S60Dict for 3rd Edition
Feb 26th, 2007 by yohanes
Update: Certificate has been updated (in the previous version you will get Certificate Expired message).
I have used the Dictionary program for a while, but I think the application is not enough for me. Some limitations that I dont like are: only one dictionary, there is no listing of adjacent words if I mistyped the word that I looked for, from the definition page, I have to press two keys to go back to the main page.
I like S60Dict, an offline dictionary engine for DICT databases. It has all the features that I want, both bilingual (available from http://freedict.org) and definition dictionaries (including English definition) can be downloaded freely.
Unfortunately S60Dict is only available for 1st and 2nd edition devices. But this application is open source, so I decided to port this application to 3rd edition. It only took me a couple of hours to do it, and I think the result is OK (it can adjust orientation and screen size changes, it uses SVG for the icon, etc). I have only tested this application on Nokia E61 and on emulator, please tell me if you found a problem on other mobile phone models.
Source code for the ported S60Dict can be downloaded here and here is the Symbian installer (SIS file) file: s60dict_s60_3rd.SIS
20 Responses to “S60Dict for 3rd Edition”
Hello! Great program, but how do i find the “path”? I have transfered dictonery to Memoerycard slot: dictioneries/swe-eng.dict.dz and dictioneries/swe-eng.index. How do i know the path to the memory card?
Humble regards Mike.
Files on the phone memory has the path C:\data\FOLDERNAME (unless you use special programs, directories/folders C:\ is not visible). The path for the files on the memory card starts with E:\, so the path for your files is E:\dictioneries.
To make it simple, you can just put the program on memory card (install to memory card), and the dictionaries at a folder named “Dict” on your memory card, so you wont have to change the path at all.
Thanks a lot!! It working perfectly, but it seems that dictionery at freedict.org is only “one-way” translating
Hi Mike,
Yes, the dictionaries are one-way translating. That is the limitation of the DICT format. For translating a language both-ways you need to install two dictionaries (one for each direction).
Can this be installed on S60 2nd Edition
hello,
hi I just wanna ask you how to make ’.dz’ and ’.index’ file because I want to make indonesian-english and english-indonesian database for this dictionary. thanks
regards,
ignatius
Hi,
I wonder, is it possible to make the font customizable?
Presently I see just the standard font, which is
1. Uncomfortably small, and
2. Is pretty poor (WGL4?).
I’ve installed a richer font (palatino linotype) in my E61, which has
the full IPA character set for the phonetic transcription, the
“extended Greek” subrange etc; I can see it in MobiPocket — but I
cannot read the transcriptions in my dict data.
Probably that could be done with the rss file; yet I guess that
require some sort of SDK to define and compile the definition of the
font resource?
—
Sergio
Yohanes,
Hello ! i am not able to install your S60Dict in my Nokia E61 as it says certificate not accepted contact programmer
kindly help.
promod Mahapatra
Hello,
You should enable signed software instalation:
See the first step at this URL:
http://compactbyte.com/symbianbible/installv3.html
Hi,
I tried to load the S60Dict reader + downloaded freedict-eng-rus-0.2.dic.dz to try out but I just could not find the dict despite trying different paths. Do you have any suggestions how I can get to read this?
I am using a E61i phone.
Hi! Thanks for porting this program to the S60 3rd edition!
I have a little question if you don’t mind: I installed this app onto my Nokia N73 and the installed application appeared without any icon in the menu, just a caption saying “S60Dict”. The problem is it messes up with task switching menu – it goes crazy because it cannot display an icon for S60Dict and switches to random application once an item is selected if S60Dict is running. Thus in typical scenario I have to exit S60Dict immediately after looking up a word or two, then switch to reader, encounter a new word, fire S60Dict again, look it up, exit, etc.
The question is: how can I change the icon of S60Dict?
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Please help me to understand how to download& prepare dictionaries from http://freedict.org; despite my experience, I didn’t suceeded!
In any case: Thanks
Any idea to see langdao chinese english on a n95 8 giga european version.
Regards
Hi Yohanes. Perhaps a cheeky question, but as you mentioned in the S60Bible site that your wife now has the bought Nokia 5800, could you update this s60Dict for that? It probably mainly concerns the touch screen interfacing. Thanks for app!
Hello,
Can I used this on my Nokia 5800?
I installed file SIS, extract Polsko-Amerykanski.dict.dz and Polsko-Amerikanski.index at E/Dictionaries/PL-US.How can I write my path? I wrote “E:\Dictionanies\PL-US but it wrote no dict? Help me!
Thanks a lot for this really useful software. It’s because of projects like this that I still have faith in Nokia’s potential.
Please. I have some stardict dictionaries that have the file. Idx, not. Index. The application does not recognize s60dict with dictionaries. Idx. You can convert. Idx to. Index. Att
I need a version of s60dict for S60v5 (Nokia 5800), because the touch does not work and have many great are not displayed on the screen completely. I thank you for the excellent work and I’m waiting.