I have had difficulties selecting a book from the search result by title. The add key only worked when pressed twice
or three times. This resulted in the addition of the book in duplicate. Deletion of one deleted both (despite the fact
that I removed the ISBN and changed the editor on one of them).

Because of the amount of books I need to enter I have created several libraries by authors (A to D, E to H, etc.). When
changing libraries I found that one book, entered and deleted several times, was duplicated (X7).

The problem was solved by closing the programme and re-opening it. 

Incidally the impossibility to "find" with the ISBN which only allows "add" implies the deletion
of many books, the cover of which do not fit.

Date: 2009-04-28 11:12
Sender: Dany Amate

I am using Gnome 2.22.3 - Ubuntu 8.04. Could this explain
the problem?

Date: 2009-04-27 21:53
Sender: Cathal Mc Ginley

1) I can't reproduce the first problem, it might be an issue
with Ruby-GNOME2 (or the way Alexandria interacts with it).

You could try one of these two things:
 a) Click the middle of the "title bar" of the dialog
(where it says "Adding a Book" or "Ajout d'un
livre") just before you click the "Add" button.
Do this each time. This sometimes solves odd little Ruby-GNOME2
bugs.
 b) Instead of clicking "Add", first click and then
double-click the book you want to add from the list.

I believe you are using a recent Ubuntu which has version 0.17.0
of Ruby-GNOME2 (I am testing with 0.18.1) You can try upgrading,
but it may be RISKY
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Install+Guide+for+Ubun
tu

2) I have seen the second problem myself occasionally, or something
like it. It's hard to track down though. What is needed is the
shortest possible number of steps to reproduce the problem; then
I can begin to figure out what's happening.

3) I think you are referring again to getting multiple results
for an ISBN lookup. This was not foreseen when Alexandria was
designed, so the program simply selects the first result. However,
even with the same ISBN, the same edition of a book can have
a different cover due to being a different "printing"
of that edition. At the moment, there is no way for Alexandria
to handle this issue.

If you'd like to improve the future design of Alexandria, please
join the alexandria-list and e-mail us some of your ideas.
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-list