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krassowski / Anki-Night-Mode

Enabling studying at night with Anki - without eye strain

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Freeze in night mode

nueij opened this issue · comments

commented

Problem description

Hello,

When I open Anki, it starts in night mode and freezes when I try to change out of night mode. It also freezes when I try to open preferences. The problem goes away when I uninstall the night mode add-on and doesn't go away when I reinstalled.

I can't think of any precipitating factors for this issue; I closed my laptop (in sleep) when it was working fine and opened it up again to have this issue.

Please help thank you!

Checklist

Please put x inside brackets if following sentences apply to you:

  • I verified that I use the lastest add-on version,
  • I verified that I use the lastest Anki version
  • I tried to disable other add-ons to find the culprit,
  • I checked if anyone reported this problem before, as well as Known issues section on add-ons page,
  • My issue is solved when holding shift while starting Anki.

Information about your Anki Setup

Please open Anki, go to Help → About, look-up two lines, starting with Version: and Qt and copy-paste them below:

Version 2.0.52
Qt 4.8.4 PyQt 4.10

Please got to Night Mode → About now and copy-paste the first line from the pop-up window below:

Can't find this information; in the night mode options I only have edit and delete
Night Mode x.x.x

Please fill in your OS details (Linux/Mac/Windows):

OS: Windows 10 Pro

If you have a compatibility problem with a specific add-on or add-ons, please paste the add-on page links below:

Backtrace (if any)

If you had an error which resulted in producing exception with a backtrace, please paste the backtrace below:

[paste your backtrace in here if you got any; otherwise feel free to remove this part]
commented

Thank you for the report. I understand the nuisance; It seems that you use an old Anki version. There is a newer Anki version 2.1 for which this add-on was completely rewritten and includes many more functionalities.

Unfortunately, I cannot support the old Anki version as it is based on Qt 4 which has a lot of issues, some of which may cause crashes. I would not feel safe using Qt4 any longer - it does not even receive security patches. It was originally released 15 years ago and the last release was in 2011 - 8 years ago (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_version_history). The new version uses Qt5 which is more up to today's stability standards (unless you use Mac, there are known problems with Mac, reagrless of Qt version).

commented

Please feel free to re-open if you experience such an issue in the new version (which is unlikely, but possible).