Hi Günther,
Thanks for contributing with this neat application :-)
As a side note, I know Rob Burns has written translation dictionary
applications. You may want to take a look at them :
<http://www.eskimo.com/~pburns/Dictionaries/>
Le 27 mars 06 à 10:27, Günther Noack a écrit :
Am 27.03.2006 um 09:12 schrieb Yen-Ju Chen:
It looks good.
But if it is possible, it would be nice
that it can read the dict database directly from local files.
For desktop user, internet access may not be always available.
And having a local dictd running is a little bit to much
for a desktop user who just want to look up a word.
That's right. I also thought about that. I'm still unsure about how to
store the local dictionary. One obvious possibility would of course
be to define a system-wide and a user-local directory where the
dictionary entries can be found as files with the same name as the
article name. That would make both implementation and usage on
UNIX-like systems easy and also integrate nicely in Spotlight-like
desktop search tools, since articles are simple UTF8 ASCII files. :-)
I would prefer to avoid storing each dictionary entry in a file,
would be better to store them in a basic key/value database. Étoilé
will provide an indexing support in a way that will allow indexing of
items within a file very easily. Briefly, CoreObject will make
possible to reference data structures (in an object form) within a
file then browse or manipulate them a files hierarchy.
Quentin.
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Quentin Mathé
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