Good catch, I'll fix that as well. On Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 9:21:01 PM UTC-6 TW Tones wrote:
> Soren, > > You say "white lightbulb icon on the* edit toolbar*" but it should be the > "*Editor Toolbar*". The small icons in edit mode, the Edit Tool Bar is > above and has delete discard and done buttons. > > Regards > Tony > > On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 15:00:01 UTC+11 Soren Bjornstad wrote: > >> Si, >> >> Thanks for reporting back! I'm super busy right now finishing things up >> before the holidays, but I'll keep this in my inbox and throw something in >> the docs about that add-on for anyone else who has the same problem. >> >> I'm still baffled about why it seems to work on my computer and not >> yours. It makes sense that the browser inside Anki doesn't have access to >> the filesystem, but that's not what the link is supposed to do...no link on >> a card ever opens within Anki to my knowledge, it always kicks out to your >> system's default browser. Who knows. >> >> On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 11:22:04 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >> >>> Hi Soren, >>> >>> Just to follow up on the problem of getting hyperlinks to work. I posted >>> on the Anki forums >>> <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-link-that-opens-a-local-html-file-in-the-browser/5088> >>> >>> about a month or so ago and there was no definite answer, but it sounds >>> like the browser within Anki just doesn't have access to the file system >>> for security reasons. No idea why it would work for you though. >>> >>> The good news is that I made a feature request >>> <https://github.com/ijgnd/anki__Open_linked_pdf-_docs-_epub-_audio-_video-_etc_in_external_Program/issues/6> >>> >>> for the Anki add-on Open linked pdf, docx, epub, audio/video, etc. in >>> external Program <https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879473266> and the >>> author very kindly made a fix to get it working with permalinks. >>> >>> Anyway just letting you know that this is the best solution I found in >>> case anyone else has the same problem. >>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 18:10:15 UTC Soren Bjornstad wrote: >>> >>>> Pretty sure it’s 64-bit. VM on Parallels on my MacBook with the >>>> default license and settings. Can’t imagine why it would matter anyway. >>>> >>>> I’m stumped. I’d suggest you post this on the Anki forums at >>>> https://forums.ankiweb.net since it’s an Anki issue at this point. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 9:42:30 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Soren. >>>>> >>>>> >>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default >>>>> browser is configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with >>>>> links. >>>>> >>>>> I have no problem with Anki opening websites. Anything with the prefix >>>>> "https://"; will open in the browser, but when I use "file://" nothing >>>>> happens. >>>>> >>>>> I also tried this on a totally different Windows 10 machine with an >>>>> almost fresh install and still it wouldn't work. It also didn't work when >>>>> I >>>>> tried clicking the link from AnkiWeb. This was all with me creating the >>>>> link exactly as you describe above (the file opens if I copy the path >>>>> directly into the browser). >>>>> >>>>> Did you try it on a 64 bit Windows 10, or some earlier version (no >>>>> idea if that would matter)? >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 13:20:43 UTC soren.b...@gmail.com >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I just tried it on Windows and it works fine for me. Downloaded an >>>>>> HTML to my desktop and added to the card: >>>>>> >>>>>> <a href="file://C:/Users/soren/Desktop/test.html">link</a> >>>>>> >>>>>> Click the link and test.html opens in the browser. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm on Anki 2.1.34 (a couple versions behind, but can't think of >>>>>> anything that would have changed here). >>>>>> >>>>>> Do other links to websites work in Anki? Perhaps your default browser >>>>>> is configured wrong and Anki can't figure out what to do with links. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Friday, November 13, 2020 at 6:18:22 AM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi Soren thanks for your reply. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>> The URL you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs >>>>>>> to use forward slashes even on Windows. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, I wasn't sure which to use here but I had tried every >>>>>>> combination and it still didn't work. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember >>>>>>> applied during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> URLs that can't accept one there. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I had noticed this, but I have tested with the correct permalink and >>>>>>> it still won't work. I've also tried putting the HTML directly into the >>>>>>> card (<a href="file:///C:/Users/Si/Desktop/file.html">link</a> >>>>>>> using Ctrl+Shift+X), but again when I click the link while viewing the >>>>>>> card >>>>>>> nothing happens. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've noticed that there is an add-on >>>>>>> <https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/879473266> for opening files in an >>>>>>> external program. I got it to work with an HTML file, but because it >>>>>>> looks >>>>>>> for a specific extension at the end of the path, it doesn't work with >>>>>>> permalinks that end in "#tiddler". >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Is it possible that Anki just can't open external HTML files on >>>>>>> Windows? >>>>>>> On Friday, 13 November 2020 at 00:08:42 UTC soren.b...@gmail.com >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Si, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It works for me when I just paste an <a href> tag into the HTML >>>>>>>> editor directly on a card (Ctrl-Shift-X while you have a field >>>>>>>> selected). >>>>>>>> The URL you list is not a valid file: URL, however -- it needs to use >>>>>>>> forward slashes even on Windows. It's possible that is the issue, but >>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>> don't have a Windows machine handy at the moment to test on and see if >>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>> breaks something. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> It does appear that the permalink generation in TiddlyRemember >>>>>>>> applied during the sync is incorrectly putting a backslash at the end >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> URLs that can't accept one there. On my first try I ended up with >>>>>>>> "/home/soren/test.html/#TiddlerName" as the permalink, which is >>>>>>>> invalid >>>>>>>> since an HTML file is not a directory, and this resulted in nothing >>>>>>>> happening when I clicked the link. I opened an issue >>>>>>>> <https://github.com/sobjornstad/TiddlyRemember/issues/31> for >>>>>>>> that. To see if this is what's causing your problem, you can try >>>>>>>> manually >>>>>>>> changing the text in the Permalink field of a card and removing that >>>>>>>> extra >>>>>>>> slash. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 3:55:47 PM UTC-6 si wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi Soren. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This might be more of an Anki question, but I have been unable to >>>>>>>>> get permalinks to work in the way that you describe here >>>>>>>>> <https://sobjornstad.github.io/TiddlyRemember/#Configuring%20the%20Anki%20add-on> >>>>>>>>> . >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> It seems to me that Anki won't open files that are outside of the >>>>>>>>> "collection.media" folder. I've been trying all sorts of permutations >>>>>>>>> of <a >>>>>>>>> href="file:///C:\path\to\file.html">link</a> but when I click the >>>>>>>>> link nothing happens. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Is there some trick to get this to work that I'm not aware of? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Saturday, 30 May 2020 at 14:13:39 UTC+1 soren.b...@gmail.com >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> It's a thought. A simple SR algorithm is not particularly hard, >>>>>>>>>> so that would be doable. But recently I've been seeing sites pop up >>>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>>> all do their own spaced-repetition implementation, and the result is >>>>>>>>>> if you >>>>>>>>>> use more than one of them, pretty soon you have 8 places to go every >>>>>>>>>> day to >>>>>>>>>> review flashcards. I'd rather not be responsible for a fifteenth >>>>>>>>>> competing standard <https://xkcd.com/927/>. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Anki also has a really nice mobile app, which is something TW >>>>>>>>>> still struggles with. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 5:07:12 AM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Build the whole solution in tiddlywiki would do it. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Tony >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/6bd4fff8-a810-4122-9ff9-b3f3544a6769n%40googlegroups.com.
