[Padict-developer] Re: Padict 0.9.0RC0

[Thomas A. H. <th...@in...>]

* Benoit Cerrina <ben...@ya...> [20060213 15:20]:
> this is the first true RC1 of PAdict 0.3.3.

Or rather RC0 of PAdict 0.9.0?

> It's available at the usual nightly build location,
> http://padict.sourceforge.net/padict_nightly/padict_nightly_20060213_667.zip
> 
> you will need to use one of the new dictionaries available at:
> http://www.dark-reality.de/stuff/padict/padict_databases_0.9.0.zip

Thank you for not including the dict in the nightly :-)

Here some first impressions:

Great! There were some minor display issues which are fixed now,
e.g. with scrolling and the jstroke definitions. Now there's only
one extremely minor problem left in the definition screen: When in
landscape mode and extracting the T3 from 320x320 to 450x320, the
now unused region still shows the old content. When activating DIA
and deactivating it again, the display looks clean again. But this
is nothing you should throw too much time on.

Hotlist editing works better now. There is still room for small
improvements (some of the things mentioned in my previous email),
but the current interface is usable without problems.

Other (minor) issues, already appearing in older versions, too:

- In single result view: When scrolling down with the right one of
  the two scroll bars (the kana/kanji display), then switching to
  the next result, the first kana/kanji char gets scrolled off the
  display without the scroll bar reflecting this.

  Example: Result 1/19907 "assari", the kana column shows
  "A-tsu-Sa-Ri", now scrolling down, it shows "tsu-Sa-Ri" (correct)
  Now switch to the next entry: 2/19907 "acchi", the kana column
  shows "tsu-Chi" instead of "A-tsu-Chi".

- One could argue that scrolling down for short kana/kanji words
  should not be possible so one can see that he has to scroll down
  to see the full word by just looking at the scroll bar.

- Some Kana->Romaji translations are strange for me, though I don't
  know if it's my lack of knowledge or a bug in PAdict, e.g.:
  hiragana "U-tsu-Ka-Ri" is written as "ukari" instead of "ukkari"
  (which I'd expected). And the third hit in the public dict when
  searching for the english "eve" reads katakana I-U with the U
  having a dakuten marker. Wikipedia says this reads "vu" (according
  to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana), but PAdict shows
  nothing here.

  I think I've seen more cases like this in the past, but I don't
  know if you like to add these "modern additions" to PAdict.

Thomas

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