I am VERY much interested in this, and would like to add the feature.
Any chance I can get a free dictionary or two for "testing"? :-) Alex
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Konstantin Klyatskin wrote:
> Hello Plucker team,
>
> Just have subscribed to the list, so I'd like to introduce myself and
> suggest (and support?) some new features for Plucker.
>
> I'm a developer of RoadLingua (www.absoluteword.com) - dictionary
> family for Palm OS and PocketPC devices.
>
> The proposal I have is the following: I have checked the
> readers/viewers we have on Palm OS market and failed to find a text
> viewer which fits all my expectations in working with resident mode of
> RoadLingua. The resident (popup mode) is the mode when you mark any
> word in any Palm application, make a magic stroke or call command menu
> and RoadLingua screen with translation of marked word pops up. The
> problem is that all viewers do not allow marking the words in normal
> mode. So either I have to write a new viewer or cooperate with any
> viewer's developer to adopt both the viewer and RoadLingua to each
> other. I want the viewer to have a mode allowing to scroll the text by
> keys and jog while the tap on any word in a text will call RoadLingua
> (I will provide some API) to translate the word. Will you have an
> interest to adopt your Plucker and bundle it with RoadLingua English
> and/or other dictionaries? We both could get profits here: you'll get
> dictionaries with your reader while I'll get a reader tuned for my
> application. If you want to try RoadLingua, please download it from
> our site and let me know UserID it reports you, I will send you your
> registration keys then. As Plucker is under GPL while RL is shareware
> we could think about providing free registration for RL viewer (not
> lexicons though) to everybody who will provide a reference code from
> you.
>
> Actually all you have to do to call RL as popup is to launch RL
> through subcall having cmd = sysAppLaunchCmdCustomBase, and text
> pointer set in (char*)cmdPBP;
>
> UInt32 PilotMain(UInt16 cmd, MemPtr cmdPBP, UInt16 launchFlags) <=>
>
> PilotMain(sysAppLaunchCmdCustomBase,stringToTranslate,sysAppLaunchFlagSubCall);
>
>
> If you need some sample code let me know and let me know and I will
> send it to you later.
>
> Just want you to know, that I came to this idea trying to find a good
> Palm reader for my Sony NX73 to read the last Harry Potter in English.
> My mother's language is Russian, so I have to look in a dictionary for
> some words. iSilo, Plucker, TiBR PRO are all good , others lack in
> HiRes+, or jog dial, or something else. But it was really a pain to
> popup translation since Plucker uses taps either for scrolling or
> hyperlink jumps. I had to mark and copy a word into in clipboard and
> then paste it in RL. We have contacted with TiBR team to make
> dictionary popup a standard feature of the reader and we expect new
> release of TiBR to come really soon. iSilo is ignoring us. What about
> you?
>
>
>
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Philosophy Department || online papers and home page:
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