Layout

Vertically the zbedic window is divided in three regions -- toolbar, wordlist and description box.

Toolbar

The toolbar contains the controls that perform the zbedic actions.
  1. input box -- contains the word for lookup. You can use the dropdown to choose from the list of recently searched words.
  2. dictionary button -- selects a dictionary
  3. copy button -- copies the text that is selected to the clipboard
  4. paste button -- pastes from the clipboard to the input box
  5. settings button -- shows the settings dialog box

Wordlist

The control show the list of defined words that are lexicographically after the word entered in the input box. The number of words shown can be configured from the settings dialog box.

Description Box

This box shows the word description. If the text in the input box is subword of an existing word, the description of that word is shown.

Settings

The Settings dialog box allows the user to configure zbedic. The configuration parameters are:

Integration with QTReader

zbedic supports QCop interprocess messages. To setup QTReader to use zbedic for word lookup, go to File->Set Dictionary and enter zbedic/find as a message name.