Up until now, we've been forcing a new search whenever reset is called.
The primary reason was that the card list display routines did not expect
a card or note to have been removed. By updating the model to show
"(deleted)" when a card or note is missing, we no longer have to repeat
the search.
This has a few advantages:
- Searches, especially complex ones, can be slow to execute. When we
perform them after every operation like a delete, it can make Anki feel
sluggish.
- The fact that notes have been deleted becomes more obvious - some users
found it easy to miss the "deleted" pop-up in the past.
This change does not just affect deletions, as many other operations
trigger a reset as well. In the past, when using 'set due date' in the
review screen for example, it caused an ugly flicker in the browser screen,
and could be slow when the current search couldn't be quickly redone.
The disadvantage of this approach is that the displayed content may
not reflect the specified search, which has the potential to be confusing.
But if that turns out to be a problem, it could be (partly) alleviated by
displaying a refresh button next to the search bar when the search may
need to be refreshed.
Feedback welcome!
This correct the probably rare bug as follow:
I got a note type with a field whose name is "\".
When I made any change to this note type, even unrelated, I get a message stating that there is an empty field. This is
strange because I can see it to be false. Investigating show that "\" is normalized to empty field. This ensure that
it's shown
This reverts commit a0c47243b6, reversing
changes made to 0ab87b7339.
@RumoVZ this broke a bunch of operations like 'select notes' and
'set due date'. When the triggered signal is connected to a function,
PyQt looks at the function signature to decide what arguments to pass
it. The wrapper was using *args, so PyQt passes in an extra argument,
which the underlying function didn't expect.
I tried settting __signature__ on the wrapper, but PyQT seems to
ignore it, so we may either need to check all of the existing calls
and add the ignored extra arguments, or create a separate wrapper for
such cases.
