One of the benefits of being stuck at home recovering from Dengue Fever is I feel like it’s ok to splurge a bit on stuff that I want to do, rather than have to do. For example, while we have always put a lot of… Read More
Pictures in Dictionary Entries
I’ve been working on simple support for pictures in WeSay: When you choose a picture, it is copied to the pictures sub-folder of the WeSay folder. So everything stays together. Some more things to do someday:… Read More
We’ve updated the WeSay Roadmap, here. Primarily, we’re aiming to finish up Relations (which support sub-entries), Sorting, and Internationalization. We hope the sorting is simple for the 80% of folks who need nothing more than what you can do in Toolbox, but extensible for those languages which… Read More
It’s really satisfying to arrive at a stage where we can put some of the icing on the WeSay cake. Our next build will include a feature we’ve talked about from day one. This lets a user send his project data to his adviser without any training in: Finding the… Read More
Starting with this next release, you or a friendly programmer can create an small .Net dll, add it to the WeSay program directory, and then immediately use it within WeSay and the WeSay Configuration Tool. These addins tell WeSay what icon to use, their name, and short description. Here’s a… Read More
NOTE:The original WeSay Configuration screencast links are no longer available. …of having to listen to your own recorded voice for hours on end. That’s what I’m going through for you, folks, as I put together a series of instructional videos for this Preview version of WeSay. Here’s what I’ve… Read More
We’re just shy of our first “alpha” (which we’re going to call a “preview”). This means we have to catch up on doing some of those non-coding things like documentation, release notes, etc. Here’s a pretty extensive, though not yet complete list of what we’ve done and have left to… Read More
Though it was stranded by our university closing down for Thai New Year, Alan delivered our OLPC test machine yesterday. It may look like a toy, but it feels very substantial. Heavy, even. I think Kinesis keyboards like mine shown here… Read More
Collect Words by Semantic Domains
It’s been awhile since we’ve posted but that does not mean we haven’t been active. I’ve added a new task to collect words by semantic domains. There is substantial evidence that we organize words in our minds in a network of relationships. Words tend to cluster in groups that we… Read More
Any dictionary program needs to help the user be consistent when entering field that have a closed set of values, e.g. parts of speech. FLEx calls these Possibility Lists, Toolbox has Range Sets. WeSay offers is something somewhat different, and yet another name (sorry). Read More