From mblondel at rubyforge.org Mon Jun 20 14:21:44 2005 From: mblondel at rubyforge.org (Mathieu Blondel) Date: Mon Jun 20 14:10:43 2005 Subject: [Nihongobenkyo-list] Nihongo Benkyo version 0.1 Message-ID: <42B70938.50001@rubyforge.org> Hi all, I've launched the first version of Nihongo Benkyo, a japanese dictionary and learning tool. This is a free software under GPL. At this time, Nihongo Benkyo : * Is available for Linux and other Unix systems. * Searches words from kanji, kana, romaji or translation. * Imports EDICT-format dictionaries. * Scans selections from other applications. * Has its interface translated in english and french. The website is here : http://nihongobenkyo.rubyforge.org/ (see screenshots and planned features) For people who would like to get involved, do not hesitate to subscribe to the mailing list of the project. I'm looking for people to test the program, create icons, translate the interface, and help me with the code. Cheers, Mathieu Blondel From mblondel at rubyforge.org Thu Jun 23 13:35:16 2005 From: mblondel at rubyforge.org (Mathieu Blondel) Date: Thu Jun 23 13:24:08 2005 Subject: [Nihongobenkyo-list] Problems with 0.1 Message-ID: <42BAF2D4.5000804@rubyforge.org> Hi everyone ! I must said I was quite surprised that launching version 0.1 has been rather successful. Nihongo Benkyo has been one of the most active project on RubyForge this week and I received some encouraging comments about the project so I'm pretty happy ;) If you didn't get NB working, don't hesitate to post your questions here, I'll be glad to try to help you ! The goal of this mail is to describe the problems I discovered for version 0.1. So I found out some bugs with version 0.1 - For obscure reasons, the progress bar isn't displayed when we delete a dictionary from the database (which may be a rather long process). - If "scan selection" has been activated, a "database lock" may make the program crash if nihongobenkyo-import is already working in background. - There's no detection of whether the format choosen by the user (e.g. EDICT) is really the one of the file specified or not. So we should warn the user that the selected file doesn't fullfil the specified format. I haven't figured out yet how to fix the first problem (anyone ?) but I will soon update the code in the CVS for the other two. I've also thought to a neat feature : the verbs are usually defined in dictionaries in their neutral form (also called dictionary form hehe ;)) so it may be useful to replace a conjugated form (te-form, past-form, polite-form etc) by its dictionary form in order to find matches. It may be especially useful if you select (for example in Firefox) a conjugated form of a verb you don't know. Regards, Mathieu. From nospam at lunacymaze.org Fri Jun 24 03:04:36 2005 From: nospam at lunacymaze.org (Ghislain Mary) Date: Fri Jun 24 03:08:17 2005 Subject: [Nihongobenkyo-list] Problems with 0.1 In-Reply-To: <42BAF2D4.5000804@rubyforge.org> References: <42BAF2D4.5000804@rubyforge.org> Message-ID: <42BBB084.8030906@lunacymaze.org> Thanks for the info! Ghislain Mathieu Blondel a ?crit : > Hi everyone ! > > I must said I was quite surprised that launching version 0.1 has been > rather successful. Nihongo Benkyo has been one of the most active > project on RubyForge this week and I received some encouraging comments > about the project so I'm pretty happy ;) > > If you didn't get NB working, don't hesitate to post your questions > here, I'll be glad to try to help you ! > > The goal of this mail is to describe the problems I discovered for > version 0.1. > > So I found out some bugs with version 0.1 > > - For obscure reasons, the progress bar isn't displayed when we delete a > dictionary from the database (which may be a rather long process). > - If "scan selection" has been activated, a "database lock" may make the > program crash if nihongobenkyo-import is already working in background. > - There's no detection of whether the format choosen by the user (e.g. > EDICT) is really the one of the file specified or not. So we should warn > the user that the selected file doesn't fullfil the specified format. > > I haven't figured out yet how to fix the first problem (anyone ?) but I > will soon update the code in the CVS for the other two. > > I've also thought to a neat feature : the verbs are usually defined in > dictionaries in their neutral form (also called dictionary form hehe ;)) > so it may be useful to replace a conjugated form (te-form, past-form, > polite-form etc) by its dictionary form in order to find matches. It may > be especially useful if you select (for example in Firefox) a conjugated > form of a verb you don't know. > > Regards, > Mathieu. > _______________________________________________ > Nihongobenkyo-list mailing list > Nihongobenkyo-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/nihongobenkyo-list > >