Artha Portable 1.0.3 has been released. Artha is an offline thesaurus with quick access to lookups from any app via a hotkey. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
Artha is a handly offline thesaurus with support for regular expression lookups. It runs from the system tray in the background and can be accessed using a hotkey after highlighting a word in any app.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Artha Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Artha Portable is available for immediate download from the Artha Portable homepage. Get it today!
Comments
Thanks
Thanks for your work on this one, Ken. I updated your portablization code so that it works on every OS and won't collide with AbiWord's handling of Enchant dictionaries.
Thanks to you
For releasing it.
Artha was my first dev test, and it is good to see it get out there.
Cool!
Another very nice addition to PA.c!
Fantastic work everyone!
Unusable due to 100% CPU Usage
This looks nice but it causes 100% CPU usage on my system
Pentium 4
XP Pro SP3
Hope this can be remedied in future releases.
Ask Publisher
We don't make any changes that would spike the CPU, so you'd need to ask the publisher about that.
Keep in mind that on first run it indexes the included dictionary, which will spike the CPU for a bit. On my main dev box, it's about 5 seconds. In one of my VMs, it was about 30.
Download Details
says:
License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, GoldenDict: GPL)
which should read:
License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Artha: GPL)