DicEngRus version 1.7

1. Description

DicEngRus is the biggest and the most comprehensive English-Russian dictionary for Palm compatible pocket computers. Features: convenient user interface with minimum number of taps required to look up words high database compression ratio quick word lookup two main dictionaries additional dictionaries are available comprehensive translations with many different word meanings utility to create custom dictionaries support for multiple dictionaries for any language (not only for English-Russian) Main dictionaries: English/Russian - Mueller7tr Mueller's English-Russian dictionary 7th edition, 46000 words, with transcriptions, occupies 2373K of memory. English/Russian - Mueller24 Mueller's English-Russian dictionary 24th edition, 67000 words, without transcriptions, occupies 2828K of memory. Additional dictionaries: English/Russian - Lingvo6 small English-Russian dictionary from Lingvo6, 83700 words, occupies 2947K of memory. English/Estonian - Indrek Hein English/Estonian dictionary by Indrek Hein, 64000 words, 795K of memory, contributed by Priit Mustasaar (email, web page)

2. News

February 15 - source code is released under GPL

3. Download

The latest version of DicEngRus is 1.7 (includes Mueller's English-Russian dictionary 7th edition, 46000 words):
dicengrus.zip (file size - 2652K)

You can also download additional dictionaries:

• English/Russian - Mueller24 [mueller24.zip] (file size - 2826K)
• English/Russian - Lingvo6 small [lingvo6sm.zip] (file size - 2945K)
• English/Estonian - Indrek Hein [engest.pdb] (file size - 794K)

Download source code of DicEngRus (file size - 2959K) - DicEngRus_Source.zip

4. Development history

1/19/2002 version 1.7

• Implemented a feature to look up a word from clipboard on start up. Very convenient when using with a reader program that supports text selection (AportisDoc for example).
• Added edit menu, implemented copy/paste commands.
• Implemented confirmation dialog when deleting a dictionary.

12/28/2001 version 1.6

• Added support for multiple dictionaries

12/08/2001 version 1.5

• Improved compression technology - word database size is reduced by 25%
• Dictionary Info dialog

07/28/2001 version 1.4

• Fixed bugs with displaying word list on PalmOS 3.0 - 3.3, 4.0
• Included an utility to create custom dictionaries

07/27/2001 version 1.3

• Can translate a word by entering "new line" stroke
• Can translate a word by tapping it in the list
• Can scroll in both list and translation modes with hardware scrolling buttons
• When typing a word in translation mode, automatically switches to the list mode
• dic_lg is no longer available

06/18/2001 version 1.2

• Fixed bug when selection wasn't set correctly after scrolling
• Added two new dictionaries (dic_m7, dic_m24)

05/15/2001 version 1.1

• Fixed some bugs

04/28/2001 version 1.0

• Initial revision