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Re: [lojban-beginners] iOS/Android app?
Lookup just looks for the English word or Lojban word, there is also meant to be a lujvo parser there but I don't think it's "ready" for use. (Anyone care to help me with Ragel?)While keyword search does a search on most of the contents, it's basically an index search, it only supports and (implicitly) at the moment.
Text search is basically a simple grep on the rasfi and gismu text files, I included it as people like to search for exact phrases ect, however as I don't have an iPhone I couldn't test if there were any bundling* problems.
I wouldn't mind adding a jbovlaste and jbofi'e option to it, but those would be a simple web lookup.
I am a little worried about speed, I made the application using the "coredata" system, which is a wrapper around Sqlite, with a bit of extras which I think apple added for speed. However I think it just bloats the sql file and
I am thinking of adding a Selma'o explorer and some other things like that but I would really like a list of descriptions for the selma'o before I do that. Also, I have said this before on g+, but the TXT format is getting really tiresome. :P I say XML with compilers to make it human readable. :P Which will allow us to put more "value add" features like examples and more gloss words.
Do you have a suggestion as to what I should use for the search button? I thought that as well but was sort of at a loss on what I could do.
* Seems it's apples name for something like the Slackware model package.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Paul
<mrpauw@gmail.com> wrote:
Wahoo! Just installed it on iOS 5.0.1 (9A405) on an iPhone 4.
The "Lookup" and "Keyword" searches are OK (no indication what the difference is) but the "Text search" feature doesn't seem to work, and the search button being a little arrow in the main screen's title is unintuitive, other than that it's a great start and I like it, thanks :-)
kozmikreis
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Sent from my iPhoneFYI it is up in the app store. I don't actually own an iPhone so let me know if it works or if there is any problems:
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:54 PM, CosmicRay
<cr@cosmicray.co.uk> wrote:
I'd like to see an enhanced version (see my message of a few minutes ago), but preferably not at the cost of other formats losing out, we'd want to retain maximum compatibility and accessibility across all formats.
You are correct the CLL can be exported to PDF which can be read by iPads etc. The best case I can see for using the iBooks format is not so much the special features but being able to publish it to and therefore the visibility and searchability of the CLL within the iTunes and iBooks stores. This allows for the less technically adept to find and download the content as well as share bookmarks across devices and whatever else that a PDF alone doesn't.
The same should be done for other open and closed book stores in my opinion :-)
kozmikreis
On 28 Jan 2012, at 11:34, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> I was addressing specifically the things you were talking about /adding to/ the proposed iBook (the "interactive multiple-choice questions, audio clips, video clips, and other learning aids") that would /not/ be available in any other format.
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> iPads can read pdfs. The CLL can be exported to pdf (IIRC). If you're not wanting to use the "special" featuresof iBooks, there's no need to make an iBook CLL. If you are, then you're making something that will /not/ be available by any other means.
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