http://www.digitbit.com/zdt creating chinese learning software Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:33:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've put out a new sandbox build that contains the new Flashcard notes functionality. Now you can attach text, images and sounds to your flashcards. Keep in mind that this is not beta, or alpha software. It's just a snapshot of stuff I'm working on. That said, ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/080-sandbox-build-out/ One of the most frequent requests I get from people is that they want the ability to add user defined content to their flashcards. I've started to take a look at implementing this and here are some (very early) screenshots of what I have so far. Currently it ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/adding-notes-to-flashcards/ As you may have noticed, there hasn't been much ZDT development going on since 0.7.0 came out in November. I've been pretty busy with other projects over the past several months. I have just recently started on 0.7.1 development, by making several user requested bug fixes and small enhancements. ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/zdt-update/ Just to let people know, I've updated the CEDICT plugin to the Nov 26th version of the CEDICT dictionary. It contains almost 55,000 entries, compared to the 27,000 entries the old one had. To install, just drop it into your ZDT plugins directory. You can download it from ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/new-cedict-plugin-released/ Carl McCabe has graciously submitted his word lists for all 14 chapters of the New Practical Chinese Reader, Vol 1 textbook. If you are currently using the ZDT to create some interesting word lists, please consider sharing to help others out with their Chinese learning. Just send me ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/npcr-vol-1-word-list-added/ The latest and greatest ZDT 0.7.0 final release is now available. If you're still on 0.6.1, you should find quite a bit of new stuff. People that have been playing around with the beta and rc releases will notice a variety of bug fixes and performance improvements. Thanks ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/zdt-070-new-and-noteworthy/ Please check out the latest rc6 build in the sandbox. I'm hoping to turn this build into the 0.7.0 final release. If people can try it out and let me know if they find any new major, show-stopping bugs in it, I would appreciate it. I will ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/zdt-070-final-almost-here/ I have just uploaded the 0.2.1 version of the handedict plugin. It turns out that the plugin was missing all entries that contained a ü in its pinyin field. Thanks to Heinz Küpper for pointing this out. As a result, there are now almost 1400 more entries ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/handedict-plugin-updated-again/ For all you German speaking Chinese learners, I've just uploaded version 0.2.0 of the Handedict plugin which is based off the Oct 11th version of the Handedict dictionary. If you're daring, try it with the latest ZDT 0.7.0 rc3 build and you should notice some speed improvements in annotating ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/handedict-plugin-updated/ It seems like there's still some several very strange problems that are occurring while running ZDT with Vista. Solving these problems has been hampered by the fact that I don't have a Vista machine to work with. Well, that's about to change. Thanks to some generous donations, ... http://www.digitbit.com/zdt/zdt-vista/