I've released a new version of Zyzzyva, 0.14.1. This release is for bug fixes only. There are no new features (not even small ones, sorry!). The main bug...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jun 6, 2006 2:56 am
... Oh yeah. And um, here's a link where you can get it. :-) http://zyzzyva.net/ -- Michael W Thelen Luck favors the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur...
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Mary Rhoades
mrhoades76021
Jun 6, 2006 10:54 am
What does this mean? * Disallow long input in the Word Judge...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jun 6, 2006 2:48 pm
... That means you can't enter words longer than 15 letters in the Word Judge, and you can't enter more than 8 words at a time. John Chew said that his son (2...
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Mary Rhoades
mrhoades76021
Jun 6, 2006 3:54 pm
How funny! That's kinda what I thought it meant, but I wanted to be sure. Mary...
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Matthew Hopkins
ouguiya
Jun 6, 2006 4:46 pm
Michael, Can you send the link to the download location? Matt Hopkins PS This is an excellent tool. Thanks for your laudable effort and for sharing it with the...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jun 6, 2006 4:57 pm
... Yep, I'm sorry I forgot it in the original message. You can get the latest version from http://zyzzyva.net/ - specifically, here are direct links to the...
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Mary Rhoades
mrhoades76021
Jun 6, 2006 6:40 pm
Is this latest version one I have not tested? Mary...
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Steve Hartsman
word_freak40
Jun 9, 2006 2:00 pm
With 0.14.1 on my XP laptop, I decided to answer "yes" when prompted to create a database. Previously, as suggested by Michael, I had moved the .db to the...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jun 9, 2006 4:53 pm
... No, but I'm not sure what's causing it, either. Er, to clarify... obviously it's taking that long to connect to the database on certain computers, but I...
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Tom
aragorn_the_red
Jun 9, 2006 6:28 pm
Hey Mike, I don't know if this one has already been suggested, or whether I'd even use it terribly much, but how hard would it be to add a "Search definition"...
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Richard Johnson
iamoffbyone
Jun 11, 2006 11:40 pm
30 seconds to a minute? I loaded 0.14.1 to use in the Fort Worth Tournament this weekend. I never saw a message to create a database. After the initial...
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Mary Rhoades
mrhoades76021
Jun 12, 2006 12:07 am
Richard is right about his slow load time. I babysat it while he hurried to his opponent who was waiting for him. My laptop loaded ZYZZYVA quite quickly. Judy...
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Tom
aragorn_the_red
Jun 16, 2006 4:32 pm
Mike, is there a particular reason you're not allowed to select/copy text from the search results screen? While you're in the business of allowing us to sort...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jun 16, 2006 4:42 pm
... That's a good thought... I don't know why it shouldn't be possible to cut and paste from the results, so that's going on my to-do list. Thanks! -- Michael...
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Paul Cole
jauntyscarfboy
Jun 18, 2006 5:06 pm
Is there a way that you can warn the user that he/she is about to overwrite an existing file when saving a quiz or word list in Zyzzyva? Thanks, Paul Cole...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jun 19, 2006 12:32 am
... It should be doing this already. The only time it won't prompt you is when you're taking a quiz that has already been saved to a file... then the Save...
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Paul Cole
jauntyscarfboy
Jun 19, 2006 2:58 am
Michael, I was able to recreate my situation from scratch. Here is what happened. First I am running 0.14.0 on OS 10.4.6. First I opened Zyzzyva and started...
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Kevin J Turner
scrabblephreak
Jul 6, 2006 10:07 am
I was wondering what the difference is between the Quiz Search Specifications, "Probability Order" and "Limit By Probability Order"...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jul 6, 2006 8:31 pm
... Here's an explanation from the help documentation... look for the "Probability Order" and "Limit by Probability Order" sections. ...
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Nick Ball
nicholasmart...
Jul 13, 2006 11:18 pm
Hi everyone, Has anyone made a sowpods (or Collins) file for zyzzyva with definitions? If not, I can interleave owl-lwl.txt with sowpods.txt easily enough, but...
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John O'Laughlin
johnaolaughlin
Jul 13, 2006 11:50 pm
I can do something for this eventually, but I'm waiting for the smoke to clear re: Collins/Chambers. Some of the Australian players had a program on their PDAs...
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yggnoramus
Jul 17, 2006 1:43 am
I'm trying to install Zyzzyva 0.14.1 on a secondhand laptop running SuSE Linux 8.2 and KDE 3.1. I compiled Qt 4.1.4 with no error messages, and I used `qmake'...
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John O'Laughlin
johnaolaughlin
Jul 17, 2006 3:11 am
... I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but it'll work if each time you compile Zyzzyva you do this in your bin directory: sudo cp libzyzzyva.so.0.14.1...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jul 17, 2006 4:43 pm
... Yep, the problem is that Zyzzyva consists of an executable and a shared library, and the system doesn't know where to find the shared library. One of...
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Anand Buddhdev
arbuddhdev
Jul 22, 2006 1:01 pm
... Hi Michael, I was also using this trick briefly, but then I looked through the source code again, and noticed that you have a target called "staticlib" in...
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Anand Buddhdev
arbuddhdev
Jul 23, 2006 12:24 pm
Hi Michael, I've been looking at the possibility of creating an RPM of zyzzyva. One of the issues that came up is the location of the "data" directory, which...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Jul 25, 2006 5:14 pm
... Yep, that's right... it works that way so that after installed on Windows or Mac OS X, or built in-place on Linux, the data directory can be found. But...
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ouguiya
Aug 6, 2006 6:18 am
Mike program has starred with exceptional fuctionality on this largest of Scabble tournament stages. Kudos, acolades and plaudits to Mike T for his yeoman's...
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Michael Thelen
thelenm
Aug 10, 2006 5:11 pm
... Aw, shucks. :-) Thanks! It was an honor to have Zyzzyva chosen for the USSO, and I'm glad it worked so well. -- Michael W Thelen Luck favors the prepared...
