ZDT: Cut and paste option for new vocab - dealing with duplicate characters/words

[Jeff R]

Hi all,

This is my first post and I'm new to the software, so apologies if this question has already been answered. (I did check the old threads.)

I've been trying to create new categories by cutting and pasting newspaper/magazine articles I've found online, but there's an annoying little glitch when the program compiles the word list.

Whenever ZDT comes across a character or word that's already been added to the new category (because it's appeared and been listed from somewhere higher up in the text I've pasted), there's a prompt that asks me to click "OK" before proceeding.

Is there some way to suppress the prompt? For a long article you can easily click "OK" several hundred times just to get through the recurring instances of "de" or "yi1" alone. Surely there's a more efficient way to use the cut-and-paste function?

[bogleg]

Hi Jeff,

Good point. Do you think it would be more desirable to suppress the message completely or just pop up one thing at the end that displayed what it couldn't add?

Chris

[Jeff R]

I tend to think it should be eliminated completely... there doesn't seem to be much value in notifying the user that a certain character appears more than once in a pasted text.

[bogleg]

Well, if you're pasting a single entry I think there's some value in the fact that the user will get some feedback on why nothing happened (if it was a dupe).

Anyway, I agree with your general point. I have added it to my list of things to do and attempt to make it more user friendly. Thanks for the feedback.

BTW, can you point me to an example of something you're trying to copy and paste in?

Chris