Wish List: A little Bookmark Button in the toolbar

[skywind3000]

Having been using GD for almost 3 years, I really love it. I know a lot of translators profit from GD every day.
Thanks for your work.

I lookup nearly 100 words every day in GD. All I want is to mark some of them as "important words" which can be reviewed or studied later. These important words can also be imported to Anki to get memorized.

A bookmark button is required because a lot of words in the history list is not so important.

Therefor, can we have this bookmark list in GD ? Just like the history list (add/delete/import/export).
In the toolbar, a STAR icon beside the magnifier button can be used to add current word into the bookmark list or remove it from list if it has been previously added.

We can press CTRL-D to bookmark a word or un-bookmark it.
We can browse marked words in the bookmark list window which is hidden by default but could show itself in the "View" menu option, and also it could attach to the window border just like the history window.

Studying / Working will be more productive if we have this "bookmark feature" in GD.

GD is similar to a web browser. A good web browser has bookmark list, a good desktop dictionary should have a bookmark list too.

[itkind]

I would love to have this funktion. PLEASE! I will donate 50€

[skywind3000]

To some one who can implement this feature, I will also pay him 500€ for appreciation.

[itkind]

I saw in the Russian forum, that Abs is already working on this since last week. I think we will have it soon.

[skywind3000]

@itkind Do you still remember the URL about this topic in the Russian forum ?

[itkind]

Sure, but you have to register first:
http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=49149&start=320

[skywind3000]

thanks, do you know what does Abs's latest reply mean about the 1.5.0 final release:

Релиз делать некому, вот и весь критерий.

Google translation interpreted it as: "Release there is nobody to do, that's the whole criterion."

Do you know what does it mean ?

[darnn]

Pretty much what Google Translate says: "There's nobody to make the release, there's your whole criterion."

[itkind]

@skywind3000
If you are already registered, check out the huge dictionary archive:
http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=93&topic=2618#1

You can also find my dictionaries there.

[skywind3000]

What a great treasure it is.
I also found your dictionaries about judaica, thanks a lot.

[Abs62]

Try - goldendict-1.5.0-RC2-105-g61295ce(EXE only).7z (EXE for early access builds 1.5.0-RC-85).

[skywind3000]

Thanks very much, some feedback:

It crashed when I was trying to delete two or more items together (folders or words).

reproduce:

1. select two or more items at one time in the favorites.
2. delete them

And why there is an empty column before the words in the favorite pane, what is it used for ?

At last, can I have a hot key to add current word into favorite list ?

[Eosphorus]

First off, great work, Abs62!

'Favorites' is a really useful new feature to an already great program. And funny thing is: I didn't know that I missed it until just now.

Ok, it needs some refinement though. I can confirm those crashes, see below. But it doesn't give out every time I delete some words; it seems rather erratic.

Where is that bug?!

[Abs62]

It crashed when I was trying to delete two or more items together (folders or words).

Fixed - goldendict-1.5.0-RC2-107-g2bf4c51(EXE only).7z.

And why there is an empty column before the words in the favorite pane, what is it used for ?

For tree structure as in any TreeView.

At last, can I have a hot key to add current word into favorite list ?

Will be "Ctrl+E".

[itkind]

@Abs62
Give me your PayPal address, so I can send you the promised 50€.

[skywind3000]

@Abs62
Thank you for this great feature, I am ready to make the payment too.

[skywind3000]

Having invited almost 10 people to test and got some feedback:

1. Never crash while deleting items.

2. The preview window (you know, the Ctrl-C-C Window) also needs a favorite button and CTRL-E hotkey:

When they were reading fictions they preferred to use preview window rather than the main GD window.
And most of them wanted a "star button" (also CTRL-E) in the preview window.

[Abs62]

OK - goldendict-1.5.0-RC2-111-gb86f680(EXE only).7z.

[Abs62]

New help files you can take from GD sources.

[Eosphorus]

Since I usually (well... sometimes) know what I am doing, how can I suppress the inquiry when deleting an item on the list?
"All selected items will be deleted. Continue?"

For now, I commented these code lines in file "favoritespanewidget.cc" out:

/*
QMessageBox mb( QMessageBox::Warning, "GoldenDict",
tr( "All selected items will be deleted. Continue?" ),
QMessageBox::Yes | QMessageBox::No );
mb.exec();
if( mb.result() != QMessageBox::Yes )
return;
*/

But for convenience's sake, an option in 'Preferences' would be nice here.

[Abs62]

OK - goldendict-1.5.0-RC2-113-g182449f(EXE only).7z.

[skywind3000]

After 20 days, I believe the favorite pane is stable enough.
Only this picture can express our gratitude:

Expecting next release on https://github.com/goldendict/goldendict/wiki/Early-Access-Builds-for-Windows

Has it been planned ?

[Abs62]

Planned. At the right time or some later.