sammdot/alleycat

Free computer-aided transcription system for stenographers

Sammi De Guzman 陳慧珊 🇵🇭 🇭🇰 🇨🇦

Hi! I'm Sammi (she/her), a software engineer at Twitter, and currently based in San Francisco, California. I studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where I previously worked as a teaching assistant.

I like to cook, write code, design pretty websites, take transit, fly virtual planes, and run around a deserted island in my spare time.

alleycat's Issues

(Windows) AlleyCAT crashes when opening an existing or new file

Title is self explanatory. AlleyCAT does recognize keystrokes, but crashes when clicking New File or Open File (with an .rtf file created by AlleyCAT).
I installed AlleyCAT with the provided .msi, and alleycat-link through the command line. alleycat-link is properly enabled (no err messages).

Sys info:

• OS: Windows 10 Family 22H2
• Locale: French (Canada)
• Plover: 4.0.0.dev12

Troubleshooting steps tried:

1. Rebooting computer.
2. Restarting AlleyCAT.
3. Restarting Plover.

AlleyCAT opens blank window and can't be closed after clicking "New" in menu bar

After opening a new document and then clicking "New" in the menu bar, AlleyCAT opened a new blank window titled tao window.
The program wasn't unresponsive or anything, it just wouldn't close with the normal X or via alt+f4. It closed when stopped via task manager.

Windows 10, AlleyCAT-win v0.4.3
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18739767/186309961-0c36910b-1635-4b4f-b043-14f9b24b20d0.mp4

Edit: This also happens when opening an existing file from the same menu bar. Opening documents and creating new documents from the main screen works as expected.

Correcting certain strokes while connected to Plover causes input to jump to beginning of document

While connected to Plover with translations enabled, certain strokes cause the input to jump to the beginning of the document, output part of the stroke, and jump back at the next stroke. For example, stroking burial PWU/REU/A*L with the misstroke and correction AL/*/A*L outputs PWU -> bury -> bury al -> bury -> ial bury.

Windows 10, AlleyCAT 0.4.3

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a new document in AlleyCAT.
2. Connect to Plover and enable translations.
3. Stroke PWU/REU/AL/*/A*L. (The stroke might be different, as I'm using Aerick's Lapwing dictionaries.)
4. You should see ial bury.

The stroke that outputs "ial" actually appears at the top of AlleyCAT's paper tape.

This does not happen with:

• PWR*EU/KWRAL burial
• TROR/KWRAOEUZ terrorize
• PWU/REU/KWRAOEUZ buryize
• PWU/REU/KWRAEUT buryiate
• TROR/A*L terroral
• TER/TOER/A*L territorial
  (each stroked with AL/* before the last stroke)

It does occur with:

• TER/TOER/KWRAL (TER/TOER/AL/*/KWRAL)

alleycat.bug.001.mp4

No link from AlleyCAT to Plover, couldn't find the plugin.

I don't know if it should be posted here:
Just after I read (17th Aug 2022) the news on Mirabai's Opensteno blog, immediately I had downloaded the newest/latest Plover and AlleyCAT to my Xubuntu Linux szmirlap 5.15.0-46-generic #49~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 4 19:15:44 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
I started Plover, then AlleyCAT. Could not find in Plugin's Manager the plugin for AlleyCAT (nothing like alleycat-link).
Plover works great.
AlleyCAT works great.
But they don't work together.
I'm not a programmer, just a user.