Registry window

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Registries in SuperMemo are sorted sets of objects used such as texts, images, sounds, fonts, etc. By using registries, SuperMemo reduces the overall size of collections, and makes it easy to reuse objects already introduced into the current collection. For more information about registries see: Using registries.

All existing registries can be accessed from the Search menu.

A registry window is used to access individual members of a registry.

Parts of the registry window

SuperMemo: Image registry which you can use to review images used in your collection
  • caption - name of the registry and the total number of registry members. Here the image registry keeps 15047 pictures
  • registry toolbar (below the caption) - tool buttons providing mouse shortcuts to the most often used registry options
  • editing field (under the toolbar) - field used in incremental search, i.e. searching for members by typing in initial characters of their names
  • list of member names (left panel) - alphabetically sorted list of names of individual registry members. Here the list displays images from "citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle, TCA cycle)" to "cobbles". The scrollbar on the right side of the list box shows the approximate position of this subset of images in the alphabetical list
  • object display field (right top panel) - field that is used to display the object that is currently selected in the list of members (on the left side). In some registries this field is empty (e.g. sound registry, program registry, etc.) or is divided into two parts (e.g. text registry displays text translations, lexical registry displays phonetic transcription of individual words, translation registry displays the original texts, etc.). Here the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle, TCA cycle) is presented
  • element list (right bottom panel) - upon clicking List at the bottom of the registry window, the element list is filled out with all elements that use a given registry member.
  • status bar (above the button panel) - information about the currently selected member
  • button panel (at the very bottom)

A right click over the registry window opens the registry menu with advanced operations on the registry.

Status bar

  • registry index (i.e. the ordinal position of the registry member in the registry)
  • number of elements that use the member
  • physical position in the registry
  • number of the filespace slot (if any) - a numbered position of a file in the ELEMENTS subfolder. The first file will get the slot one, second slot two, etc. (e.g. 1.jpg, 2.htm, 3.wav, etc.), and
  • (if relevant) path to the registry member file with the file size In the example above, the picture is alphabetically the 2432nd picture in the registry, it is used by 40 elements, it is physically placed at the position 2270 in the registry, and it uses the filespace slot number 196,353. The actual jpg file is located in the folder c:\colls\All\elements\21\24\15\ and is named 196353.jpg (note that the name is the same as the number of the filespace slot). The size of this file is 121,712 bytes and it was created on Oct 21, 2006 at 17:54:34

Button panel

    • List - list the elements that use the currently selected registry member (the list is displayed in the element list at the bottom of the right side of the window)
    • Go to - go to the first element using the currently selected registry member
    • Browse - display all elements that use the currently selected registry member in an element browser. Note that the Browse button on the toolbar can be used to display all elements that use all registry members belonging to the current subset
    • Accept - link the currently selected registry member with the requesting source (e.g. if you choose Links : Registry member on the sound component menu, the component will be linked with a sound object associated with the sound registry member selected at the moment of pressing Accept)
    • Add - add a new registry member to the registry
    • Rename (Alt+R) - change the name of the currently selected registry member
    • Insert - create a new component with a link to the currently selected member. SuperMemo will ask you if the component should be created in the current element displayed in the element window or if a new element should be created


Exemplary registry windows

Concept registry window

A picture below shows an exemplary category registry. Category registry and tasklist registry make it possible to set up some of the tasklist or category parameters:

Translation registry window

A picture below shows an exemplary translation registry.

SuperMemo: Translation registry stores translation texts that correspond with the text registry in the currently selected translation language