Hello
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post for this, but I've searched the forum for answers but couldn't find any. I wanted to try the Beta4 since I'm really looking forward to the 2.0 and who knows, maybe I can help a little as well, since I have a lot of free time and will be brushing up my chinese (actually re-learning it =) ) with the help of plecodict.
anyhow, to my question: I have the 1.0 running well on my HTC 3500 (Artemis) WM 6.1 (no touchflo). But for some reason many things of the Beta don't work. I might have installed it incorrectly, I'd be pleased if someone could point me to a post I've missed in my searches or just give me a hint.
I've put all the extracted files in one folder (Pleco) on my storage card, NO SUBFOLDERS! And that DLL plus the exe into my phone memory program files/Pleco. I did unlock it and got the message announcing that. For now, the stroke order and the audio part doesn't work. How do I get that to work?
Now, when I lookup a character, let's say "hào":
- when I click on Modules > Character Info... nothing happens, but when I click on the character in the dictionary AFTER clicking on that character info option, the character info comes up
- in the character info "detail" tab, I only see the character on the upper left corner in a box and have 3 EMPTY dropdown menus (2 in the upper right corner and 1 below the character box, below the middle of the screen there is a "show selected details"-button, and on the right side there is scrollbar, that is overlapped 3 times by white bars. These bars seem to be between those dropdown menus and the button. Therefore, always on the hight of a button or dropdown menu to the left of the scrollbar, the scrollbar is visible. There is a scrollbutton in it that can be moved, also behind those white stripes.
- in the character info "Stroke Order" tab, I only see something in the right 1/3 of the screen. In the first column there are 5 buttons (from top to bottom: 'skip to beginning', back, play, forward, 'skip to end'). To the right of that, at about the same hight as those 5 buttons it sais "Radical:", empty box, "0/0", "Speed:", empty dropdown, checkbox "outline", checkbox "digits". The rest of the screen is blank, no boxes or anything.
- in the character info "Compounds" everything seems to work fine. Two boxes with words in it, titled with "Words starting with this character:" and "Other words containing this character:"
Flashcard section:
I imported my lists that I exported from plecodict 1.0, those get a little messed up, which I saw was discussed somewhere in this thread. Pleco dict exports from ZDT altough seem to work fine (if anyone would care for any, I can upload some, but you'll find those online).
Well, with the good import all works fine. I just don't get the stroke order to work and audio of course. But I still have some questions:
- Doing "Self-scored" with reading and writing enabled, there is a small field on the bottom one can freewrite into. But it is rather small, about half the height of the "exit" and "show" buttons and the field's upper line is thicker (4 pixels, the other lines are all 1pxl) with two white, 2 pixel wide dents in the center, those are 12pixels apart and 3 pixels deep (leaving a boxline of 1 pixel with). Don't know if that's supposed to be like that. (I just found out that one can enlarge that box by dragging that line upwards, "not a bug, a feature" I guess ;-) )
- Doing "Free answer" with reading, it doesn't score right, does not recognize a correct answer, actually never got a correct one, even though I did it right. Also, clicking on a field one has already put an answer in, and trying to correct it (say I had a 2 and think it was a 4, it does not replace but adds it, I get 24. Didn't figure out how to correct/delete an entry.
- Doing "Tone practice", which I guess does about the same, it does correct as it should.
Well, I gotta say, this flashcard application is just awesome! Great job, very well done!! Can't wait for the final version. But since so much is working already, I guess I'll rather use the Beta than the 1.03 =D. I really wonder how the audio works and would like to get that running as well.
So I guess back to my main problems: Getting stroke order and audio to work. Did I miss a post while searching? Something about buying/unlocking was mentioned
somewhere. How/where can I do that?
Thanks a lot, I guess I wrote a lot more than I wanted. Keep it up! I'll be telling everybody in my class to look into this! =)
Edit: I guess I found how to order the stroke order and audio addon. So that will work with the final version too?