DS Dictionary: Free dictionary for the Nintendo DS

**anomalous_underdog** · April 29th, 2008, 01:29

Originally Posted by nannys_hedgehog

Your quote relies to on an older version of newdicts. Sesa intruduced the .aoi files thus getting rid of the limitations of the index files. I could actually run most of the dictionaries I tried (even wordnet).

damn! so where exactly can I get that new one?

edit:
so far I can see:
0.7r
0.7m
0.7p

and I heard there's a 0.7j, and an in-development 0.8 (both of which I can't find any links to download).

so among the 0.7, which one is the latest?

and does anybody know if Sesa released the source code of his work too?

**nannys_hedgehog** · April 29th, 2008, 08:31

Newest version of newdicts is 8pre8.
The old PALIB site is down, I updated the infos at the new palib site
http://forum.palib.info/index.php?to...18487#msg18487
At palib I included a link with the most recent version of newdicts and a collection of older versions if the newest one isn't working.

Sesa didn't release his source and will not do it until he thinks the program finished.

The best source regarding infos to newdicts is:
http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.p...extra=page%3D1

Sorry for highjacking this threat

**anomalous_underdog** · April 29th, 2008, 10:34

I see. I took a look at the source code, and I noticed that stardict's .idx files are similar to the lookup table in moby disk's dsdict file format. only that in mobydisk's implementation the "idx file" is already inside the dictionary file itself, which is in plaintext.

So it made me wonder. What was the limitation inside the old NewDictS that it had to make use of a .aoi file in the first place? How does the .aoi file solve that problem exactly (whatever it is)? The developer's thread is in Chinese, so I couldn't make much out of it.

I also noticed that the contents of a .aoi file (what does aoi stand for anyway?) is a sort of lookup table for the words inside the corresponding .idx files (and a .idx file, in turn, is a lookup table for the .dict file). I'm guessing this is for faster loading of the .idx file into memory? If that's so, does that mean all the contents of the .idx is loaded into memory?

I'm curious since in the future I'm planning on adding a dictionary lookup feature in the text editor program I'm making.

(I hope my post still counts as related to the topic in this thread)

**nannys_hedgehog** · April 29th, 2008, 10:45

I'm not sure if I understood it right.
My assumption:
Due to the limitations of the DS memory it was necessary to create the aoi file to have access to larger index files (idx).

For a better understanding: Sesa knows English. He is quite helpful and a very skilled coder. You can reach him via:
http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.p...extra=page%3D1
Use googletranslate for orientation (thats how I came to it).

**anomalous_underdog** · April 29th, 2008, 11:15

Originally Posted by nannys_hedgehog

I'm not sure if I understood it right.
My assumption:
Due to the limitations of the DS memory it was necessary to create the aoi file to have access to larger index files (idx).

For a better understanding: Sesa knows English. He is quite helpful and a very skilled coder. You can reach him via http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.p...extra=page%3D1.
Use googletranslate for orientation (thats how I came to it).

Oh, I see, thanks. The url you gave returns a 404 not found error though. This forum always seem to shorten the display of long urls with a ... in the middle.