David Blume
Fri, 01 May 2009 20:35:06 -0700
My favorite feature of dqsd is the mwd popup feature when mapped to the postfix operator :. It's small, handy and unobtrusive. It's important to me that a simple definition lookup doesn't switch context from what I want to be doing, that it not bring up a browser window. I've mentioned it before here: http://dblume.livejournal.com/65402.html That feature is broken yet again, and not worth fixing anymore. MWD's changed the format of their page so much I've given up trying to make mwd work anymore. They'll just break it again. So here's a replacement search. It's called "df", short for definition. Here's how I use it. I add: :|df to localaliases.txt, and now when I need the definition of a word, I type the word with a colon, and the definition pops up in a little window in the corner. Please note: I don't know any JavaScript, XML, CSS, HTML or web servicey stuff. I only did this because it was too useful a feature not to have. Nothing would delight me more than somebody who knows what they're doing taking it over and cleaning it up. Enjoy, --David PS. If anybody does look at the code, you'll see that I only look for definitions in at most two dictionaries. My selection was based on experimentation and is quite arbitrary. I wrote the search for me, after all. But it'd be great to make that customizable, or when a word is misspelled, to attempt a Match from http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx/Match?word=string&strategy=... with a strategy from http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx/StrategyList. That'd be nice. PPS. There are probably glaring problems with the submitted file. I apologize in advance. It was only tested on my Windows Vista machine with launchmode=1, and my default browser is Firefox. Please, go ahead and fix it so it works for you, too.
<search function="df">
<name>DictService from Aonaware</name>
<description>
Search for word definitions. Recommended it is used with ":|df" in localaliases.txt, so that "word:" brings up its definition.
<div class="helpboxDescLabels">Switches:</div>
<div class="helpboxDescLabels">Examples:</div>
<table class="helpboxDescTable">
<tr><td>df idempotent</td></tr>
<tr><td>idempotent:</td></tr>
</table>
</description>
<category>Reference<category>Language</category></category>
<link>http://www.aonaware.com/services.htm</link>
<form name="dff"
action="http://services.aonaware.com";
method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="book" value="Dictionary"/>
<input type="hidden" name="va"/>
</form>
<script>
<![CDATA[
function df(q)
{
var dicts = ["foldoc","gcide"];
var definitions;
try
{
var xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XmlHttp");
for( var d in dicts ) {
xmlHttp.open("GET", "http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx/DefineInDict?dictId="; + dicts[d] + "&word=" + q, false);
xmlHttp.send();
var xmlDoc = xmlHttp.responseXML.documentElement;
definitions = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("WordDefinition")
if( definitions.length > 0 )
break;
}
}
catch ( e )
{
alert( "Exception thrown: " + e.description );
return;
}
var windowW = 500;
if ( definitions.length > 0 ) {
var html = '<p><b>' + q + '</b></p>';
for( var i=0; i < definitions.length; i++ ) {
html += '<p>' + definitions[i].text + '</p>';
}
}
else
{
var html = '<center><b>' + q + '</b> not found</center><br/>';
alert( html );
}
if ( typeof dictPopup == 'undefined' )
dictPopup = window.createPopup();
var dictPopupBody = dictPopup.document.body;
// Let's concat on a local variable first for easier debugging - let's also copy over a couple of styles from linked "entry.css"
var dictPopupBodyInnerHTML = '<table id=dfTable style="font-size: 70%; border: inset 2px" height="100%" width="100%"><style type="text/css">img { border-width: 0 } .variant { font-weight: bold; } .verb_class { display: block; } .unicode{font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";}</style><tr><td style="padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px">' + html + "</td></tr></table>";
// This assignment will reformat the HTML extensively
dictPopupBody.innerHTML = dictPopupBodyInnerHTML;
dictPopup.document.body.style.border="outset 2px";
dictPopup.document.body.style.padding="1px 1px; background: navy";
dictPopup.document.body.style.background='menu';
dictPopup.document.body.style.overflowY='auto';
dictPopup.document.body.style.fontFamily='Verdana';
dictPopup.document.body.attachEvent('onmouseup',dfCopySelection);
// Temporarily show the popup to determine the proper final height for the popup.
dictPopup.show(0, 0, windowW, 0);
var windowH = dictPopupBody.scrollHeight + 6;
dictPopup.hide();
dictPopup.document.all.dfTable.style.width = windowW - 5;
windowH = windowH > window.screen.height/2 ? window.screen.height/2 : windowH;
dictPopup_x = (buttonalign == "left" ? 0 : document.body.clientWidth - windowW);
dictPopup_y = -windowH;
dictPopup_width = windowW;
dictPopup_height = windowH;
if ( typeof dictPopup_ring == 'undefined' )
dictPopup_ring = new Array();
dictPopup_ring.push( { x:dictPopup_x, y:dictPopup_y, width:dictPopup_width, height:dictPopup_height, html:dictPopupBody.innerHTML } );
dictPopup_sp = dictPopup_ring.length - 1;
dictPopup.show(dictPopup_x, dictPopup_y, dictPopup_width, dictPopup_height, document.body);
}
function dfCopySelection()
{
dictPopup.document.execCommand( "Copy" );
dictPopup.document.selection.empty();
}
function dfGoToWord(w)
{
if ( dictPopup.document.selection.type == "Text" )
{
dfCopySelection();
}
else
{
df(w);
}
}
]]></script>
<copyright>
Copyright (c) 2009 David Blume
Distributed under the terms of the
GNU Public License, Version 2 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt)
</copyright>
</search>
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