite Blue Widget" note into a 3rd note (as the only text on a line). Instead of linking the text to the "My Favorite Blue Widget" note it underlines and highlights in blue the Widget part and clicking on Widget brings up the Widget note.
Hmm, sounds like a similar variant of the same problem, I have probably made the same, wrong, assumption somewhere else. I will need to dig in there a bit more, with your clear description, should not be too hard to find. Thanks Davo
The past 2 days I've been getting a popup error message I've never seen before popping up occasionally:
List index (###) out of bounds.
Where ### seems to be a different number each time.
Hmm, thats bad. Can you remember what you were doing when it happened ?
I have (finally) fixed the second part of the problem you reported here, turned out to be quite hard and I have had to rewrite a lot of the code that finds links in the notes. (And, sadly, the new code may be just a little slower). And thats an area where a list index is at risk. I'll be doing some more testing so, maybe I will see the problem you mention (or a new one!).
I hope to get a new test release out in the next few days. Be really good if you could test it, especially for the list index problem.
Davo
Not sure what's triggering the message. It's come up between 5 and 10 times in the last 2 days just when I was typing in some note. I'm unable to reproduce it on demand and I'm not sure what I might have been doing different that triggered it. If I can produce the error on demand and track something down I will.
Maybe if you can give me some idea what a "List index" is that will help me reproduce the issue.
Hi Doninny, I know it looks bad but happening that frequently is, from my point of view good. It means when you start using the next beta, if it goes away, we know we have it fixed !
Sadly, bugs like that can be hard to locate unless I can reproduce it here and so far, I have not.
If it happens while you are typing in that note, it does sound to me like its the code that manages the links to other notes appearing. There are several 'lists' in there, I made a lot of changes in there, removing one sort of list and replacing it with another, lighter one. So, could be there but I have been hammering my test app here today and not seen any problems. Maybe its fixed in my new code. My new code has passed all its tests on Linux, I need to test on Windows and Mac yet but so far, looks good. So, expect it soon.
Incidentally, what operating system do you use ?
Davo
I have placed some 0.34c packages in https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/releases I believe that they fix both problems mentioned here, been quite a lot of code change so please report anything unexpected ! Thanks for your help. Davo
For b there was a tomboy-ng-setup-0.34b.exe I installed but I don't seem to see a tomboy-ng-setup-0.34c.exe
Ah, sorry doninny, I have missed the Windows one while uploading. Its there now. https://github.com/tomboy-notes/tomboy-ng/releases/download/v0.34/tomboy-ng-setup-0.34c.exe
Davo
OK, looks like this is certainly fixed in 0.35 So, I'll close Thanks for the report. Davo