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- From: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: WordHound
- Message-ID: <20Pfcjj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 03:39:19 GMT
- References: <tim.711908108@parcplace.com>
- Sender: gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan)
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- tim@parcplace.com (Tim Rowledge) writes:
-
- > Well, I ftp'd Wordhound yesterday and I'd like to congratulate Ian on an
- > interesting and rather nice app.
- > Suggestions for the future:
- > I couldn't find antidisestablishmentarianism (:-) fatal mistake), which
- > lead me to wonder how to add words to the system.
- > Scrolling only works for drag-the-marker type scrolling; button scrolling
- > and paging do nothing. (On my A540 w/ROS3.07)
- > [some other things deleted...]
-
- Yes, I noticed the scrolling thing too. It's a really nice app though (gives
- you a taste of what the OED CD-ROM would be like, maybe?). By the way, the
- dictionary definitions are word-for-word those in my copy of
- Merriam-Webster; must have been the source?
-
- A really useful enhancement to the app at some stage might be hotlinking to
- Impression - as Impression 2.17 supports the as-yet-unreleased CC thesaurus
- (you double click on a word and it looks it up), it should be possible to
- duplicate this function. CC must use either wimp messages or their Impulse
- system to connect Impression and their thesaurus, so it must be fairly easy
- (famous last words...) to tap into? What do you think?
-
- Graham
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- Graham Allan
- Physics Dept, University of St.Andrews gta@st-andrews.ac.uk
-