neilperks said:
To answer your questions, no message or alert about clipboard monitor. Not sure what you mean by disabled in settings ?
Sorry for the slow reply.
By "disabled in settings" I meant turning the option for it off - I think I may have misinterpreted your message a bit. Anyway, we're seeing some of these symptoms here too now so hopefully we'll be able to get it working more smoothly for the next beta.
JimmyTheSaint said:
Merged multi-dictionary search: Maybe I'm missing something (I only have CC and PLC), but I experience no actual benefit from this feature. Regardless of what dictionary's selected, when I'm in an entry I could already check the other dictionaries by tapping on the dictionary switch. I don't see what the new feature is merging. I would think that "merge" means that the hit list would show hits from all dictionaries. I do see the hit list is different when "M" is chosen, but there's no apparent advantage to the different hit list. You still have to enter one of the hits, then manually cycle between dictionaries to see the other entries. Maybe give a more literal description of what this feature does?
The primary advantage is that for searches that tend to turn up a lot of results (toneless Pinyin, e.g.), you can see all of the matching words rather than just those from one dictionary. So if there's a particular meaning you're looking for, you don't have to go through a whole bunch of dictionaries to get to it. Actually useful even with just CC+PLC since there are quite a few words that are only in one or the other. It doesn't show results from all dictionaries because the goal is to show you a list of
unique words - you then tap on a particular word to access various dictionaries' take on it.
Merging entries on the definition screen is a whole different issue - it's doable too, and in fact should be cropping up to some extent in future betas / future finished releases, but we don't view the current system of switching between dictionaries as being quite as deficient in that screen as it is in search.
JimmyTheSaint said:
Quick Input Bar: Once again, I'm experiencing no actual benefit, so again I think I'm missing something. The only context in which I see the added buttons is at the "top" of the app. For example, to go into OCR, you normally have to touch settings, then "OCR." So having an "OCR" button available for quick input is supposed to save me one touch? What's the big deal that makes it worth devoting screen space to the quick input bar? Perhaps if I used "Rad" and "Vox" I'd appreciate this new feature more, but it seems to be a weak version of a true shortcut to the top of Pleco. What I really want is a shortcut to the top of the app from any context. For example, if I'm several levels deep in checking out a word's components, but I want to enter a new keyword, it's really annoying to have to hit the "back" button multiple times. You would think that a quick input bar would appear in this context, but I only seem to see the quick input bar when I'm already near the top. It only ever seems to save one touch.
Putting that bar in other screens is a very good idea, thanks! Might be a little tricky to work into some of them but we'll see what we can do. As far as its utility in searches, that one touch saved actually seems to make a difference for a
lot of people - we've had tons of requests for something like this on iOS in the last two years and we didn't have the free space at the bottom of the screen to accommodate it, but on Android we do and so we have. It's not just the one touch, either, it's the touch accuracy - it's tough to hit a HWR button in a row of buttons below the search field, you really have to aim carefully.
Supaiku said:
Document reader / bookmarks -
First, I would like to say this is a big selling point, as there is no other app that has this feature. (I often use wenlin on Windows).
- Is there some way to open documents with it? There doesn't seem to be any open a document button - is it just a clipboard reader?
- The "Choose a dictionary" Setting (long press on current dictionary) has a bug wherein the screen presents with no words (though the buttons for dictionaries do work).
- Can multi-dictionary search be added to this feature? - and an OPTION for a scrollable search window? (maybe it wouldn't be as good as it sounds?)
-What is bookmarks?
The opening-documents feature is part of the paid Document Reader add-on. (for which we should probably lower the price - we charge $10 for it on iOS because it also includes some stuff like a web browser that we don't currently offer on Android) Efficiently loading / reading and reliably bookmarking text files is a lot trickier than just displaying a bit of text from the clipboard (which doesn't really require any code we haven't already written for dictionary cross-referencing)
You can already search multiple dictionaries in the popup reader by tapping on the button in the corner of the "bubble." Supporting merged multi-dictionary search here doesn't really make sense because there's no list of results and in general there's only one word it might be anyway - we find the longest possible matching character sequence in any dictionary and lock on to / display that. So you're getting just about all of the multi-dictionary support you can get with that one button.
Bookmarks let you mark a place in a document and jump back to it later, again only in the paid module though.
