A portable dictionary will be good for people who doesn't know great English. Like me 
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You'd be online most of the time when your key is in, so wouldn't dictionary.com or one of the many side-by-side dictionaries be a good option?
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
http://www.dejudicibus.it/dizionario/
And not to mention if you had a lot of words the program is bound to be pretty large.
I perfer google's 'Define: term' instead of dictionary.com, mainly because google won't load of the adware and such. Unfortunitly, google doesn't always come up with stuff.
Wictionary is also good if you already have a sense of what the word means
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
You have to be online for this to work as well.
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/dict.shtml
Do you want a dictionary with translations or definitions?
How about http://www.ego4u.com/en/lingopad ?
Get it here:
http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php
The Yadabyte dictionary is gr8 and it only takes about 6mb
. I use it a lot and it even has example sentences and other things.
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I use the sage: http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html when I'm offline
and www.tfd.com when online.
One I use, which is portable is a german english free alternative.
It can be found here:
http://www.quickdic.de/
Regards
Thorsten
how do you keep the location of the dictionary permanent? At the moment, it writes to the registry where the dictionary is kept, plus if you have the pro version, it also writes the key there too.
Any way of saving this location to an ini or something similar with a relative path?
I have an early test version of WordWeb that has an install option to run as a proper portable app. If anyone is interested in testing please try
http://wordweb.info/users/wordweb_test.exe
(it will expire in a couple of months). Any feedback welcome.
Antony
Hi, Antony, nice to see you here! Did you get my "request" in my last reply to zeroin23? Would it be feasible to make just ANY dictionary show up under the X-Ref button? Maybe it can be done manually, through a registry tweak? As I mentioned, none of the Oxford dictionaries I got show up, also a few others (about seven), don't show there. A setting would be nice where one could just point to any .exe of any dictionary (not just word dictionaries). Any chance for a feature like that in the future? And thanks for your great WordWeb. I'm sure, you've made many people happy with it!
List of auto-detected dictionaries at
http://www.crossword-compiler.com/users/dicts/
(which includes several Oxford). I do have an interface for adding dictionaries, but currently it is only part of Crossword Compiler.
Thanks, Antony! From that list I only got the Longman Dictionary of Contemptible (or was that Contemporary?) English, and one Oxford version (got a few older versions still, from older CD ROMs in libraries).
Strangely, i-Finger (that offers the interface for the PONS dictionaries) shows up under the X-Ref button, although it's not listed. Have to explain that mostly, whenever possible, I use the dics "uninstalled" (just copied from a previous installation) which might perhaps be a reason that some don't appear under the X-Ref button. But sure would be nice if, some time in the future, one could just point to ANY dictionary one prefers (especially for foreigners who got their own special brands of dictionaries).
I put it on a USB stick and it runs perfectly. Very nice new icons, have to say!!
Can't make out what the meaning of the new bold entries (in the lower pane) is. Once, I saw that the button just above the close button was named "Replace". I closed WW, restarted it, and now the button is named "Copy" again. Can't reproduce the "Replace" phenomenon.
It's a pity this version will expire!
Added a bit later: sorry, for being slow, just found out how the "Replace" feature works. It replaces a highlighted word in a text editor with one of the new found words. It's there even in the previous versions. But it's all new to me! LOL
The bold items are 'core' common English vocabulary - words to be used if you want to be widely understood. This will be optional in final version.
Used your test installer and it worked without a problem.
Tried it on several other machines with only two problems. The first is when you are running from the tray windows minimize button should act the same as the "Close" buttom and minimize wordweb to the tray.
Since I did not have it listed in PStart menu yet I started it from explorer. Without thinking about it I started wordweb using wweb32.exe and wwnotray.exe both. Had two instances runing at the same time. Maybe when starting, the program should check to see if its already running and default to the active one. Had already put some words in and they disappeared. The new instance was right on top of the old. My mistake (red face).
Every one needs to remember that if wordweb or any other program like firefox from the usbdrive is in the tray you will not be able to safely remove the usb drive until they are closed.
Wordweb is great. Let us know when this new version is available.
Thank you
jeb
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hay actually for a dictionary like wordweb, I think it should cater for emergency removal of usb stick without corruptions. Caused in my view, wordweb should be just reading the dictionary, writing to USB should be really really rare and maybe some quick configuration data only. It shouldnt write frequently to USB stick.
more over USB stick have a limit of writing, and dieds after that.
Hay Antony, for the developer license, is there any for free software license, sort of open source stuff. I would like to use your developer interface, but me being a student, barely got enough money for 3 meals a day. yup
Any tips on how to safely handle USB removal welcome. It only writes the stick when the window is closing or changing an option. But the program file itself is on the stick, which may be much harder to handle on sudden drive removal.
mhmm bad news, I couldnt find much information about api for detecting event for removal of usb stuff. I was thinking if you could detect the source usb device that is run from, then if you listen for shutdown event, at least the program could prompt the user that changes will not be saved. (assumming the dictionary is already in memory)
for the sudden removal, I guessed there is no way to handle for it.
http://www.codecomments.com/archive290-2006-1-371117.html
http://portablefreeware.com/?c=18&sc=56
LingoPad looks pretty neat. Would be nice to link it both ways with WordWeb.
The other English dictionary look like they are all based on WordNet - like WordWeb. However WordWeb has a few thousand extra definitions and corrections, so may be more reliable (as well as being properly internationalized for non-US English).
Visit http://www.yadabyte.com/Yadabyte_Portables.php for Yadabyte Dictonary
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My recommendation is PortableStarDict. It checks words as you type and is extremely customizable.
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Good Idea
Apple Has a wiget of the dickionary Could that be of use (onley on the latest macs
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Morgan Stagg
does it crap your registry like foxit?
WordWeb 5 is now available and has an option to install to a USB stick. See
http://wordweb.info/free/