Sorry, all. I'd left an alert() in there, had the dictionaries in the wrong
order, and didn't know that there was formatting whitespace hidden in the
XML response. Here's a second cut of the file that takes those points into
account.
--David
search function=df
nameDictService 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=helpboxDescLabelsSwitches:/div
div class=helpboxDescLabelsExamples:/div
table class=helpboxDescTable
trtddf idempotent/td/tr
trtdidempotent:/td/tr
/table
/description
categoryReferencecategoryLanguage/category/category
linkhttp://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 = [gcide,foldoc];
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 = 440;
if ( definitions.length 0 ) {
var html = ;
for( var i=0; i definitions.length; i++ ) {
html += 'pb' + q + '/b/p';
var body = definitions[i].text.replace( /[\r\n]/gi, br / );
body = body.replace( / /gi, nbsp; );
html += 'p' + body + '/p';
}
}
else
{
var html = 'centerb' + q + '/b not found/centerbr/';
}
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/cssimg { border-width: 0 } .variant { font-weight: bold; } .verb_class { display: block; } .unicode{font-family:Lucida Sans Unicode;}/styletrtd 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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