Can’t write more than a few words

[Anders Kaseorg]

Binary package hint: dasher

If I start dasher 4.6.0 and start “zooming” to the right, I can’t write more than a few words before it stops and refuses to zoom farther. This worked in 4.5.2.

[Shaun Crampton (fasaxc)]

I can confirm this bug.

[Mirsal Ennaime (mirsal-ennaime)]

I'm confirming this bug too.

[M Hickford (hickford)]

I can confirm this too.

Dasher worked consistently in feisty. Upgraded to gutsy yesterday, and now dasher is crippled.

Zooming is impossible beyond a short distance, so you can't get write more than a few words.

[Rory McCann (rorymcc)]

I can confirm this problem.

I'm attaching a screencast of me using dasher that shows this bug. I'm trying to enter "This is a test of dasher". It gets stuck just after "of". From my memory I don't think it get stuck after the same number of characters. However it's usually after a few words.

[Rory McCann (rorymcc)]

I have downloaded the 4.6.0 version of dasher from the dasher website and it shows this bug, ie this is not caused by anything ubuntu has done. The version in the ubuntu repositories is 4.6.0.

The latest stable release is 4.6.2. I downloaded and compiled that source from the dasher website and it does not have this bug. I tested 4.2.1, it also does not show this bug.

This problem is only in v4.2.0

[Lorenzo J. Lucchini (ljl)]

After inputting "The quick brown fox", the program consistently stops scrolling towards new letters. Erasing text is still possible.

[Bart Cramer (bart-cramer)]

Same problem here.

It also crashes when I try to open a different dictionary.

[Phil (philipp-rollinger)]

I confirm all the comments!

Could this be a configuration problem of dasher? All that the app not does, is catching the written words from left-hand side of the screen. In the videos dasher does this...
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416&q=dasher&total=370&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

[Phil (philipp-rollinger)]

That was my way:
Deinstall with Synaptic dasher-data and dasher 4.6.0;
Download dasher 4.4.1 (dasher-data & dasher) from: rpmseek.com
Install with GDebi first dasher-data then dasher...
works... it catch the words right away!
Language switching result still in a program crash.

Have fun!

[Shaun Crampton (fasaxc)]

This appears to be fixed in Hardy Final. Thanks.