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#37 Apparently valid dkf file not accepted
I wrote a little quick script to pull the private pilot
questions off the FAA website and turn them into
Granule XML. However, Granule will not accept the DKF
file. Rather than submit the whole XML file, I
included the script that generate it, since it's a lot
shorter.
You should be able to run it yourself and produce a CDF
and a DKF files. It does depend on "wget" and
"pdftotext", but most Linux boxes have those.
Anyway, I know I'm close, but what am I doing wrong here?
Sorry to submit this as a bug in Granule when it's
likely something I'm doing wrong, but I didn't know how
else to get in touch w/ you.
Script to generate FAA Private Pilot Test
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I attached modified deck file with first 4 cards generated
by your script.
A few points:
1) You were getting a parse error because <back></back> tag
CANNOT be empty. That should have been reported by the error
dialog - I'll fix it in the next release.
2) I suggest putting an answer A, B, or C in the <back> tag
so that you can test yourself. If you don't have a cheat
sheet with the right answers for your questions, you might
put A as initial entry and then put the full answer in
<example> field.</example></back>
3) Granule was not designed for multiple choice answers. The
implication is that the front side of the card is optimized
to hold a single word or a phrase - text is centered in the
middle of the field. In your case, it is a block of text
that you attempt to fit in.
As a temprary measure, you can either reduce the font size
of the front text, or split that first long sentence in lets
say 20-30 characters on a
word boundary.
It seems reasonable to have an option of selecting the
layout of the front text and make it deck-specific. I'll try
to add this functionality into either 1.2.1 or 1.2.2 release.
4) Card ID better be a timestamp (with prefix underscore).
It is not a requirement, but I'm afraid somewhere in the
code it attempts to convert the ID into the creation time.
UNIX command 'date +%s' would give you the time reference.
5) It seems that with the front not being a single word any
more, the Front: field of the CardView should become
adjustable to fit the text in its entirety. I will try to
fix that too.
6) I noticed that there are picture references in the text.
Are these pictures available? It would be cool to have a
capability to show the pics along with the cards where
applicable.
7) You don't generate *.cdf files - they are a by-product of
your learning process. The manual explains it in details.
A properly-formatted example
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(1) OK I really think that fact that the back can't be empty
is a bug. Since I can create cards inside the program
that have the back as blank and it will fail to load them
after I save them and restart. This seems...not right. :)
(2) Yeah, they don't supply the answers so I have to figure
out all the answers first!
(3) I'm not having an issue. The questions seems quite
readable.
(4) Card ID timestamp: Err. ok, but I think all my cards
would have the same timestamp and that would not be good.
right? You're saying just pick a time and then increament it?
(6) Figures...yeah, the figures aren't available anywhere I
can find online, but I have hardcopies. Since it's the
Federal government it's not covered by copyright so I could
scan the images in. However, some of them are very big and
would never be readable on the size of the card.
(7) CDF generation: Sorry, I'm a granule newbie. I did
figure something like that after I posted last night.
Warning! Feature creep: You might like to add a "quiz" mode
where the user can pick from multiple choice answers.
There's a few programs out there that do this, but I like
yours, especially since it's runs on the Nokia 770!
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I opened a new bug report to fix an empty <back></back>
field tag problem. Closed this discussion.