weft qda users - Aug 2007 - [Weft QDA users] Weft on Ubuntu -- Ctrl-shortcuts NOT working?

Hi -- have just followed Christophe''s notes to get
Weft QDA up and running on my IBM Thinkpad T20
w/Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).

Am just going thru the manual and trying various
things, as I''m new to qualitative analysis AND new to
QDA tools.

Anyway, one thing I''ve found is that many (and maybe
ALL?) of the CTRL-shortcuts mentioned in the
documentation are not working for me.  In particular,
I think I''m probably going to be wanting Ctrl-M for
marking text, and Ctrl-A to select all of the text in
a document.  Is this just a problem with my
configuration or something I''ve done wrong, or is this
normal for the Linux version?

Also, as regards marking text - the doc mentions that
this will cause the text to be highlighted in some
way in the Windows version -- is this a great
advantage?  Or disadvantage for the Linux version? 
Not having used this type of software before, I''d
assume that I''d WANT to see this type of highlighting,
but maybe not.  Any comments?

If the CTRL-stuff and the highlighting work better
running under WINE, what''s the procedure for getting
that to work?  I''m a relative Linux newbie, so please
be gentle... =o)

Thanks!

-paul


     
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Dear Paul,

I''m having the same problem (and CTRL+A is a big problem!), and had  
this with Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04.

Unfotunately under wine the problem remains, and I still don''t know
why.

Alex, there is any news connected to version 2.0?Can we download a  
beta version and test it?In my understanding release 2.0 will change a  
lot and maybe some issue we are having can be solved.

Thanks

Maurizio

Citando Paul and/or Minna Brown <paulminnabrown at yahoo.com>:
> Hi -- have just followed Christophe''s notes to get
> Weft QDA up and running on my IBM Thinkpad T20
> w/Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).
>
> Am just going thru the manual and trying various
> things, as I''m new to qualitative analysis AND new to
> QDA tools.
>
> Anyway, one thing I''ve found is that many (and maybe
> ALL?) of the CTRL-shortcuts mentioned in the
> documentation are not working for me.  In particular,
> I think I''m probably going to be wanting Ctrl-M for
> marking text, and Ctrl-A to select all of the text in
> a document.  Is this just a problem with my
> configuration or something I''ve done wrong, or is this
> normal for the Linux version?
>
> Also, as regards marking text - the doc mentions that
> this will cause the text to be highlighted in some
> way in the Windows version -- is this a great
> advantage?  Or disadvantage for the Linux version?
> Not having used this type of software before, I''d
> assume that I''d WANT to see this type of highlighting,
> but maybe not.  Any comments?
>
> If the CTRL-stuff and the highlighting work better
> running under WINE, what''s the procedure for getting
> that to work?  I''m a relative Linux newbie, so please
> be gentle... =o)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -paul
>
>
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Hi Paul, Maurizio

maurizio.teli at soc.unitn.it wrote:
> I''m having the same problem (and CTRL+A is a big problem!), and
had
> this with Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, 7.04.
>   
I don''t have a Weft 1 Linux installation to try this out. The fact that
CTRL-a doesn''t work is particularly strange as this is an operating 
system standard shortcut, like CTRL-v or CTRL-c.
> Citando Paul and/or Minna Brown <paulminnabrown at yahoo.com>:
>
> Also, as regards marking text - the doc mentions that
> this will cause the text to be highlighted in some
> way in the Windows version -- is this a great
> advantage?  Or disadvantage for the Linux version?
> Not having used this type of software before, I''d
> assume that I''d WANT to see this type of highlighting,
> but maybe not. 
>   
Yes, it''s generally helpful to have text highlighting; as well as
giving
you some feedback as coding is done, it''s a quick way of seeing what 
coding''s been already applied when you return to a project, and where 
categories overlap.

Unfortunately it''s a bug in a piece of software that Weft 1 relies on 
that stops this working on Linux.
> Alex, there is any news connected to version 2.0?Can we download a  
> beta version and test it?In my understanding release 2.0 will change a  
> lot and maybe some issue we are having can be solved.
>   
Well, the good news is, I tried out both highlighting and shortcut keys 
on current Ubuntu on version 2.0 and they work fine.

The less good news is that version 2.0''s is still some way from usable,
even as a beta. I have been working on it but in a piecemeal way as 
almost all my own research over the last year has been quantitative. 
However I''m just about to start a more qualitatively-oriented project 
which I hope will give me some time and motivation to move it forward.

best wishes
alex