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kguil · 12-10-2012, 10:54 AM

Thanks guys. I really appreciate your support!

@Faterson, I spent some time researching the dictionaries idea. Some findings:

The StarDict project is defunct. The old sourceforge page for StarDict also says that there were/are some copyright infringement issues with the dictionaries. There are alternatives, but I need to investigate more.
There doesn't seem to be a way to programmatically instruct iOS to launch the dictionary for a specific language. The dictionary will only show for your locale (language in iPad's settings). I stand to be corrected. Anyone know better?

This is a quick idea I have: Offer an option to either use iOS's built-in dictionary (offline), or fall back to a specific language version of Wiktionary. Of course, this is sub-optimal because the dictionary wouldn't be available offline. On the other hand, (in my limited search so far) I can't find a good supported offline dictionary engine. Short of writing my own, I'd like to minimise my dependencies on third-party libraries. Should they stop being supported (like the iOS non-ARC to ARC transition) I'd have a serious problem.

What do you think? Is Wiktionary integration acceptable?

12-10-2012, 10:54 AM	#127
kguil Addict Posts: 1,215 Karma: 1836966 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Malta, Europe Device: Marvin for iOS	Thanks guys. I really appreciate your support! @Faterson, I spent some time researching the dictionaries idea. Some findings: The StarDict project is defunct. The old sourceforge page for StarDict also says that there were/are some copyright infringement issues with the dictionaries. There are alternatives, but I need to investigate more. There doesn't seem to be a way to programmatically instruct iOS to launch the dictionary for a specific language. The dictionary will only show for your locale (language in iPad's settings). I stand to be corrected. Anyone know better? This is a quick idea I have: Offer an option to either use iOS's built-in dictionary (offline), or fall back to a specific language version of Wiktionary. Of course, this is sub-optimal because the dictionary wouldn't be available offline. On the other hand, (in my limited search so far) I can't find a good supported offline dictionary engine. Short of writing my own, I'd like to minimise my dependencies on third-party libraries. Should they stop being supported (like the iOS non-ARC to ARC transition) I'd have a serious problem. What do you think? Is Wiktionary integration acceptable?