Version 0.60
If you like, over at Google Code, I’ve uploaded version 0.60. There are a lot of changes.
Diacritic aware suggestion list
Here is a list of the major changes:
- Diacritic aware search/support for simplified Chinese character conversion: I.E. “Ä” becomes “a”, hence the phrase “apfel” will find “Äpfel”. Chinese traditional characters are converted to simplified Chinese once. I don’t know if the later this is really working.
- Enhanced image support: The properties of images (size, placement, title and description) are take into account. Further, the smaller 120px thumbs are scaled up by the browser to 180px. Yes, they get blurry but that’s ok. I’m really impressed how fine it’s looking now.
- The indexer finds a lot more images. For the German edition over 440,000! If you install them all (I did that only on my Mac) you hardly never see “Image not found” anymore.
- Achim’s “uploader tool” was updated to reflect the new features.
- The suggestions list looks very nice now.
- By clicking the globe on the main page you will be taken to an arbitrary article.
- Much more smaller changes and bug fixes, for a complete list have a look at the Wiki at Google Code.
I’ve also compile a small list of screen shot. Have a look at here if you like.
März 16th, 2008 at 20:20
where can i download the wikipedia for my ipod touch with firmware 1.1.4?
März 16th, 2008 at 20:22
nice updates !
Here is a small bug that i noticed
The little exit button on the right of the search bar works to clear the text works but when the keyboard is up and pressing the x it will freeze the app then pressing it again will crash it.
Hope this helps =)
März 16th, 2008 at 20:25
R4V3BROT-
There is no special version for 1.1.4. Over at Google code (look at the right site there is a link) you can download 0.60.
Tim-
Strange behaviour but not for me. Which firmware are you using?
-Tom
März 16th, 2008 at 20:36
using 1.1.1
März 16th, 2008 at 20:49
Tim-
thanks. The click to that button is simply a little bit of JavaScript. Maybe the Mobile Safari has some flaws here. Maybe not. BTW: I’m using 1.1.2.
so for the time until I’ve fixed it: Don’t hit that button twice
-Tom
März 17th, 2008 at 04:36
Tom,
Are the old articles.bin files (ie ones used with v0.52) compatible with v0.60?
I deleted my v0.52 files from /Applications/Wiki2Touch.app, copied over the new v0.60 files, set the owner, set the permissions, restarted my iPT, started the Wiki2Touch app, and launched the browser. The home page comes up properly, but when I enter a search term, nothing comes up. It’s as though it’s not seeing the articles.bin file or something. It IS seeing the articles.bin file found in /Applications/Wiki2Touch.app/daemon/xx/ because if I key in “A”, it displays the “Articles not found” article in the search results. Likewise, when I key in “H”, it displays the “Help” article in the search results. But keying in anything else results in nothing.
I also copied over the new language.config file into /var/root/Media/Wikipedia/en.
Do I need to re-build my articles.bin file?
März 17th, 2008 at 09:16
Jim-
yes, the old file are comatible. I even don’t have indexed the English edition again.
I assume you get the problems because of 1.1.4. Today I have the ability to check the software on 1.1.3. I was not able to do this in the last week. Maybe I should send you a new version before the next time so we can check if anything works fine.
But what you can do: First, on 1.1.3 an above the article file must go to “/private/var/mobile/Media/Wikipedia/en” (in your case). This is the same folder as “/var/mobile/Media/Wikipedia/en”. “var” is simply a link. to “/private/var”.
On 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 your logged in as “mobile” not as “root” anymore. So you have a different home folder. AFAIK you not have to change any rights anymore (as before).
You cannot run the server on port 80 on 1.1.3/1.1.4 without having root right. But you can run it on 8080 with no special rights.
Sorry for the hazzl!
-Tom
März 17th, 2008 at 14:36
Moving articles.bin to /var/mobile/Wikipedia/en worked! Thanks!
I also like the new “clear” button and the “random article” feature. Very nice!
März 17th, 2008 at 17:33
Hi,
thanks again for this app, but unfortunately the image maker takes very long to download the images.
Over 24 hours is this normal?
März 17th, 2008 at 18:18
Auge-
yes, downloading the images take very very long. Internally the ImageGetter uses 16 threads so 16 different images are downloaded at the same time. But the servers aren’t very fast. Maybe because the small 120px images aren’t in there caches.
You can stop the ImageGetter at any time and resume downloading later. What you’ve already downloaded is not downloaded again.
-Tom
März 17th, 2008 at 23:34
The new diacritic aware search is great ! But I need to change it a little. It only converts characters with stroke (´) but not with hook (ˇ - for example č). I am Czech and these characters are very usual in my language. Complete list of characters with diacritic in czech : á é í ó ú ů ý č ď ň ř č ť ž . Could you learn your application to convert these characters in search too ?
Thank you for your awesome application. Everything else works for me perfectly (images are great too !), even templates (Šablony), which didn´t work for me before. It´s nearly perfect now.
März 18th, 2008 at 10:32
Dexter-
what I did was that I change all character code between 0xc0 and 0xff. That includes some but not all character with diacritics. You#re a lot more into that subject so can you provide me a list of character encoding for the characters you are using? I’ve got such a list from Sanford for translating traditional Chinese characters to simplified ones. Error checking was not possible but he just told me that it’ working for him.
Anyway, I’m glad that you like the application. Thanks for the kind words.
-Tom
März 20th, 2008 at 16:22
okay, so i downloaded the images with the image getter..but how can i create the images.bin? i only have the folders images/common and images/de with all the images in there…