Edit Mode

To switch to the Edit Mode click the Editing >> button. A new section will appear. To return to the Dictionary Mode press <Esc> or click the << Editing button. You can edit entries not only on the Dictionary tab, but on the Found tab as well: you can edit found entries.

There is a file field below the search field. Here the name of the current assigned file is shown, which will be played or opened if you press button on the toolbar. To assign a new file click Edit button to edit the current entry and click button near this field to choose a file. It is desirable that you assign files which are in the same folder or subfolder, where the dictionary is. This provides an easy way for you to copy your dictionary to another computer.
 
You can use the file field not only for storing the file name to a sound or video file. You can type anything into the file field. For example, if you make your dictionary from a book dictionary you can type here the number of the page where this entry can be found. Note, that you will not be able to search in this field.

 

Edit Mode buttons

Edit Edit the current entry. The original word field will get the focus. To go to the next field press <Tab> or click in it. After making changes click the Update button to update the current entry. To decline changes press <Esc> or click the Cancel button. The Add New button will get the focus.

When you click this button a new toolbar will appear.
Add New Add a new entry. After you have entered an original word and the translation for it (you can also enter a transcription), click the Update button to add the entry. If you don't want to add this entry press <Esc> or click the Cancel button. The Add New button will get the focus. So if you want to add one more entry just press <Enter>.

When you click this button a new toolbar will appear.
Delete Delete the current Entry. In the appeared message box click Yes to delete the entry or click No to cancel the operation.
Copy To/ Copy All To Copy the current entry/all entries to the vocabulary, chosen in the pull-down list on the right side of this button. You can also copy the current entry by clicking the Copy to > button on the toolbar. If you rest the mouse pointer on the Copy to > button of the toolbar a tooltip will be shown which prompts where the entry will be copied.

If the destination vocabulary consists the copied entry you will be asked to replace it with the current one or not. If you are not sure the entry in the destination vocabulary should be replaced click the Cancel button. The original word will be placed into the search field so that you can open the destination vocabulary and see its translation there (searching is automatically performed when the vocabulary is opened). After checking you can return to the source vocabulary and either copy the entry again or to work with it further.

Copy this vocabulary to ... Copy the current vocabulary to any dictionary of Pop-Up Dictionary format. The open dialog box will appear, where you should choose the dictionary you want the current vocabulary will be copied to.

Note, that you can't copy a vocabulary if there is a vocabulary with the same name in the destination dictionary. So you can't to copy General vocabulary to any dictionary, for example. For this:

  1. Create a temporary vocabulary
  2. Copy all the entries from General vocabulary, for example, to this new vocabulary.
  3. Copy this new vocabulary to any dictionary you like.
  4. Delete this temporary vocabulary
Move To/ Move All Move the current entry/all entries from the current vocabulary to the vocabulary, chosen in the pull-down list on the right side of this button.

 

Vocabulary buttons

Add New Add a new vocabulary. Before clicking this button, type the name of a new vocabulary in the pull-down list above this button. You will be asked whether to use more than 255 symbols for the translation field (the dictionary will be larger) or not (it's more efficient, but the size of the translation field will be limited).
Delete Delete the chosen vocabulary. Before clicking it choose a vocabulary from the pull-down list above this button. You will be asked to move the entries of this vocabulary to the General vocabulary before deleting it. Click Yes to move all the entries before deleting the vocabulary, click No to delete the vocabulary without moving entries or click Cancel to cancel the operation. You cannot delete the General vocabulary.

 

Formatting an Entry

You can format entries. For this you should place an opening tag before the word, you want to format, and a closing tag after it.

You can use the buttons of the new appeared toolbar for adding/removing tags or use hot keys for this.

Make the selected text a reference (adds <<, >> tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.

You can define the color of references on the Fields tab of the Options dialog box.

The references can be links to websites (they are browsed in the translation field if clicked), to graphic files on a hard disk (e.g. <<img\1.jpg>>) or on a website (e.g. <<http://www.site.com/1.jpg>>), they are shown in the field (see a sample).
Make the selected text a feature (adds [c], [/c] tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.

You can define the color of features on the Fields tab of the Options dialog box.

You can add tooltips for Features. In the ini-file of the dictionary under the General section add items "FeatureX=S1 - S2", where:

X is number (1-1000);

S1 is the name of feature, which you have marked with tags [c] and [/c];

S2 is the text, that will be displayed in the tooltip, when you hold the mouse cursor over the feature.
Make the selected text bold (adds [b], [/b] tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.
Make the selected text italic (adds [i], [/i] tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.
Underline the selected text (adds [u], [/u] tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.
Make the selected text superscript (adds [sup], [/sup] tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.
Make the selected text subscript (adds [sub], [/sub] tags). If the selection has already these tags, it will remove them.

Other tags:

[l], [/l] The paragraph between these tags becomes aligned to the left and the text direction is left to right, not depending on the text direction of the entry.
[r], [/r] The paragraph between these tags becomes aligned to the right and the text direction is right to left, not depending on the text direction of the entry.

You can use also HTML-code in the translation field to enter tables, lists, pictures, etc. It will be correctly displayed in it:

Remove all carriage returns from the HTML-code before pasting it into the translation field.

It is not recommended to use a complicated HTML-code in the translation field as it will be shown as a HTML-code in the Found field. It is better to use Pop-Up Dictionary tags and to use HTML-code only when there are no the corresponding formatting tags in Pop-Up Dictionary.

To reduce the dictionary size an HTML-template can be used if all entries have the same format.