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Clemenseken · 05-10-2008, 04:54 PM

@spooky69:

Hi!
As I mentioned in my very first post to this thread, this was meant to be a simple dictionary launcher.
I am not a programmer - and do not plan to buy or sell Yahoo or Microsoft, either.

My aim is not to be better than the Oxford Concise Dictionary or the like.
I just felt the lack of any dictionary for my little Sony-500. That's why I took the trouble to find ways to get a decent translation from other languages on this device.

I fully understand your wishes, demands and suggestions. One or two of these also came to my mind but were not that important at the moment to give them first priority.
There are other activities in my day-to-day life apart from delivering input for this project.

For example I am about to finish a game for my Sony (somewhat similar to Sudoku). That has mainly been on my mind for the last 2 weeks - when doing any programming at all ...

I probably will not ask igorsk for help on the improvements you suggested in your last two posts (I did test functions like "match" or "exec" with "regExp" - but there is no documentation for javascript on Sonys - so it's quite some trouble to get any progress. I am still trying...)
"match" (in a String) actually runs a lot faster that "readLine", I admit. But it does not work with files significally larger than one MB. There may be natural limits to "String" or I missed some detail required.

But anyway I don't mind anybody using my code so far as base for an application of their own.
So there's still hope for you: Just go ahead!

It may take another week or two until I have results for my tests. It might take a little longer, then...
(

I will ask my product marketing team next time what they think I should promise or announce...)

05-10-2008, 04:54 PM	#43
Clemenseken eWriter Posts: 267 Karma: 175607 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Frankfurt, FRG Device: PB-IQ / Sony PRS-500	Wishes, demands and suggestions @spooky69: Hi! As I mentioned in my very first post to this thread, this was meant to be a simple dictionary launcher. I am not a programmer - and do not plan to buy or sell Yahoo or Microsoft, either. My aim is not to be better than the Oxford Concise Dictionary or the like. I just felt the lack of any dictionary for my little Sony-500. That's why I took the trouble to find ways to get a decent translation from other languages on this device. I fully understand your wishes, demands and suggestions. One or two of these also came to my mind but were not that important at the moment to give them first priority. There are other activities in my day-to-day life apart from delivering input for this project. For example I am about to finish a game for my Sony (somewhat similar to Sudoku). That has mainly been on my mind for the last 2 weeks - when doing any programming at all ... I probably will not ask igorsk for help on the improvements you suggested in your last two posts (I did test functions like "match" or "exec" with "regExp" - but there is no documentation for javascript on Sonys - so it's quite some trouble to get any progress. I am still trying...) "match" (in a String) actually runs a lot faster that "readLine", I admit. But it does not work with files significally larger than one MB. There may be natural limits to "String" or I missed some detail required. But anyway I don't mind anybody using my code so far as base for an application of their own. So there's still hope for you: Just go ahead! It may take another week or two until I have results for my tests. It might take a little longer, then... ( I will ask my product marketing team next time what they think I should promise or announce...)