Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 21:31:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199708070231.VAA28734@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: george.foot@merton.oxford.ac.uk Sender: Lojban list Comments: Authenticated sender is From: George Foot Subject: Re: Software update X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1271 X-From-Space-Date: Wed Aug 6 21:32:04 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU Chris wrote: > If you don't like messing with buggy alpha software, I > suggest waiting a few days until I have verified that > someone else can get it to work. It seems to work fine for the first word I look up, but when I retype a second word in any way (erasing the first word, or starting a new line, or using File-New to clear the buffer) and try to look it up I get an error ("Object variable not Set") and the program terminates itself. Suggestion for improvement: Perhaps you could make a feature where it only picks out whole word matches. For example, typing `red' and doing an English->gismu lookup gives many matches when `red' is part of another word, for example `compaRED'. This might be more awkward to implement; if so don't bother - it's very useful as it is :) Also, is it possible to make the definition text selectable for copy/paste? Then if, for example, you were writing in Lojban but didn't know a word, you could write in the English word, look it up, select the portion of the description you want, and paste that in. Maybe this is excessive laziness though :) I think this is a great program which could prove to be very useful - thank you very much for providing it. -- George Foot (george.foot@merton.ox.ac.uk) Merton College, Oxford.