[APP] [27Sep09] Free Mult-Language Dictionary

[bokiteam]

Hi All,
I would like to introduce a muti-language dictionary and vocabulary learning aids application.

It's called BVocabulary.

Please watch the DEMO Video in youtube first :P
http://www.youtube.com/user/bokiteam

The latest DEMO video is for BVocabulary 1.9, however, you can download the version 2.0 in current thread.

I would like you to visit another thread to get more detail:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php%3Ff%3D129%26t%3D918269%26r%3D2%26l ast%3D10862747&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&history_state0=

The major problem in beta are some popup messages not displayed in English yet ... however, I think it is not a big obstacle to use this software.
I didn't pack them to cab file, you could copy and then use it directly, this version are free to use/test until 2009/10/01. ( after deadline, it will disable some functions )

You can also download startdict dictionaries (http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_dictd-www.dict.org.php) to customize your BVocabulary.

P.S
1. This based on .Net Compact Framework 3.5
2. You can not download anything from mobile01 site unless you are a member, however, just let me know anything you need, I will post it to XDA.

This is my first post in XDA, let me know if I do anything wrong.

Thanks!
Boki

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2009/10/31 Update
http://bokiteam.myweb.hinet.net/images/index.32.jpg
http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabulary2/cover.png

Here is my official site:
http://bokiteam.myweb.hinet.net/

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2010/01/17 Update (Latest version, newer than attachments, but you still need the attachment for the BVocabulary.dll )

BVocabulary VIVID:
http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabulary2/BVocabularyViVid_20090117.zip

BVocabulary Standard:
http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabulary2/BVocabulary2p31.zip



and, welcome donation to let me know you also like my work :) Thanks!
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=11236704


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// 03 July 2010 Update free version of BVocabulary VIVID.
// ( DLL file of previous version is required )
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Please download it in attachment - [BVocabularyVivid_3July2010.zip]

[bokiteam]

[10 JUL 2009] Add introduction slides. :)

[bokiteam]

Version 2.1

* .Net Compact Framework 3.5 is required.
* How to use StarDict dictionary ?
1. Download the dictionary from stardict website.
2. Uncompress the dictionary file, copy to your Windows Mobile device.
3. Run BVocabulary.exe , select File, External File, choose the dictionary you uncompressed then use it. :)

[bokiteam]

BVocabulary 2.1 Vivid version.

What's new in Vivid version ?

1. Support HTML format dictionary, you can see photo / color text in definition.
2. A little speed up loading speed.

BVocabulary Vivid is a branch from BVocabulary.

Download also available @ my temp page:
http://bvocabulary.googlepages.com/home

[bokiteam]

BVocabulary VIVID 2.2 Release.

http://bokiteam.myweb.hinet.net/

http://bvocabulary.googlepages.com/home

[myself11]

With version vivid 2.2, there isn't a bar to scroll down and see all the info (and the data doesn't fit the screen - it would be necessary to scroll right also).

With version 2.31 (the last one), though I can scroll, a bug occurs with html dictionaries: they loose formatation (the instructions for alignment and colour and etc. are displayed).

[bokiteam]

Yup, you are right. They are known issues.

and I am quite busy recently to debug it ...

Sorry about that : )

[hsmcd]

it's always good to be FREE!! hehe...definitely will give it a try. Thanks for sharing

[bokiteam]

Good to hear that.

Try this link for latest version ( 2.31 beta )

http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabulary2/BVocabulary2p31.zip

[msia]

Hi bokiteam, I am new to this site. I would like to know how to install this dict to my wm mobile phone? just follow the steps below that u posted b4?


1. Download the dictionary from stardict website.
2. Uncompress the dictionary file, copy to your Windows Mobile device.
3. Run BVocabulary.exe , select File, External File, choose the dictionary you uncompressed then use it.


Can I have many dictionaries in stardict to be displayed at one time after installed? And if is possible for this dict to pronounce the words after following the installation step above? Thanks in advance!!:)

[bokiteam]

Hi

Yes, we only need the two files ( BVocabulary.exe and BVocabulary.dll ) then we can use this application.

We can find BVocabulary.dll in packages of old versions, or you could get it from http://www.pocketgear.com/en_US/html/display_product.jsp?id=prod7150551pg

Regarding the displaying multi-dictionaries at the same time, this is unsupported yet. ( if we want to get different result, we could manually switch different dictionary )

To install the pronunciation database, please download WyabdcRealPeopleTTS @ sourceforge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stardict/files/WyabdcRealPeopleTTS/

then uncompressed the zip(tar.bz2) file, put the WyabdcRealPeopleTTS folder to the same directory as BVocabulary.exe

Verification:
Search "book" or "good" in BVocabulary, it should able to pronounce now.


Some more info:
Here is a link that provides a step by step introduction to install BVocabulary ( ex: install stardict dictionary, pronunciation, phonetic font ...etc ), however, it was in Chinese, I post a Google translation link as following:

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://b-cty.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!404D8E13BA49569C!3922.entry&sl=auto&tl=en

[msia]

thanks bokiteam, will try it out!!:)

[msia]

Hi bokiteam, I am having problem installing giving me this error message:

MissingMethodException
This application requires a newer version of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework than the version installed on this device.


can i know how to check the Net Compact Framework version in my mobile phone. I am using WM6.5:confused:

[bokiteam]

Hi

BVocabulary required .Net Compact Framework 3.5

The default in WM devices I guess .Net CF 2.0

We can check .Net CF version in 'Add/Remove program' ( if you installed it manually before )

Please try 3.5, I think it will work :)

Hi bokiteam, I am having problem installing giving me this error message:

MissingMethodException
This application requires a newer version of the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework than the version installed on this device.


can i know how to check the Net Compact Framework version in my mobile phone. I am using WM6.5:confused:

[Bombenbach]

Hi Bokiteam,

BVocabulary is really a great peace of software, thanks for coding! :cool:

The only nasty problem I've discovered so far, is that BVocabulary doesn't interpret some Stardict tags like <k>, </k>. It's basically the same problem as described here:
http://member.teesoft.info/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=294

It would be very nice if you could fix it in one of the next releases ;)

P.S. One more question? Can BVocabulary accept command line parameters? I mean, if you have many dictionaries and quickly want to access a certain one, it would be very convenient to create a shortcut like "BVocabulary.exe -DictA.ifo" So you could have a shortcut for each dictionary in your start menu like
Dict A - "BVocabulary.exe -DictA.ifo"
Dict B - "BVocabulary.exe -DictB.ifo"
Dict C - "BVocabulary.exe -DictC.ifo"

That would also be great.

[bokiteam]

Hi Bombenbach,

Please find below link for a newer version ( BVocabulary VIVID - v20090117 )

http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabulary2/BVocabularyViVid_20090117.zip

It can interpret the tags and photos :)

( To display photo, need to put the dict in root directory, ex: ( \Storage Card\AABBCC\AABBCC.ifo )


For shortcut to load different dict, here is a workaround:

Please find the hidden file in the same folder of BVocabulary.exe ( or BVocabularyViVid.exe )

BVocabulary.cfg ( this is a text file )

Modify the content to necessary dicts ...
ex:
\Storage Card\stardict-quick_eng-kor-2.4.2\EXAMPLE.ifo

then ....

create as many as folders to process them ... :P

Thank you for your idea, I will consider it.
BR,
Boki.

[Bombenbach]

Thank you for your prompt answer! Bvocabulary Vivid works great :D *happy*

[myself11]

Does anyone have bvocabulary working flawlessly on HTC HD2?

In Vivid version I always have the same bug: the data doesn't autofit the screen and I can't scroll down and right properly.

:(

[Bombenbach]

Well, actually I also can't see any scrollbars on my TP2, but at least I still can use the arrow buttons to scroll up or down. You may try to remap some buttons on your HD2 to up/down-buttons as I did on my TP2.

It would be nice if I could scroll with my fingers on the touchscreen like in Opera, Word or Outlook, but it seems that BVocabulary Vivid doesn't support that yet.

[bokiteam]

Hi

You *may* able to scroll screen by touch screen.

I just tested BVocabulary Standard 2.31 and BVocabulary Vivid 2.2 on HTC diamond (WM6.1), both can do touch scroll.

FYI :)

BR,
Boki.

Well, actually I also can't see any scrollbars on my TP2, but at least I still can use the arrow buttons to scroll up or down. You may try to remap some buttons on your HD2 to up/down-buttons as I did on my TP2.

It would be nice if I could scroll with my fingers on the touchscreen like in Opera, Word or Outlook, but it seems that BVocabulary Vivid doesn't support that yet.

[bokiteam]

Hi myself11,

Maybe setup a smaller font size in BVocabulary(setup->other setting->font size) could help as workaround for now.

BR,
Boki.


Does anyone have bvocabulary working flawlessly on HTC HD2?

In Vivid version I always have the same bug: the data doesn't autofit the screen and I can't scroll down and right properly.

:(

[Bombenbach]

Well, than it's probably another issue with WM 6.5, as in my case it doesn't work on WM 6.5 :(

[myself11]

Hi myself11,

Maybe setup a smaller font size in BVocabulary(setup->other setting->font size) could help as workaround for now.

BR,
Boki.

I've tried that already ;) Didn't solve the problem, unfortunately.

What is strange is that one or two times, after I changed a setting, a scroll bar appeared, but it allowed to scroll just a little bit.

Is it very different to develop an app for WM 6.1 and 6.5 (noob question), or this issue isn't related to that, but with a bug with WM 6.5?

Keep up the good work! I eagerly await for a bug free Bvocabulary for WM 6.5, because I really like this app.

[Bombenbach]

Keep up the good work! I eagerly await for a bug free Bvocabulary for WM 6.5, because I really like this app.

I agree with that. After all BVocabulary is the only WinMo dictionary app that can understand StarDict. Thus, Boki's work is a great gift to the whole WinMo-community :cool:

[DavidFong]

Thanks for making this application! It works reasonably well with all the dictionaries I tried, except the Xiangya-Medical-Dictionary.

I notice that BDictionary puts out the error message saying somthing like that it can't handle 250,000 words 25万字 （please excuse my Chinese, I am still learning!).

Looking forward to an update which can handle the Xiangya-Medical dictionary!

In my installation, oxford-gb also has some 'strange' empty-box characters. However, this dictionary is useable, at least for English speakers.

Cheerio, David.

[msia]

hi bokiteam, is this application installed in my device. it seems like i couldnt find this program under remove program list...any way i could uninstall it if i would like to do so :confused:

[bokiteam]

Hello Msia,

We don't need to uninstall this application.

Just simply delete the BVocabulary.exe and BVocabulary.dll
:)

Boki.


hi bokiteam, is this application installed in my device. it seems like i couldnt find this program under remove program list...any way i could uninstall it if i would like to do so :confused:

[bokiteam]

Hi DavidFong,

Please try to download another phonetic font supported by MDict:
http://www.octopus-studio.com/ksphonetic.ttf

Please also install this font to Windows\Font as 'Lucida Sans Unicode'.

In default setting:

oxford-gb will use Lucida Sans Unicode.
oxford-big5 will use Kingsoft phonetic Plain (ksphonetic.ttf)

FYI.

Cheers,
BR,
Boki.


Thanks for making this application! It works reasonably well with all the dictionaries I tried, except the Xiangya-Medical-Dictionary.

I notice that BDictionary puts out the error message saying somthing like that it can't handle 250,000 words 25万字 （please excuse my Chinese, I am still learning!).

Looking forward to an update which can handle the Xiangya-Medical dictionary!

In my installation, oxford-gb also has some 'strange' empty-box characters. However, this dictionary is useable, at least for English speakers.

Cheerio, David.

[myself11]

For when a new release?

[Bombenbach]

Hi Boiteam,

BVocabulary vivid tells me : "Sorry, this version will expire after 12 days". What does it mean? Is BVocabulary vivid a trial?

[bokiteam]

Yes, vivid version is a trail for about 6 months since release.

I have no idea should I update a version to extend trail or convert to product yet.

if any problem in vivid version, please use standard 2.31 version, it is free and no limitation.

Boki.

Hi Boiteam,

BVocabulary vivid tells me : "Sorry, this version will expire after 12 days". What does it mean? Is BVocabulary vivid a trial?

[bokiteam]

Sorry, the income/donation is hard for me to dedicate it for now.
:(

For when a new release?

[pistou]

The title of this thread says it's a free app, but in fact it's a commercial app -- you really should change that and be honest about it.

[bokiteam]

Hi

BVocabulary is not commercial app, but I accept donation, and looking into the donation total, I decided to pause the development of VIVID version ( branch of BVocabulary Standard ), therefore, even me don't have an official version for sale.

However, BVocabulary Standard is still FREE, everybody could download and use it for FREE still.




The title of this thread says it's a free app, but in fact it's a commercial app -- you really should change that and be honest about it.

[Bombenbach]

Hi

BVocabulary is not commercial app, but I accept donation, and looking into the donation total, I decided to pause the development of VIVID version ( branch of BVocabulary Standard ), therefore, even me don't have an official version for sale.

However, BVocabulary Standard is still FREE, everybody could download and use it for FREE still.

Hi bokiteam,

any news concerning BVocabularay Vivid?

The standard version is nice but since it doesn't support tags, it's quite useless for me because all my dicts have tags.

On the other hand, at the moment there is actually no way to use Vivid since one can't buy it (because it's not a commercial app as you've said) but also can't really use it as a freeware (because of the time limitation).

If you want to earn money with your software you might consider making Vivid a commercial app. Alternatively, if you want Vivid to be a donationware, you could release a version without any limitations but add new features only after a certain amount of donations has been collected.

Of course it's up to you to decide, but at least it would be nice to know your plans.

[bokiteam]

Hi bokiteam,

any news concerning BVocabularay Vivid?

The standard version is nice but since it doesn't support tags, it's quite useless for me because all my dicts have tags.

On the other hand, at the moment there is actually no way to use Vivid since one can't buy it (because it's not a commercial app as you've said) but also can't really use it as a freeware (because of the time limitation).

If you want to earn money with your software you might consider making Vivid a commercial app. Alternatively, if you want Vivid to be a donationware, you could release a version without any limitations but add new features only after a certain amount of donations has been collected.

Of course it's up to you to decide, but at least it would be nice to know your plans.

Hi Bombenbach,

According to your reply. I will release a free version of BVocabulary Vivid.

Target date is 4July2010, Sunday ( that means I work at home on free time :) )

and thank you for analysis.

BR,
Boki.

[Johev]

Hi people, I have read all the 4 pages of this thread, but I was unable to find what languages does this support.

[bokiteam]

Hi people, I have read all the 4 pages of this thread, but I was unable to find what languages does this support.


http://www.stardict.org/forum/

I didn't try it yet, because it was different while I was using it.
However, I think it also works.

[myself11]

Hi Bombenbach,

According to your reply. I will release a free version of BVocabulary Vivid.

Target date is 4July2010, Sunday ( that means I work at home on free time :) )

and thank you for analysis.

BR,
Boki.

That's great news and thanks for your commitment. Is it a new version? Are you developing it for WinMo 6.5.1 or 6.5.3?

P.S.: donate ppl!

[bokiteam]

Hi All,

I uploaded the unlimited version of BVocabulary VIVID in first post. FYI. :)

BR,
Boki

[bokiteam]

That's great news and thanks for your commitment. Is it a new version? Are you developing it for WinMo 6.5.1 or 6.5.3?

P.S.: donate ppl!

Hi Myself11,

It is the same environment as previous versions ( that means we have same function and same bug(s), sorry for that ;) ).

BR,
Boki

[myself11]

Hi Boki!

One day earlier :)

I saw some improvements, but, unfortunately, the issue in my WM 6.5.3 HD2 remains: the data doesn't fit the screen and there isn't a horizontal bar to scroll and see all the info.

[demonoidaemon]

Thanks to Boki for having Vivid released one day early, I'm been waiting for this for these two days. Great news!

[palmtreo5000]

THis is not working on WM6.1 palm treo 500 non touch..
i have been looking for dictionary
pliz i need yr advice..
god bless

[palmtreo5000]

BVocabulary Standard:
http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabu...bulary2p31.zip
not there..
pliz new link for my mobile phone palm treo WM6.1 non touch.
god bless

[Earl grey]

Hi "bikiteam"

First thanks you very very luch to create a free dictionnary.

Unfortunatlely, in my hd2 it seems have a bug. I let you see the picture atached a the message.

Thanks again for your work

Earl

[myself11]

That's not a bug. Click on the squares on the right (setup), then Language (second item from below) so you could change the language to english.

[bokiteam]

BVocabulary Standard:
http://sites.google.com/site/bvocabu...bulary2p31.zip
not there..
pliz new link for my mobile phone palm treo WM6.1 non touch.
god bless


Hi

Sorry, please click the link on first post, it works ( it links to one of my google web pages, but you need to click again to download material in new page ). XDA will convert full link to shorter name, so it failed if you copy & paste to browser. ( need to click directly on original link, however, no virus, no spam, no spy )

:)

[Earl grey]

That's not a bug. Click on the squares on the right (setup), then Language (second item from below) so you could change the language to english.

Thanks for your help.

There is already some probleme it seems not very good integrated in hd2.

Thanks for your work

Earl

[ookimi]

I tested the latest Vivid version on my at&t tilt. Seems like it is an executable script that can only work with one dictionary file at a time, and cannot really be used with big dictionary files. It took it a minute to think about my 10 Mb English-Russian dictionary. It created two temporary files totalling 8.7 Mbs and then gave that "something went wrong" error.

[bokiteam]

Hi

1. If it is a converting problem. You could use PC version to convert the necessary files.

http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=300&t=857358

Sorry, this page has no English version yet.

2. If this is a loading dictionary problem, the root cause is available memory space.

3. If the dictionary contains more than 250,000 vocabularies, it may failed to load.


I tested the latest Vivid version on my at&t tilt. Seems like it is an executable script that can only work with one dictionary file at a time, and cannot really be used with big dictionary files. It took it a minute to think about my 10 Mb English-Russian dictionary. It created two temporary files totalling 8.7 Mbs and then gave that "something went wrong" error.

[siddbudd]

阿弥陀佛！

I would be very happy to use this program, but all the dictionaries I need are unpacked versions, the program is asking me for a .dz file, which I do not have.

I need mainly Buddhist dictionaries, for example faxiangcidian, I have following files:
faxiangcidian.dict
faxiangcidian.idx
faxiangcidian.idx.oft
faxiangcidian.ifo
when I try to open, the program asks for faxiangcidian.dict.dz...

What can I do?
All the best!

[bokiteam]

Hi

The files you got looks already unzip.

When I was using dictionaries provided by star-dict, they are zip format which BVocabulary can use it.

One possible solution is to zip them together manually first, then BVocabulary may able to unzip it by it's own process.

Thank you and good day.
BR,
Boki.


阿弥陀佛！

I would be very happy to use this program, but all the dictionaries I need are unpacked versions, the program is asking me for a .dz file, which I do not have.

I need mainly Buddhist dictionaries, for example faxiangcidian, I have following files:
faxiangcidian.dict
faxiangcidian.idx
faxiangcidian.idx.oft
faxiangcidian.ifo
when I try to open, the program asks for faxiangcidian.dict.dz...

What can I do?
All the best!

[siddbudd]

Hi

The files you got looks already unzip.

When I was using dictionaries provided by star-dict, they are zip format which BVocabulary can use it.

One possible solution is to zip them together manually first, then BVocabulary may able to unzip it by it's own process.

Thank you and good day.
BR,
Boki.

Thank you for answering! I did notice that they are zipped, but I do not know how to create .dz archives. But in the meanwhile I found some debian packages which contained the original zipped dictionary files, I can now use BVocabulary :)

In the meanwhile I also found a program for Macintosh which can open StarDict dicionaries: TranslateIt!

Greetings!

[damikey]

Patient is key but when you're at a dead end, you're simple stuck.

Would someone please post the Bvocabulary.dll files to the first thread. I would appreciated.

I've used google translator and went through the chinese instructional manual. Everything went well until I have to register into a site to dnload the dll file which I don't like to do.

Thank you for any help.

PROBLEM solved by downloading the international verision for WM5 which contains the dll file.

[abubaha]

Dear bokiteam:

I tired all your software versions in your official website.

All of them are expired!!!???:confused:

Please clarify