Windows Popup dictionary tool?

[Johnny20270]

Hi all, 

 

I recently installed the zhongwen Chinese Popup Translator plugin for Chrome. Its a very useful tool. But I am wondering if there is anything that can perform a similar functionality but within the whole Windows environment, so can v=be used in Word, excel, pdfs etc

 

 

 

[Shelley]

There is a list of tools here -  http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/8195-best-of-chinese-study-tools-studying-chinese-online-and-off/

 

Post #1 has a list of popup translators about half way down.

 

I use wenlin but you have to cut and paste so not quite what you were after,

 

MDGB does this sort of thing but I found it very unstable on my system.

 

I use firefox and perapera for browsing.

 

In Word there is a function for "phonetic guide" which provides pinyin for highlighted text, very good as a help to decipher unknown characters.

 

Hope this helps.

[Johnny20270]

Ahh sorry I forgot to read that. Pinned topic aswell!

 

(Should have gone to specsavers  )

 

thanks shelley

[zyx199199]

You dao dictionary （http://dict.youdao.com/） may be helpful. it is designed for Chinese to learn English, but you can also benefit from it. An alternative is jin shan ci ba （http://ciba.iciba.com/），Microsoft also has its own e-dictionary that can function as you need