Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search?
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Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:28 amby hanyl05
Hi, great man,
Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search function?
We have been expecting this function for more than TWO years.
Wish GD possess this magic function in the near future!
Re: Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search?
Posted:
Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:06 pmby Tvangeste
hanyl05 wrote:Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search function?
We have been expecting this function for more than TWO years.
The search functionality is quite complicated and its proper implementation would require quite significant amount of personal time and efforts. And so far nobody seriously worked on this feature. GoldenDict is a volunteer project, nobody gets paid for developing and maintaining it, everything is being done via personal efforts. Somebody who is *really* missing this feature would need to step up and implement it.
Re: Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search?
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Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:05 amby hanyl05
Thank you very much for your comment and very gratitude for your effort on Goldendict.
Personally, the search function (wildcard and full-text) of Stardict (also a free software maintained by Mr. Hu from China) is far better than Goldendict. But GD support more dictionaries than stardict, and the interface is more friendly to use on windows than stardict.
GD now has the free and premium versions on android platform, and I suppose that similar commercial models can also be implemented for windows platform. Consider current version as the free version, and version with the advanced search functions as the premium version. Anyhow, maintain a good software is a pretty time-consuming job and the contributor(s) should be compensated in some way.
Re: Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search?
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Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:36 pmby mmmmmm
full-text search for me is not very important
but wildcard is very important for me as an English learner .because I don't know the right spelling of words
I hope that this function is in GD
Re: Any specific plan for the wildcard and full-text search?
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Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:58 pmby Tvangeste
mmmmmm wrote:full-text search for me is not very important
but wildcard is very important for me as an English learner .because I don't know the right spelling of words
I hope that this function is in GD
Wildcard search is easier to implement so if anything is going to change then this is the first search-related feature to be implemented.