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Still Alive!!!

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Wow embarrassing how old that last post was but alot has happened in the past year including moving back to America and a career change. My new career and job has sucked up all the my time but now I have settled in and can work on my side projects again.

Anyways, here’s the new. I will release a minor update of the plug-in so that it works with Firefox 3 this weekend. The next update will be huge and I will be devoting time to it regularly now so the update will come in a reasonable time frame.

I thank all the people who have downloaded, reviewed, commented and sent me feedback. I have had some good dialogs with many of you, and have a really good feel for what will be changed in the next version.

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Chinesepera-kun 0.2.2 Released

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Here are the changes:

  • More entries in the dictionary
  • Faster Search (needed because of bigger dictionary)
  • You can choose “Show More Results” in the options dialog to yield more results (often redundant, OFF by default).
  • Press when over a character to display character information about it.(very much thanks to Imron Alston for compiling the info from the huge file)
  • Now works with Simplified AND Traditional characters, and will detect automatically, so no longer need to choose anything in the options dialog.
  • Fixed newline character not being outputted upon export
  • Made the accidental exporting when trying to copy and hitting a little better, but still not perfect

Enjoy! https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3349/

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Chinesepera-kun’s Next Release…

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I have been recently working on updating the dictionary and search for better results. I have to to a place now where there are good results and am about done and ready to release. This will the be the last update for a long time so if there is anything anyone wants changed/included please leave a comment. Main changes are:

  • Rewrote search code so it should be about twice as fast now.
  • Updated the dictionary file, so now theres more entries (hence the faster search was needed).
  • Traditional characters are now supported in browsing and exporting, just choose traditional hanzi in the options menu.(simplified is the default)
  • Added the option to see more results displayed, by choosing “Show More Results” in the options dialog. (off by default)
  • Stripped out the japanese kanji related info.
  • In place of that japanese related info window, if you press it will magnify the hanzi.

Some people have complained about the japanese kanji window being removed, I dont know why, most the information was irrelevant, but if its something everyone wants back I will put it back..leave a comment.

OR if you want the same thing with chinese character information there is the UNIHAN dictionary which holds that information but is 30MB in size…so it would make the extension huge. It contains alot of information that has to do with Japanese and Korean so if someone wants to make a processed version of that file with only the chinese info cherry picked, and sent it to me I can implement that. Or I could try to make it as an optional add-on (much like the names dictionary for the japanese version). Up to you…I dont personally need so I dont plan to add it.

Any other feature requests ?? Leave a comment.

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