Re: [DQSD-Users] New search: df for word definitions
I was surprised today when this dictionary had no definition for coruscating which shows in other dictionaries, e.g. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/coruscating David Blume david.bl...@gm... wrote: 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=stringstrategy=... 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. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] New search: df for word definitions
Thanks for this search David. I missed the popup dictionary which I used to use before and installed this today, finally, it had been on my todo list since you released it. Fantastic! It works great. For anyone wishing to work on it as David suggests, here are some observations: When I first ran it I did it with the colon first which hung up dqsd for me. Normally when this happens I restart explorer by killing the process and reopening explorer but this killed me completely this time for some reason and I had to restart. Doing a lookup with an incorrect spelling causes a popup error: http://i28.tinypic.com/10cq7ux.jpg Cheers, Tom. David Blume david.bl...@gmail.com wrote: 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=stringstrategy=... 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. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
Re: [DQSD-Users] New search: df for word definitions
My mistake on the alert, I used the wrong version. Sorry. Thanks again David for a great search. I'll be using it a lot. Tom. tom.corco...@moonbade.com wrote: Thanks for this search David. I missed the popup dictionary which I used to use before and installed this today, finally, it had been on my todo list since you released it. Fantastic! It works great. For anyone wishing to work on it as David suggests, here are some observations: When I first ran it I did it with the colon first which hung up dqsd for me. Normally when this happens I restart explorer by killing the process and reopening explorer but this killed me completely this time for some reason and I had to restart. Doing a lookup with an incorrect spelling causes a popup error: http://i28.tinypic.com/10cq7ux.jpg Cheers, Tom. David Blume david.bl...@gmail.com wrote: 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=stringstrategy=... 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. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry ___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601 -- Cheers, Tom. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry___ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users DQSD-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601
