Dear friends,
I have been using Windows Mobile based Pleco contentedly for years, but lately circumstances forced me to change for Android Phone (HTC Desire Z A7272 (Vision), Android 2.3.7). The first fact I was fighting with was the swiftness which I was used to on my old WM Phone and which was gone with the new one. I thought it was because the HTC Desire is not really an up-to-date model, but later I realised most of my friends using Android based Pleco are encountering the same problem even with much faster and better devices than I have. Surprisingly, the iPhone version runs quite smoothly. I would love to see the WM Pleco immediate reactions on each tapping also in the Android version. Is there anything I can do for it with my device?
Nevertheless, the biggest problem, which causes me a lot of pain during my work are two features of Android version Pleco's Reader.
1) In the WM Pleco Reader, when I tapped a character, a definition came out. When I needed to see another definition, I just directly tapped another character and another definition appeared. Easy, fast, smart. Now, with the Android version, when you tap, the definition pops up (that is the same), but if you need another definition, you first need to tap once (anywhere on the screen) to hide the already popped up definition and only then to tap again (on some other character) to see the new definition. It might seem as a small issue, but I do a lot of translating and interpreting job nearly every day and I found out that it slows my work twice, as you have to tap twice as much. Together with the slow reactions of the Reader it really is a disaster.
Is there any setting I missed to fix this, i. e. to go from tap (definition) to tap (definition) directly without the need of hiding the pop-up first, as with the old WM version?
2) The pop-up bubble which comes out after tapping a character in an Android version appears next to the character I tapped, which means it comes out every time on a diferent place on the screen, according the actual place of the tapped character. In WM Pleco Reader the field for all definitions was docked to the bottom of the screen and it did not move irrespective of the actual position of the tapped character, so it did not interfere with the text around the tapped character. Android version pop-up covers the text around and its often annoying to remove the bubble by tapping to see the context and tap again to see the translation again when it is not really clear. Nowadays, the screens of mobile devices are much bigger then they was in the time of WM phones, so it might not be that big trouble just to split the screen to have the definition at one place in the lower half of the screen and the clear text in the upper half, with the adjustable splitting line (exactly as it was in WM version).
I guess I might seem picky, but now I always have to cary my Android phone as a "calling device" and also my old falling-apart WM Phone with old Pleco as it is way faster and comfortable to work with.
Please, is there any hidden setting which would solve my problems? Or are you planning to solve these in next versions of Pleco?
Sorry for so much writing. I just tried to make things as clear as possible.
Thank you very much for your reply and for your effort you made developing Pleco for us so far.
Regards,
Ondrej Varil
I have been using Windows Mobile based Pleco contentedly for years, but lately circumstances forced me to change for Android Phone (HTC Desire Z A7272 (Vision), Android 2.3.7). The first fact I was fighting with was the swiftness which I was used to on my old WM Phone and which was gone with the new one. I thought it was because the HTC Desire is not really an up-to-date model, but later I realised most of my friends using Android based Pleco are encountering the same problem even with much faster and better devices than I have. Surprisingly, the iPhone version runs quite smoothly. I would love to see the WM Pleco immediate reactions on each tapping also in the Android version. Is there anything I can do for it with my device?
Nevertheless, the biggest problem, which causes me a lot of pain during my work are two features of Android version Pleco's Reader.
1) In the WM Pleco Reader, when I tapped a character, a definition came out. When I needed to see another definition, I just directly tapped another character and another definition appeared. Easy, fast, smart. Now, with the Android version, when you tap, the definition pops up (that is the same), but if you need another definition, you first need to tap once (anywhere on the screen) to hide the already popped up definition and only then to tap again (on some other character) to see the new definition. It might seem as a small issue, but I do a lot of translating and interpreting job nearly every day and I found out that it slows my work twice, as you have to tap twice as much. Together with the slow reactions of the Reader it really is a disaster.
Is there any setting I missed to fix this, i. e. to go from tap (definition) to tap (definition) directly without the need of hiding the pop-up first, as with the old WM version?
2) The pop-up bubble which comes out after tapping a character in an Android version appears next to the character I tapped, which means it comes out every time on a diferent place on the screen, according the actual place of the tapped character. In WM Pleco Reader the field for all definitions was docked to the bottom of the screen and it did not move irrespective of the actual position of the tapped character, so it did not interfere with the text around the tapped character. Android version pop-up covers the text around and its often annoying to remove the bubble by tapping to see the context and tap again to see the translation again when it is not really clear. Nowadays, the screens of mobile devices are much bigger then they was in the time of WM phones, so it might not be that big trouble just to split the screen to have the definition at one place in the lower half of the screen and the clear text in the upper half, with the adjustable splitting line (exactly as it was in WM version).
I guess I might seem picky, but now I always have to cary my Android phone as a "calling device" and also my old falling-apart WM Phone with old Pleco as it is way faster and comfortable to work with.
Please, is there any hidden setting which would solve my problems? Or are you planning to solve these in next versions of Pleco?
Sorry for so much writing. I just tried to make things as clear as possible.
Thank you very much for your reply and for your effort you made developing Pleco for us so far.
Regards,
Ondrej Varil
