MaoriDictionary

Deprecated. Ported to Elm - https://github.com/widged/elm-maori-dictionary

Author: Marielle Lange Version: 1

Copyright 2011 Marielle Lange Dual licensed under MIT and GPL

Description

A port to small screen Mobile devices of Herbert Willliams' Dictionary of the Maori Language, published by NZETC under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand License.

Requirements

Code written in Flex. The easiest way to run it is by using Flash Builder, a paying IDE provided by Adobe. There is a free 30 day trial version available.

Flex is open source. It is possible to package AIR applications for Android from the command line (commandLine).

If using Flash Builder, use project import on MaoriDictMobile.fxp.

Content

Two applications are available in the archive.

MaoriDictParser is a small utility to convert some random xml file that contains data entries that can be isolated into fields (as columns in a database) into other formats (tabbed, JSON, SQLlite). See maoriDictionary.dictionary.parser.WilliamDictParser for parsing the original TIE.xml and maoriDictionary.dictionary.parser.WilliamXmlParser for parsing the reworked one. It is ultimately used to convert the xml data into a SQLlite database.

MaoriDict is a mobile application for browsing the dictionary. It reads the data from the SQLlite database at runtime.

TODO

etc/xml/maori_dict.xml needs further proof checking to ensure that all items are marked fully and correctly. A lot of the transformation from print rendering markup to linguistically meaningful one has been automated using regular expressions but it cannot detect all Maori words and sentences correctly. Easiest way to get this done is to use the TextMate DictMaori Bundle, available in the tools folder.

MaoriDict was implemented using views, as recommended. However, views are managed by saving any data in a cache and destroying and re-instantiating the visual display component any time a new view is navigated. This causes a real delay for the dictionary view. It would be better to use popup panels instead of view navigation for the display of the WordItems.