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.
- input box -- contains the word for lookup. You can use the
dropdown to choose from the list of recently searched words.
- dictionary button -- selects a dictionary
- copy button -- copies the text that is selected to the clipboard
- paste button -- pastes from the clipboard to the input box
- 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:
- Wordlist length -- number of words shown in the wordlist box
- History length -- number of words kept in the input box drop-down
- Dictionary Path -- colon separated list of directories that will
be searched for dictionary files
- Font -- the font used in the application
- Save dictionary state on exit -- save the content of the input,
wordlist and description boxes on exit and show it next time when
zbedic is executed
- Show pronounciation -- for dictionaries that have pronounciation
defined, this checkbox defines whether to show it or not. If you
don't use a Unicode font that has the pronounciation symbols, you
may want to disable the pronounciation
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.