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Japanese language study suite and dictionary
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Request: keep the handwriting tool opened #31

Open jhack-jos opened 4 years ago

jhack-jos commented 4 years ago

Feature Request #1 I believe the handwriting tool is one of the most beautiful features in Zkanji. Now, when you select "practice by writing" and open the "Long-term studying list..." and click on "study now", the handwriting tool is always closed by default.

My suggestions would be: 1) either having an option to have the handwriting tool always opened for Kanji study 2) or alternatively / on top of that, remember the last status of the handwriting tool. If it was opened for the last kanji, than it should be automatically opened also for the current one.

The second solution would probably be the most natural.

Feature Request #2 On top of that: 3) the handwriting tool closes itself as soon as you change application. I find it slightly inconvenient as that it is not what you would want most of the time. This would be especially true in the dictionary, when you are looking for a word, and maybe handwriting a kanji that is inside an image / PDF in another application. See down.

Feature Request #3 4) The handwriting tool in the Dictionary search is available only when "Translating from Japanese to English", but not when "Browsing the dictionary": I think that such an option if added would be convenient.

Thank you again for the wonderful programming! Warmest Regards, Jhack

z1dev commented 3 years ago

Hi! Sorry for not writing before, but GitHub forgot to notify me of issues posted here apparently for a while now. I haven't seen multiple issues until now.

I'm not working on this project anymore. I wanted to make a full release and maybe add some small adjustments years ago, but for a long time nobody tested zkanji or reported issues, and I didn't want to make a full release of a possibly buggy program, then I moved on.

The issue with the handwriting tool for the study is annoying. I thought I made this right... I might fix this on one weekend but I can't promise anything. For now, you can open the tool fast with the space key when inside the textbox for kanji.

For #2: have you tried using zkanji in minimized mode? If you set this up (in the settings), you can activate a small dictionary version with a key combination any time even while working in other programs. This will pop up the small version on top of the other program and you can search for kanji while seeing the PDF document or game. (For games, this requires playing them in borderless windowed mode, otherwise they get hidden when some other program comes forward.)

3: The dictionary browse couldn't work with kanji, as there is no universal order for kanji. The words listed there are ordered alphabetically, or by the kana order (depending on a setting) so only methods that use these could jump to a word fast. Since kanji have multiple readings, they are all over the place in the list.