xentropic Posted September 9, 2006 at 04:07 PM Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 04:07 PM Finally theres a plugin for Firefox that will allow you to mouse over chinese and get a popup that gives you the pinyin pronuncation and english meaning. I modded the plugin Rikai-chan which did the same to Japanese along with adding the ability to export the word you highlighted to an external file you can use to add to a flashcard list or something like that. It searches the CEDICT dictionary file which doesnt seem to have anywhere near the entries the japanese EDICT has, but its better than nothing. If all else fails , you can at least get a character by character reading. In the options you menu you can choose Simplified or Traditional which will change what gets displayed in the popup AND what version will be exported (if you choose both it will export both but display simplified in teh popup). Currently the export format is in GB2312 so it might looked scrambled in notepad or something but will read correctly when you import your list into a flashcard program that reads that encoding. Later I will add more features and fix little things here and there (I modded it in 5 hours) but it is way more than usable now so I figured it release it rather than using just for myself. Enjoy!! Comments/Ideas welcome. peraperakun at gmail.com get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3349/ Quote
necroflux Posted September 9, 2006 at 05:27 PM Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 05:27 PM Trying it out right now, I'll let you know how it goes. Quote
gato Posted September 9, 2006 at 05:50 PM Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 05:50 PM Why does it say "please install a dictionary for peraperakun" when I try to toggle it on? Quote
xentropic Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:22 PM Author Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:22 PM do you have rikaichan installed also, apparently theres a resource confict with that ?? ill fix it in a few days, it worked fine on 4 computers that i tested it on Quote
gato Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:24 PM Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:24 PM No, never had rikaichan installed. I do have moji installed, however. Quote
necroflux Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:32 PM Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:32 PM Got the same message here, I don't have any dictionaries installed to my knowledge. Quote
xentropic Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:49 PM Author Report Posted September 9, 2006 at 06:49 PM yea your right there was something in the code looking for a dictionary to be installed....fixed that problem, sorry about that, i double checked it this time should work. so please uninstall it and try the new one. v0.1.1 ive been using it for awhile and so has my friend and finally decided to put it up for people so there might be a few problems at the beginning on other peoples machines...dunno Quote
doumeizhen Posted September 10, 2006 at 05:18 AM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 05:18 AM can you give us the new link, please? Quote
xentropic Posted September 10, 2006 at 05:45 AM Author Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 05:45 AM i uploaded the fix like over 12 hours ago but its waiting "approval" from mozilla which is just an automated script that checks the files validity, once thats over it will be on the same site and appear as ver 0.1.1 dunno when that will ever happen, but when it does you can download it from the same site Quote
atitarev Posted September 10, 2006 at 05:48 AM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 05:48 AM Yes, give us the new download link, please! I am an active user of Rikaichan. Hanzi Bar is similar but Rikaichan has a better look-and-feel, I was looking forward to this innovation! The alternative is Hanzi Bar, you can read any Chinese web-page in your Firefox, and you can do it off-line, too. Hanzi Bar: http://realimaginary.com/ It's a bit tricky, you also need to install dictionaries (separate download) Let's see what peraperakun does! Quote
digmen1 Posted September 10, 2006 at 09:40 AM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 09:40 AM Hi xentropic I am stratring to teach myself to write basic Chinese. You will imagine what a marvelous tool your pop up sounds ! I have installed it. But like the others I need the CEDICT. I think you should mention this in your description of your program and provide a link to where we can get it and how we should install it and where, and which version we should download as there seem to be 3 versions. Thank you Kind Regards Digby New Zealand Quote
necroflux Posted September 10, 2006 at 01:52 PM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 01:52 PM I made this post in one of the other threads that got deleted, but: 1.01 doesn't require any dictionaries installed, so no worries about that. This extension is incredible, it's simple and fast. That said the dictionary that is included could use some work in order for the extension to reach its full potential. I'll see if I can't help work on the extension. In any case this is a must have extension already, even with the dictionary issues. Very useful stuff. Quote
gato Posted September 10, 2006 at 03:00 PM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 03:00 PM I have the extension working, and it is indeed very fast. I haven't tried it out fully yet, but if the dictionary is incomplete, maybe you get the Adsotrans dictionary adapted for it. The Adso dictionary uses the CEDICT dictionary as one of its bases, I believe. http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/5563-adso-dictionary-open-source&highlight=source Adso dictionary : open source? http://www.adsotrans.com/ Quote
xentropic Posted September 10, 2006 at 08:28 PM Author Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 08:28 PM first, if anyone has download the first version i posted it wont work, so get the one that finally is posted on mozilla (ver 0.1.1) which will work fine. it has the CEDICT file included yea if theres more dictionaries it would be easy to add them to the search, even without the entries you can usually figure out the meaning from going character by character, but ill see what else is out there Quote
atitarev Posted September 10, 2006 at 10:39 PM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 10:39 PM Xentropic, I PM'ed you. My setup is not working. Gato, please tell me what you did and how start up this extension. I also have Rikaichan, maybe that's why it's not working, I don't see it in the tools or context menus. Quote
gato Posted September 10, 2006 at 11:19 PM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 11:19 PM atitarev, xentropic said that since his extension is modified from rikaichan, it can't currently coexist with rikaichan due to resource name conflicts. But he's working on correcting that for the next release. He said you can work around this for the moment by creating a new profile for Firefox. Quote
atitarev Posted September 10, 2006 at 11:35 PM Report Posted September 10, 2006 at 11:35 PM Thanks, Gato. I thought the message was related to version 1.0. Quote
flameproof Posted September 11, 2006 at 02:17 AM Report Posted September 11, 2006 at 02:17 AM I just installed and tried 0.1.1. It works perfectly. Did only do a short test so far. Just hat to install from the mozilla site and nothing else. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3349/ Well done! Quote
flameproof Posted September 11, 2006 at 03:22 AM Report Posted September 11, 2006 at 03:22 AM ok, not that i want to promote my own posting....... but... I had a look here: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/12-horse-horse-tiger-tiger-slang-and-idioms706 Post #6 by Quest was: .... 黐线，..... .... 黐 gives some sort of japanese pop up. I can do a screenshot if you can't get the same result. But not a big issue though.... Quote
nubix Posted September 11, 2006 at 03:24 AM Report Posted September 11, 2006 at 03:24 AM xentropic, thank you, it is very useful. Quote
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