Re: Dictionaries
Re: Dictionaries
- Subject: Re: Dictionaries
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:42:09 -0500
You'll have to explain what you mean by a "two language dictionary."
Do you mean something like an English-to-Japanese dictionary? That
would involve language-analysis and database techniques beyond the
scope of the Cocoa application framework. Do a Google search for (for
instance) open-source dictionary projects
There is an NSDictionary class, but it's useful only for finding an
object through another, associated object. If you are not clear on
what this means, put off your project until you understand it.
"Dictionary" is a metaphor, not a literal human-language dictionary.
A baby-simple English-to-Japanese (to pick two examples) dictionary
might be built out of NSDictionary by using English words as key
strings, and Japanese words as value strings, but it will become
impractically slow if filled to the size of a useful human dictionary.
— F
On 16 Aug 2007, at 7:01 PM, Al Trivelpiece wrote:
I am a newby. I am having trouble making a two language
dictionary. I assume this is easy, but it is not obvious. Anyone
point me to some model code?
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