QDict

While I was playing with QT, I realised that I use Dict from console often,
and a more readable output would be nice. I know that there are plenty of GUIs
for Dict out there already (even under the name of qdict!), but for a QT
sandbox, this seemed fine.

The main difficulty is to parse the output of Dict with regular expressions.
I decided to parse it line-by-line which makes difficult to decide where does
a sublist or a quotation end for example. Unfortunatelly the formatting of Dict
heavily relies on the number of spaces before each line.

There are some basic unit tests for the parsing functions, since qdict,
without the GUI, is more or less a bunch of functions around QRegExp objects.

Features

• Completer-aided input combobox.
• Html (formatted) layout for better readablility.
• Parses list, sublist, enumerated lists, sources, links, databases.
• Links in the layout can be followed.
• Get the text content of clipboard at startup to the input field.
• Different search strategies
• If there are no definitions, external links are offered (google, wordreference, etc)
• Small, and quick.

• Support for the syntax of other databases.
• Navigation buttons for the history (home, forward, backward)

• The index file of gcide is hardcoded (works for gentoo and ubuntu)
• Links chopped to half at the end of line not work.

Download

Build

Compile & run:

qdict needs dict and the gcide DB. At gentoo it's app-dicts/dictd-web1913, and dict-gcide under ubuntu.

qmake qdict.pro; make; ./qdict

Unittesting:

qmake qdict_unittest.pro; make; ./qdict_unittest

Screenshots:

Translating "cat"

No definitions found

Different search strategies

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