created nodes not opening

[kaarlsberg]

so i was formatting a document, on cherry tree, suddenly it sort of hanged, and i am freezed on the note i was currently in.

There was number of subnodes and nodes in the document, with plenty of text in it, but clicking on them does nothing.

Help!!, dont wanna loose my document

in the above screen shot, i am clicking on the node which is highlighted, but the text in it, does show up, i am freezed up in node just above that.

Edit: i can still edit the current node i am in, and can toggle subnodes of all nodes i created, just can't see or edit what is written in them

[txe]

What cherrytree version and OS do you use?
Can you start cherrytree in the console and see if it will show any errors there?
Edit: as I understand, you're afraid to lose data if you close the app. Then, you can try to use option save as to resave data.

[datavectors]

Another tip I have used when a CT file is corrupted.
First install XMLCopyEditor
Save CT file as XML (*.ctd)
Try to validate CT file in XMLCopyEditor (or another XML editor if you have one).

[kaarlsberg]

Hello @txe i did as you mentioned and saved a different copy of it using save as, then went ahead and reinstalled cherry tree again,it works now. thanks.
There was no problem with the file, i guess something went with the application itself.

@datavectors thankyou for your help

[txe]

Good!

[kaarlsberg]

@txe Hii, i would request to open this issue again.
I am having same problem again.

I am using Ubuntu Linux 20.04, cherry tree version is 0.39.3
Last time as you asked, i tried opening cherry tree from terminal , the program opens with the same issue, but here is the error i get

$ cherrytree
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/anurag/snap/cherrytree/14/.config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini': File exists
Gtk-Message: 22:09:39.440: Failed to load module "gail"
Gtk-Message: 22:09:39.440: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
Gtk-Message: 22:09:39.453: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
sel node id=89, seq=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/snap/cherrytree/14/share/cherrytree/modules/core.py", line 3150, in on_node_changed
    if self.enable_spell_check: self.spell_check_set_on()
  File "/snap/cherrytree/14/share/cherrytree/modules/core.py", line 4823, in spell_check_set_on
    self.spellchecker = pgsc_spellcheck.SpellChecker(self.sourceview, self, self.syntax_highlighting == cons.RICH_TEXT_ID, self.spell_check_lang)
  File "/snap/cherrytree/14/share/cherrytree/modules/pgsc_spellcheck.py", line 167, in __init__
    raise NoDictionariesFound()
pgsc_spellcheck.NoDictionariesFound

Help Please

[txe]

Ok, I see why it happens and I will investigate it further later.
As for now, you can just turn off spellchecker in Preferences dialog, Rich Text tab.

[kaarlsberg]

Well the thing is, all the tabs in the preferences dialog can be browsed, except the Rich text tab.
Clicking on it, just gives a blank.

[txe]

Ok, then try to install a spellcheck dictionary for hunspell, e.g. hunspell-en_US or hunspell-en-us

[txe]

Or instead of deleting config.cfg, change a line there
enable_spell_check = True to enable_spell_check = False

[kaarlsberg]

sorry, i dont want to be annoying and bother you, more than it needs to be, but
hunspell-en-US latest version is already installed on the system.

Also checked config.cfg enable_spell_check = False is already set.

i guess i will go ahead and reinstall cherrytree again

[giuspen]

If you are having so many issues with the snap package you may want to try the flatpak instead https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.giuspen.cherrytree

[txe]

@kaarlsberg, you are not bothering me, I just tried to give a fast workaround.
I'll give a proper fix tomorrow after installing ubuntu 20.

[kaarlsberg]

@txe ahh, thanks

[txe]

Hi @hellsworth, is it possible to put hunspell-en-us package (spellcheck dictionary) into the snap or remove pygtkspellcheck from the snap? Reasons:

• cherrytree (currently, it can be fixed) works badly without spellcheck dictionaries
• cherrytree snap doesn't see system spellcheck dictionaries
• if there is not pygtkspellcheck, cherrytree will be OK without dictionaries

[txe]

I'm not sure about the package name, it can be pyenchant or something like that

[hellsworth]

@txe Sure that seems fine. However, when I removed python-enchant and added hunspell-en-us, the Preferences -> Rich Text -> Enable Spell Check box was greyed out. Just in case maybe it was auto turned on in the background or something, I misspelled a word and there was no indication. Thoughts?

At least with python-enchant, I could click the "Enable Spell Check" box (although a misspelled word was still not highlighted in any way).

[txe]

It was either put in or remove from )). So, to have spellchecking, you need both python-enchant and a dictionary.
About not highlighted, did you select a language in a combobox next to 'Enable Spell Check' box?

[hellsworth]

Ok I've built with both python-enchant and hunspell-en-us and the 'Enable Spell Check' box is available but the 'Spell Check Language' box is still greyed out so I can't select a language. Thoughts?

[giuspen]

The enable spell check is available if the python-enchant binding is found while the drop down is populated by python-enchant itself according to the dictionaries it finds installed. I'll check if I find something more about the dictionaries expected location

[giuspen]

Looking at my notes for the windows standalone archive https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree/blob/master/windows/README.txt :
sudo apt-get install hunspell-de-de hunspell-fr hunspell-ru
sudo apt-get install myspell-cs myspell-es myspell-hy myspell-it myspell-lt myspell-nl myspell-pl myspell-pt-br myspell-uk
cd /usr/share/hunspell
ls
Maybe there's a way to configure enchant to look in other directories as well.

[hellsworth]

Interesting. Well, we have the installed dictionaries in $SNAP/usr/share/hunspell within the snap so really it's a question of pointing to a non-standard location.

heather@fairy:/snap/cherrytree/x1$ ls -l usr/share/hunspell/
total 537
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3090 Oct 20  2017 en_US.aff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 546103 Oct 20  2017 en_US.dic

I went ahead and filed a query with the pyenchant devs since it's not obvious how to point python-enchant to a non-standard location.

[giuspen]

I found this:
https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-enchant/
Enchant looks for Myspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/myspell and ~/.enchant/myspell. Enchant looks for Ispell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/ispell and ~/.enchant/ispell. Enchant looks for Uspell dictionaries in $(datadir)/enchant/uspell and ~/.enchant/uspell.

[giuspen]

@hellsworth today I was using the snap of cherrytree and while I had xterm installed, cherrytree was unable to invoke it via a system call complaining it couldn't find it on its path. Would it be possible from the snap to look for binaries outside or if not that you include xterm in the snap?

[txe]

@hellsworth
About aspell, other snaps have the same issue with spell checking and for example how they deal with it:
https://github.com/vslavik/poedit/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml

[hellsworth]

@hellsworth today I was using the snap of cherrytree and while I had xterm installed, cherrytree was unable to invoke it via a system call complaining it couldn't find it on its path. Would it be possible from the snap to look for binaries outside or if not that you include xterm in the snap?

Oh yeah snaps can only see what's in their confined space.. I can include xterm in the staged-packages (runtime deps).

[hellsworth]

@hellsworth
About aspell, other snaps have the same issue with spell checking and for example how they deal with it:
https://github.com/vslavik/poedit/blob/master/snap/snapcraft.yaml

Oh nice find @txe ! I'll give something like this a shot tomorrow

[hlascelles]

Thanks for looking at this - I am seeing the same with all of the above.

Could I just ask though - where is the config.cfg when installed as a Snap? I couldn't "unset" spellcheck or find the config file. A simple reinstall solved it, but it will be nice to know in the future. Thanks!

[txe]

Try menu Help -> Open Preferences Directory

[txe]

There is a new issue related to dictionary in snaps, so I'll close this one