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Wednesday, April 14, 2004

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Dictionary Tool update and source

I've been meaning to get to this for a long time, and finally did.

I created a GDN Workspace for Dictionary Tool for Tablet PC. This is a Tablet PC PowerToy that I released last year. It was the first .NET code I had ever written and a few months ago I went back in there and fixed a few bugs, and ported it to C# from VB.NET. It's amazing how much I've learned in that time so I re-wrote a bunch of silly things (looking at your old code is funny some times).

Anyway, the most notable changes are:

Supports importing of txt files that have non ASCII characters correctly.
Support Backup of your custom user dictionary.
Support Restore of your backup to the user dictionary.
The UI looks like an XP App (back then I didn't know about Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Only works with .NET Framework 1.1 (sorry, no time to test on 1.0).
Resizing and non standard Windows resolutions should be fixed.
Fixed a bug when entering an empty string into the add text field.

I haven't tested the app extensively, but it seems to work just fine ;-) . If you have any problems with it please let me know or file a bug in the workspace.