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about
CocoaPerlCEDICT provides an interface to a Chinese-English
dictionary. It supports looking up words by their English definition,
Pinyin pronounciation, or traditional Chinese text.
The layout of its interface is largely based on that of
OriDict,
and the application icon from it is used.
notable features:
- Search by English, Pinyin, or Chinese
- Filter results: "begins with", "ends with", "exact match",
"partial match"
- Tone marks. Example:
pin1 yin1 becomes
pīn yīn.
- Convenient font resizing with a slider
- Easy modification of program behavior. Just edit the Perl
modules (
CocoaPerlCEDICTWindowController.pm
most commonly) within the application bundle. No need
to recompile.
An example of the type of change you might want to make is
to modify the font styles/colours and the order the parts of
each record (Chinese, Pinyin, and English) are displayed.
This application is a testiment to the virtues of rapid development
using CamelBones (and obviously CPAN). It was thrown together in
under an hour!
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application
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requirements
- OS X 10.3
- Camelbones
If you just want to run CamelBones apps,
install the runtime framework.
In order to write your own Cocoa/Perl applications,
install the developer package.
- Lingua::ZH::CEDICT
Here's a quick overview in case you've never installed Perl
modules before. This may seem rather troublesome.
- You will probably need your
root account
enabled.
Here's how.
- Open a terminal (
Terminal in your
Applications -> Utilities folder).
- Type
sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install Lingua::ZH::CEDICT".
It will ask for a password. If it said something like
"sorry try again", "you aren't authorized..." or
anything to that effect, continue reading. Otherwise
skip to the next step.
Try typing su, then enter the password.
if it didn't spit out any errors, type
perl -MCPAN -e "install Lingua::ZH::CEDICT".
- Answer any questions the CPAN installation gives you.
Let it install any dependencies that are required.
- All done.
License and Copyright
CocoaPerlCEDICT is Copyright © 2004, Mark A. Stratman <mark@sporkstorms.org>
It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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