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bogleg -

Tiantian -

Yeah, I realize the Handedict (and Adso) dictionaries are quite a bit slower then cedict. The
handedict dictionary is actually almost 3 times larger then cedict. I've been playing around with
things like database indexes and such, and while I've been able to speed up 'exact match' queries
for character and pinyin, it doesn't help much with 'contains' or definition queries. Anyway, what
I'm really saying is I need someone with more database experience than I have to help me out.

I like your font idea. Let me see if I can get it in to the next release. I've also thought about
integrating Hanzilookup before, but it's licensed under the GPL which doesn't seem compatible with
the ZDT's EPL license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse...#Compatibility

Chris



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bogleg -

Luobot -

1 & 2) Let me see what I can do for this next release.

3) Not going to get into 0.7.0 final, but I definitely would like to make it one of the major
highlights of the next, next release.

Chris










PJPoon -

Could you create a feature and provide an update site so that I can install ZDT in Eclipse instead
of running it as a stand alone RCP application?
Other than that ZDT is an amazing program.










peterjez -

I want to echo what most people have said. ZDT is not annoying. It's a great program.

Here are some ideas I have:
1. Have some information about categories next to the category name: (number of words, maybe like
an average score to tell you which category you should study).
2. Use flash cards from multiple categories. What if I wanted to just do this overall test that
tested from all my categories at once, or maybe a specific category?
3. Make categories more like folders. I've been reading Dragonball Z in Chinese and I have a
category for each book that I read. Now I have read 20 different books, and have 20 different
categories and it's hard to navigate through. I wish I could just group them all into one
Dragonball category. This could help with my idea #2. Previously I was just creating another
category called AllDB and putting words in there from all the DB categories.
4. I want to be able to search a category for a word. Sometimes I find a mistake in one of the
flashcards (like maybe the pinyin is wrong), but then the list is 300 words long. Finding that
word is kind of annoying.
5. Are there really other plugins for ZDT? Because I haven't found any.
6. We need an online place to share categories. I've spent many hours just creating my dragonball
categories for example. If only I could share them.
7. Here's a far out idea: what if I could enter in some text and then ZDT automatically extract
flash cards for me. For example, maybe I read an online article that I want to study. Then I input
all the article's text and then ZDT could extract all the relevant words (maybe based on your own
scores of words, or frequency that the word appears in the language).
8. Why are scores stored in the word in the category and not universally? For example, I can have
one word that I have in two different categories, but my score for that same word could be
different. Scores should be stored in the dictionary itself or something, that way each time you
access that word, you can update your score for that word.
9. Like Idea #1, why not put your scores next to the words in the category list?
10. My final idea which I brought to you in another post: make this tool usable for Chinese
learning English.

Hahah sorry to overload you and thanks for hearing me out










rabbit -

Dear Chris,

ZDT is really excellent!

There's just one small thing which I'm actually missing a lot: I'd like to have the option to see
the definition instead of the character in the pinyin recall test mode.

If that functionality would be included, ZDT would be perfect for me!

Thank you so much!
Uwe










bogleg -

@PJPoon - Can you explain why you'd like to do this?

@peterjez - I like a lot of your comments. I'm adding a link to your post to my todo list. Let me
comment on a few of them though.

2) You can already use flashcards from multiple categories. In the flashcard dialog where you pick
your category to test, use ctrl-click (Windows) to select more than one category.

5) Right now, the plugins not included with the main program install are the dictionary ones
(adso, and handedict) and the sound plugins. I've written a simple chinesepod one for demo
purposes, but I haven't published it.

6) Email me (fongcn at gmail dot com) any word lists you've created. I have a bunch of user
submitted lists posted here: http://zdt.sourceforge.net/main/wordlist_index/

Chris










PJPoon -

Well, I always have Eclipse open and I pretty much do everything with Eclipse, so wouldn't it be
great if ZDT could also be used in Eclipse without having to run ZDT by itself? Since it's an RCP
application, it shouldn't be too difficult to do this right?










cming -

1. From a beginner's perspective the default font size is too small, just make it a few points
bigger. (I know this is easy to do once installed, but better if you could somehow make it larger
by default). I also agree with other comments here about having a different font for pinyin and
hanzi, that would be a lot easier on my eyes.

2. Being able to jump straight to the stroke order when you are in the flashcards, without having
to reset or end your session would be great.










bogleg -

@PJPoon - Well, I'm not sure. I don't think you could just drop in the plugins into your Eclipse
folder and have it just "work". Would you have a ZDT perspective? I myself have Eclipse open all
day for work, and I've never had the urge to have ZDT embedded in it. Still, if you're an Eclipse
guy, maybe you could do the proper modifications and show me the light.

@cming - The program just uses your system's default font and size. I don't really want to mess
with the defaults since it's different on the every platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and everyone
has their own preferences for what they like. For example on my Mac, the text is very tiny by
default, but I just hit Ctrl + a couple of times and I'm good to go. I will try and incorporate
your stroke animation idea though.

Chris










toads -

Three small requests:
* The ability to batch import files into their own category. As it stands, if I want to import
say all 11 wordlists for colloquial chinese into zdt it takes a *lot* of mouse clicks.
* The ability to see the stroke order of the characters on the current flashcard (maybe a
keyboard shortcut?), as was mentioned before.
* The ability to give an "importance score" to a vocabulary item in flash card mode, i.e. a
number from say 1 to 5 representing how important something is; a higher score could give the
card a bigger weight in the interval filter or something.













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