I tried the page in FireFox, Mac OS 10.3, U.S. keyboard: ctrl aeoun : nothing ctrl-shift aeoun : nothing ctrl 12 : nothing alt u : usual Mac umlaut + waiting...
Hi there, It's beginning to look like this is a useful approach on some systems, but it wouldn't really be appropriate to include it in the main release, ...
What about inserting non-Roman characters at cursor position with the keypad? (rather than at the end of the string) Write any word, click the cursor in the...
I must have misread Stewart's message. I thought it didn't work in Safari either. And Safari is based on Konqueror, so I suspect it would fail there too. did I...
It seems there is a bit confusion. In the example http://www.academiasinicaeuropaea.net/InsertAtCuror_example.htm there are TWO different codes: one is for...
Hi there, ... OK, that's what we need to know: how well do both code blocks work on non-Windows browsers (Safari and Konqueror). But a failure on Opera is...
Hi there, Tests in WinXP SP2: 1: ¡: Ctrl+1; ¿: Ctrl+2; don't work, i.e. nothing happens, should they work? 2: font face="Wingdings 3">â</font>...
Hi Martin, It wasn't my intention to convince you to include code in the main HotPot release, just to inform the quite serious number of PC+IE/Nestcape/Mozilla...
... wrote: Hi Alberto, I appreciate your work, since students wanting to correct their mistakes (as fete instead of fête in French) set the cursor in the ...
Beste Martin, I'm doing some self study to understand more about the HP source code. I can't find nowhere some data of the configuration screen. In which...
Who can help me? I made a gap-fill by using JCloze, but when I click the choice button, all the answer words appear. Why my excercise doesn't like the ...
Beste Richey, I think you should go to the configuration screen. There you choose the tab 'miscellaneous'. There you will find that you can choose different...
Hi Martin, I have downloaded and installed Opera 9.0 beta build 8333 and the code for inserting accents at the cursor point works perfectly well. It looks like...
Hi there, The data in the configuration screen is taken by the program and included in the output file in various places. Usually, this is done through an...
Hi Henny I'm not quite sure what you're asking for. All the information in the fields in the configuration window are saved as part of your Hot Potatoes data...
Hi there, The drop-down JCloze exercise uses all the answers in the exercise to create the choices; it doesn't use the alternate correct answers. If you want...
Hi Richey In the Other tab of the Configuration window, ensure that the "make dropdown exercise" checkbox is checked. Please send an email with the URL of your...
Hi Henny, ... Good point. But HotPot 6 changes are limited to bug-fixes now. HotPot 7 will have different item types for these exercises. Cheers, Martin...
Hi Henny The "Drop-down" option was added based on user demands. I suppose it might have been more consistent to provide an "Export as DropDown" as you...
So, if I read the feedback right, the keypad insertion at the cursor point works in FF, IE, Safari, and in Opera 9, but not Opera 8? That's promising indeed. ...
... in ... HotPot 7 ... Beste Martin, Ok, I think indeed it's not urgent at all. Just for the new version. I have a few other practical ideas ( that will say...
Hi Henny, This tells you how to add a new button to the navbar: <http://hotpot.uvic.ca/howto/hacking_workshop/task_05.htm> You can also use the Custom User...
This might be a very stupid question, but I just can't find it: I made a Jcross. I INCLUDED A LIST OF CLUES WITH THE EXERCISE. Now, I found an exercise on the...
Beste Martin, I have a workshop here right now and somebody wants to get feedback in the short answer quiz. It seems that that is not possible. He only gets...
Hi there, It's not easier for your students, because they have to scroll up and down all the time. I suspect what you found was an old exercise made with...
Hi there, If the student types the exact answer you supplied, he or she will get the feedback you supplied for that answer. The student must be typing ...