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Show words as Danmaku on the screen to help you remember them.
DWords is a cross platform tool which show words as Danmaku on your screen to help you memorize them. The main purpose of DWords is to help non-English-speaking people study English, but not limited to English, you can also use it to memorize anything you want.
Features:
- Open source and cross platform
- Memorize words with ubiquitous Danmakus while using a computer
- Synchronize between multiple devices by email
- Add words using you phone by email
- Included dictionaries
DWords is written by Python3, we recommend install via pip. Please make sure your machine has been installed Python3.
Running the following in your terminal and DWords is installed:
pip3 install DWordsYou can also install from source code:
git clone https://github.com/luyuhuang/DWords.git
cd DWords
git checkout master
python3 setup.py installIf you don't know Python, we also provide binary distributions for Windows. Click here to download it. Caution, binary distributions may not be trusted by antivirus software.
Type DWords in your terminal to start DWords. If you download binary distributions, double click DWords.exe to start it.
Click "+" button and enter into the input box below to add words. The format is: the first line is the word, the second line is a short explanation and followed by detailed explanations. The short explanation can be displayed directly on the Danmaku, while the detailed explanations can only be displayed on the details panel. Detailed explanation is optional. For example:
word
a unit of language
a unit of language that native speakers can identify; a brief statement.
And then click "Commit" button to add it, or press Ctrl + Enter.
DWords included dictionaries, click "Setting" button and set it in the "Common" tab. Currently only English-Chinese dictionary is supported, including more than 30,000 words. Once setting up the dictionary, the explanation will appear automatically when you press Enter while input a word.
DWords can synchronize words between multiple devices. In order to use this feature, you need to set up an account first. Click "Setting" button and set the email address, email password, SMTP server and POP3 server in the "Account" tab. DWords'll synchronize data via send emails, so we recommend using an infrequently used mailbox.
Once setting up the account, you can add add words by sending email to the set up mailbox. Edit a email using any email client, with the subject "DWords add" and the format of content is similar to add words, but you can add more than one word, separated by triple dash "---" or triple comma ",,,"; Triple swung dash "~~~" or triple dot "..." tells DWords it's the end. For example:
world
世界
---
word
单词
,,,
hello
你好
...
The content after "..." will be ignored.
Then send the email to the mailbox you set up.
If you have set up the dictionary, you don't have to specify the explanation and DWords'll consult the dictionary automatically.
If you find any problems or have any suggestions, open an issue. We also welcome all kinds of pull requests.
DWords is distributed under the GPLv3 License because PyQt5 is licensed under the GPLv3 (so we have no choice). You can use it for free and modify it freely, but you have to open source with the same license when you modify it.