If you move more than a certain number of entries from the Available box to the Selected box, you get an error as shown in the attached image.
In my version of JabRef (JabRef 5.3–2021-07-05–50c96a2, Windows 7 6.1 amd64, Java 16.0.1, JavaFX 16+8 ), this bug appears after having moved all entries from the Available box, up to the entry Australian Veterinary Journal ; then, when moving the following entry Australian Journal of Development Studies… the problem illustrated in the attached image appears.
A feature that would be nice in JabRef is a preview of citation styles. That is why I tried to move all Available entries to the Selected box.
A quick guess is that this something has to do with storing with the preferences. The current style is stored in the preferences and it could be that the style is causing problems
I cannot post the error code, other than the one you see in the image, because it cannot be selected with the mouse cursor. Moreover, the show details button does not show any details either (picture attached).
If somebody can make something out of it, then probably rather Christoph.
One additional note though:
Are you sure you want to push ALL the styles to the selected box? Currently the only way known to me that allows you to change the preview style is by going to view and then clicking next preview style (F9) or previous preview style (Shift+F9); So if you push 5000 preview styles to the selected box and you want to try out ALL of them, you would need to press F9 on your keyboard 5000 times … … and when you find one you like, but then press another 300 times more, because you wanted to check out the others, you need to press it 300 times again to go back to the one you liked.
To preview the reference styles once they are in the Selected box, you only need to stay at the Selected box and use the DOWN and UP arrow keys.
As best as I’m informed, there are 500 styles.
Anyhow, I’ve just decided to not use JabRef as there are too many bugs in it.
Once again, thank you very much for your interest.
thanks for your report. I will create a bug report, I could reproduce this issue and I remember that we once had a similar one which was closely related. JabRef tries to store the information (the names) about all selected styles in the Registry, and it seems that if you move over all styles it hits the character limit of the Registry.
I will create a bug report at our issue tracker. I think an easy solution would to be to enable the preview feature as well for the list of available styles.
Anyhow, I’ve just decided to not use JabRef as there are too many bugs in it.
I’m sorry to hear that you have had inconveniences when using JabRef. Every release contains many bug fixes, but please note that all maintainers of JabRef only work in their free time at JabRef (despite many of them having a full-time job.
@dguibord The development version now shows the preview for the avialable styles and also feature a search interface to quickly filter the available styles https://builds.jabref.org/main/
Christoph has identified the cause to lie within an external library, that already has filed a fix for it, but of which the newest version has not been published yet. These error messages in the preview are quite annoying for now (Luckily, I have not experienced any adverse effects of just closing the error message), but this error will likely go away once the new version of the external library is out.
… and when you find one you like, but then press another 300 times more, because you wanted to check out the others, you need to press it 300 times again to go back to the one you liked.