FEATURES
- It's FREE (both the program and the dictionaries).
- MFC based with Document/View architect.
- Can load any dictionary in Dictzip format, UTF-8 encoded. The interface display text in unicode format, I suggest Tahoma or Times New Roman, they are the most completed fonts. Thus, the program is able to display languages that are supported in Unicode.
- Because of the speed and memory limit of Casio BE-300 (and somewhat in PocketPC), DictzCE won't load the whole index into memory. This is a trade off between memory saving and speed. For really huge dictionary (like World Net), the delay time go up to 2 seconds for words at the end of a letter section, but I don't have to load a 2MB index file into memory.
- Toggle-able word list, which show the list of neighboring words that close to the word you entered (about 40 words).
- Able to set default dictionary to be loaded at program start up.
- Able to change font and font size.
- Basic copy, paste and cut operation.
- Two arrays for rough index, which increase the speed of searching on index file a lot, while being error-proof to bad index files with misplace words (e.g. "egg" in D section).
- When making the rough index file, it also learns how the characters in that language are sorted. Thus, it can break down large section using the second letter instead of first letter only. This improve the speed a lot.
- Page up, page down, previous and next rough index section buttons.
- Some dictionaries ignore white space in sorting, some don't. The program is able to detect if white space is ignored or not, thus, surviving this non-standard issue.
Future features:
- Converting the Makedict utilities from Unix to Win32 so that users can make their custom dictionary, or contribute to the Dict project in creating free dictionary in more languages.
- The navigation buttons are a little bit mis-aligned when I recompiled for PPC2002. I'm planning on improving the search engine a little bit, so I wil fix that in the next version also.
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