柯賜海 Posted July 14, 2004 at 11:46 AM Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 at 11:46 AM I'm living in Taiwan and I have found the 'Dr Eye' translation to be of great assistance in improving my reading. I'm looking for something similar for simplified chinese as my program can't seem to read it..perhaps due to my still using an English system. I need something that can give a pinyin reading and a translation of a word as I move my cursor over it. Someone mentioned one but I can remember it's name..金something. Thanks also...bittorrent links would be nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted July 14, 2004 at 11:52 AM Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 at 11:52 AM Are you talking about 金山詞霸.net? I haven't really used it so I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but it's the only thing with a name that starts with 金 that I know of that may suit your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunyata Posted July 14, 2004 at 01:50 PM Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 at 01:50 PM also...bittorrent links would be nice Sorry, not allowed in here... read the terms and conditions... it feels nice to play Roddy's part... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted November 19, 2004 at 01:41 AM Report Share Posted November 19, 2004 at 01:41 AM Sorry for not being able to answer your question - im writing with a question fo my own are you using Dr Eye on an English based Windows? Is it XP? Cause its bloody fantastic, i know, but I've heard that it only works on a Chinese based system thanks for your help: travis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted November 24, 2004 at 05:44 PM Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 at 05:44 PM I did some looking into this a while ago while developing a small Windows dictionary application. The issue is that Windows basically lacks support for cross-program mouseover. The only API that can handle it is obscure, difficult to implement and largely undocumented. I have no idea how Dr. Eye does what they do -- but it isn't trivial. Most programs offering mouseover annotation require you to load the text into an environment they control. For offline Word documents and other files Kingsoft (金山) is probably what you want. Mainland academic networks are awash with copies and there are FTP search engines as well if you want to try before buying. For online material you have more options. Differences boil down to layout, dictionary size and source, and organization and presentation of data. Micah Sittig used to have a java-driven annotator (I think), but I can't seem to find it online now. Another nicely designed one sits on the CEDICT/Unihan databases: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict_welcome.php I routinely flog my own project too, online at the address below. It has the largest database I know of, and is downloadable and quite fast under Linux. It can be tricky to install though. Many pinyin entries have also been computer generated. Errors are fixed as I or others notice them. Users can also add words, edit definitions, yadda, yadda, yadda.... http://www.adsotrans.com FWIW, I'd also love to have software with this feature. And if anyone reading can provide code to grab mouseover text using Visual Basic I'd be happy enough to provide a dictionary app that supports this feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sortaz Posted November 24, 2004 at 07:50 PM Report Share Posted November 24, 2004 at 07:50 PM This program provides a popupfunction for both japanese and chinese (simplified and traditional characters) http://wakan.manga.cz/ I havn't used it too much myself but, but I've tried it in several programs and it seems to work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
柯賜海 Posted November 29, 2004 at 04:51 AM Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 at 04:51 AM www.Babylon.com This is much better than Doctor Eye- and it can be used for any language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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