Kanji Colorizer: Stroke Order Diagrams [Official Support Thread]

[walterhumko]

The Kanji Colorizer works great for Kanji, but when I add Hiragana or Katakana I get English letters in the Diagram field. I changed the digrammed-charters to all and I still get English letters.

{
“diagrammed-characters”: “all”,
“dst-field”: “Stroke Order Diagram 1”,
“group-mode”: false,
“image-size”: 327,
“mode”: “spectrum”,
“model”: “japanese”,
“overwrite-dest”: true,
“saturation”: 0.95,
“src-field”: “Word (in Kanji/Hanzi)”,
“value”: 0.75
}

Any ideas on how to fix this? I think it related to the fonts. If I try differnt fonts sometimes I can get the Katakana to work, but not every time.

[Nuocmam00]

Hi, Kanji Colorizer not working since few days (for new cards only)
Could you help me with that?

[cayenne]

Hi.

Why did you post the same thing two times in the same day?

I can’t really help without more information.

First, have you checked what it says? Can you post the fields of the model that you are trying to use this with and your config for the addon?

Did anything else change - for example did you update anki?

[cayenne]

Hi

Sorry I missed this earlier. There isn’t currently a setting for what you want (displaying kana but not English letters). It seems like it would be a good feature but I’m not sure when I’ll have time to add it.

If you are still interested, then a workaround in this particular case might be to move the HTML to your template instead of having it in the field.

[Nuocmam00]

Sorry for my two identical posts.

So, I did check what it says but I dont really if it’s correctly set.
What I know is that it was working really well few days ago and now not anymore.
Actually, it’s not working anymore for new cards I create
but still for the old ones. Both have the same fields and are the same note type
I updated Anki recently but I don’t remember if it was one week or one month.

Thank you !

New one

Old one

[cayenne]

And what does your config look like? (Tools → Addons → Kanji Colorizer → Config)

[Nuocmam00]

Thank you.
Macbook pro, mac os 10.14.6
Anki 2.1.54
Addons : japanese support - postpone card review - reset card scheduling
Kanji Colorizer (up to date)

I created a new deck with a new note type, with exactly the same fields.
Kanji colorizer is now working for the new cards I created in that new deck but still not in the other ones.
So i found a solution. Thank you for your help

[randoomdude]

been trying to set source and destination for fields to see if it ever sets the diagram automatically, but nothing seems to work, and the add on config doesn’t even display the code anymore, just the options, so I have no idea if it’s the version that’s messing it up or something else

[Satori]

Hi,
I want to use this with ankidroid, the Diagrams show up but a very tiny and hard to read. Is there a way resize the Diagrams?

[ankiPoke]

I am very new to anki, I don’t quiet understand how to use it efficiently.

I have followed the instructions of downloading the add-on and then enabling it under:
Tools → add-ons

Then performed 'generate all new" under:

Tools → Kanji Colorizer → Generate All new

All my existing decks don’t have colorized stroke order for existing cards.

Either I am doing something wrong or I am not understand the function of this application. I really wish the guide was more detailed closer to eli5.

This is very frustrating that I can’t even begging my first step in learning Kanji, because I don’t know how to use a the said tool.

I appreciate any help!

[cayenne]

ankiPoke: Hi. Yes, that should have put stroke order diagrams into the destination field. The first thing I can think of to check is whether your model, dst-field, and src-field are set correctly in the config.

I agree this addon could be more user friendly. I wrote it 12 years ago when anki was different and I was not a very experienced programmer, and I’ve had varying amounts of time and attention for maintaining it since then. I might or might not have some time to work on that this summer.

Anyone: I am at least going to be able to more reliably respond to contributions than I have. (I just noticed that there were some PRs a couple years ago that I didn’t get to and forgot about; those are on my ToDo list now.) A better guide would be a great way for someone to contribute without needing programming knowledge. It could be a pull request or if you’re not comfortable with Github you could email it to me or post it here.

[cayenne]

I just published an update with two new options from contributors:

• Option to add a grid under the character
• Option to write multiple characters to multiple fields

[jingledrawss]

Hey this plugin is not working for me at all

[cayenne]

In your config, change “model” from “Kanji” to “Core 2000” so that it matches the note type.

[jingledrawss]

that did not work, i figured out how to get rid of the error but it doesn’t show the kanji

[Stampede333]

Hi, your add-on is great, thank you!
Could you add a setting in the config section of the add-on with which we can exclude some symbols (like comma) on the generation of the stroke order diagrams?
I have listed in some kanji more than 1 character separated by a comma, therefore every time I have inadvertently selected that field it generates commas. I can’t deactivate the add-on or set “overwrite-dest” to false since I haven’t finished on modifying cards.
Fortunately the add-on doesn’t read parentheses, which I use often in that field to add different reading(s) of the same kanji (I’m using RTK so the definition of kanji is not always binary).
Thanks

[Stampede333]

It would be really nice if you can also add a setting to put a background color when creating the diagrams. I know that one can go on the styling section of a card to put ‘white’ but it would be great to have this white background already in the field on Browser since with the grey Anki background the kanji stroke orders are difficult to read. Thanks!

[Stampede333]

edit:

edit:
I found a workaround to put white background or other colour combining the “Advanced Copy Fields”, the “Rename Media”, and occasionally the “OpenInExternalEditorRenameDuplicate for ImageAudioVideo WinLinux” add-ons with this code:
<img src=“{{Image Name Field}}.svg” style=“background-color: white”.>
(without the last dot)
I created 2 new fields, for the image name and for the new reference in which I put this code

[cayenne]

Sorry I dropped this. You’ve probably either figured it out or moved on, but I wanted to say this in case it helps other people:

The model name needs to contain the world “Japanese”.

When I wrote the addon, I was modeling it after the behavior of the Japanese plugin. In hindsight this was a terrible choice. If I do any active work on this at some point that’s a thing I should get rid of. And I would accept a pull request that removes that.