Hi,
Does anybody have any experience using the Pop-up dictionary with Hot Potatoes exercises in Moodle? If so, could you let me know? We have tried to use them simultaneously without success.
Thank you for your help.

Susanna, the HotPot module should work with the dictionary plugin now, so please upgrade your HotPot module and try again. Gordon

Patrick and Nicolas,
thanks for all your hard work on the Dictionary block for Moodle.

FYI, there is currently a typo on line 172 of the "block_dictionary.php" file:
https://github.com/oohoo/moodle-block_dictionary/blob/master/block_dictionary.php

The capability appears as "moodle/course:manageactivitiesmoodle/course:manageactivities" when it should be simply "moodle/course:manageactivities".

With the correct capability, the block installs without a problem.

Thank you Gordon will make the changes

Great, it's fixed now - merci beaucoup!

Hi,
The dictionary is a very useful tool for use with Hot Potatoes. I cannot, however, scroll the pop-up window in Firefox or resize and scroll in IE. Only Chrome will do both. Is this something I can fix myself by changing some settings?

Hi,
I cannot select a dictonary ...
I installed version Release 1.2.0 (Build: 2014040200) of oohoo - Pop up Dictionary - Block and Release 1.2.0 (Build: 2014040200) of oohoo - Popup Dictionary - Filter
My installation is Moodle 2.6.1+
Installation and Configuration went fine, I added a block to a course BUT then:
Selected dictionary:
No dictionary selected
I click on 'Add a dictonary' -> blank page with error message, apache error log: Permission denied: access to /blocks/dictionary/add.php failed because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

No permissions? I'm admin. I enroled myself into the course as teacher and found the permissions block/dictionary:addinstance and block/dictionary:myaddinstance and set it to true.

The error is still there

in the documentation it says that there should apear a link 'change dictonary' but I don't have this link ....

Found the reason! I forgot to check the permission settings for the folders, they were set to 700 ...
Wie blöd!

Cannot change dictionaries without purging all cache in the admin utility

//if (!$blockobj->_self_test()) {
// throw new plugin_defective_exception($component, 'Self test failed.');
//}

This block needs a self-test method to make moodle 2.8 happy FYI.

As Luke says, there is a problem. Every time I tried to upgrade to version 2.8, I get

Default exception handler: Plugin "block_dictionary" is defective or outdated, can not continue, sorry. Debug: Self test failed.
Error code: detectedbrokenplugin
* line 824 of /lib/upgradelib.php: plugin_defective_exception thrown
* line 422 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
* line 1626 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
* line 171 of /admin/cli/upgrade.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

!!! Plugin "block_dictionary" is defective or outdated, can not continue, sorry. !!!
!! Self test failed.
Error code: detectedbrokenplugin !!
!! Stack trace: * line 824 of /lib/upgradelib.php: plugin_defective_exception thrown
* line 422 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
* line 1626 of /lib/upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
* line 171 of /admin/cli/upgrade.php: call to upgrade_noncore()
!!

I get the outdated message block/dictionary on 2.7 also:
Debug info: Missing version.php file.
Error code: detectedbrokenplugin
Stack trace:
line 769 of \lib\upgradelib.php: plugin_defective_exception thrown
line 422 of \lib\upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins_blocks()
line 1615 of \lib\upgradelib.php: call to upgrade_plugins()
line 434 of \admin\index.php: call to upgrade_noncore()

It's a great plugin

Great plugin. When are you providing for 2.9 ? Works for 2.8, am upgrading to 2.9.

Tried the plugin on Moodle 3.4. Didn't work, so I tried to uninstall it, and now my website does not work anymore.

Table "block_dictionary" does not exist

Debug info:
Error code: ddltablenotexist
Stack trace:
line 665 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: dml_exception thrown
line 1521 of /lib/dml/moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->where_clause()
line 34 of /filter/dictionary/filter.php: call to moodle_database->get_record()
line 176 of /lib/filterlib.php: call to filter_dictionary->filter()
line 218 of /lib/filterlib.php: call to filter_manager->apply_filter_chain()
line 1275 of /lib/weblib.php: call to filter_manager->filter_text()
line 985 of /lib/externallib.php: call to format_text()
line 161 of /lib/classes/external/exporter.php: call to external_format_text()
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