Thanks - just fixed this. There should be a new version out with the fix
sometime early this week.
- Blair
On 7/03/2009 8:22 AM, The Vu wrote:
> I got the same problem on Windows.
>
> When I look at the code for "define" have found out the reason. Here
> are the code:
>
> function defineWord(word, callback) {
> var url
> ="http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx/DefineInDict";;
>
> var params = Utils.paramsToString({
> dictId:"wn", //wn: WordNet, gcide: Collaborative Dictionary
> word: word
> });
>
> Utils.ajaxGet(url + params, function(xml) {
> var text = jQuery(xml).find("WordDefinition").text();
>
> callback(text);
> });
> }
>
> CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
> name:"def",
> description:"Gives the meaning of a word.",
> help:"Try issuing"define aglet"",
>
> icon:"http://www.answers.com/favicon.ico";,
> takes: {"word": noun_arb_text},
> execute: function( directObj ) {
> var word = directObj.text;
>
> Utils.openUrlInBrowser("http://www.answers.com/"; + escape(word) );
> },
> preview: function( pblock, directObj ) {
> var word = directObj.text;
> if (word.length< 2)
>
> pblock.innerHTML ="Gives the definition of a word.";
> else {
> pblock.innerHTML ="Gives the definition of the word" + word +".";
> defineWord( word, function(text){
>
> text = text.replace(/(\d+:)/g,"<br/><b>$&</b>");
> text = text.replace(/(1:)/g,"<br/>$&");
> text = text.replace(word,"<span style='font-size:18px;'>$&</span>");
>
> text = text.replace(/\[[^\]]*\]/g,"");
> pblock.innerHTML = text;
> });
> }
> }
>
>
> So define uses the service from aonaware. Given the dictionary id (there
> are different dictionaries there and define use WordNet dictionary) and
> the word it will return the xml with the definition of the word. For
> example if dictionary id is wn (for WordNet) and the word id hello, the
> XML returned is:
>
> <WordDefinition>
> <Word>hello</Word>
> <Definitions>
> <Definition>
> <Word>hello</Word>
> <Dictionary>
> <Id>wn</Id>
> <Name>WordNet (r) 2.0</Name>
> </Dictionary>
> <WordDefinition>
> hello n : an expression of greeting; "every morning they exchanged
> polite hellos" [syn: {hullo}, {hi}, {howdy}, {how-do-you-do}]
> </WordDefinition>
> </Definition>
> </Definitions>
> </WordDefinition>
>
> So define looks up in this xml file for the definition:
>
> var text = jQuery(xml).find("WordDefinition").text()
>
> However, the problem is that there are 2 tags for WordDefinition, the
> innner WordDefintion contains the definition of the word and the outer
> WordDefinition includes the inner one. Hence, the above lookup will
> return duplicate result.
>
> I copied the code and change "WordDefinition" to "Definition" and create
> a new command def to try out. The duplicate in the preview was gone.
>
>
> Best regards
> Tony Vu
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:07 AM, wastvedt <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
> Anytime I look up a word with the built-in "define" command, I get two
> successive copies of the dictionary definition.
> I'm running Firefox 3.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.10, with Ubiquity 0.1.6.1.
> Is this a bug? Or is there something I should do differently? Let me
> know if you need more info.
>
> For example, typing "define ubiquity" displays
>
> ubiquity ubiquity wn WordNet (r) 2.0 ubiquity n : the state of being
> everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) ubiquity n :
> the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at
> once)
>
> Thanks for the help.
> -Trygve
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
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