ChrLookup

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Program Description

ChrLookup is a small ShareWare program to assist in dictionary lookup of words to translate from English to Cherokee, or visa versa.

ChrLookup does NOT come with any dictionary words pre-installed.  Its purpose is to let you build your own vocabulary by entering the words you know and learn.

This program maintains its own database of words, and can import other lists of words in various formats.  It can also export its internal database into various formats.

The basic layout of the program is as a simple dialog.  On the left is an edit box where you may enter a search word.  The best match in the list below is selected.  Or you may select in the list directly.  Whatever entry is selected in the list, the information about that entry is displayed on the right, using whichever font you have selected in the combobox.  For example:

Some words have more than one definition:

As you can see, the general layout of the information on the right is to show the English word in black, the Cherokee word is indented and shown both in blue using the names of the syllables and in red using the syllabary symbols themselves.

If there is a comment about the entry, it is black, indented twice, and in italics.

ChrLookup Menus

Under the File menu, you may:  ( See also: File Format Section  )

• Create a New dictionary file.
• Open an existing dictionary file.
• Import other files.  They may be:
  • Comma Separated Values (*.csv)
  • Tab Separated Values (*.txt; *.tsv; *.idp)
  • Open Translation Engine (*.ote)
  • ChrLookup backup files (*.clb)
• Export the database to some other file format:
  • Comma Separated Values (*.csv)
  • Tab Separated Values (*.txt; *.tsv; *.idp)
  • Open Translation Engine (*.ote)
  • ChrLookup backup files (*.clb)
• Close the current dictionary file.  You will be prompted to save if the file has changed in any way.
• Save the current dictionary file.
• Save As the current dictionary file with a different file name.
• Open some recently used dictionary files.
• Exit the program.

When you exit the program, any changes you have made to any open database are saved to disk.  When you next open the program, the main database is automatically loaded back into memory.

Under the Options menu, you may:

• Have the Right Hand Area display the English words.
• Have the Right Hand Area display the Cherokee words. [ click here for an example ]
• Select your CopyPreferences.
  This is the action when you type Ctrl-C (see the Edit menu). [ click here for an example ]
• Copy the XML Format of the currently selected words.
• Copy the English of the currently selected words.
• Copy the Cherokee (as entered) of the currently selected words.
• Copy the Canonical Cherokee of the currently selected words.
• Copy the Cherokee Syllabary (in selected font) of the currently selected words.
• Copy the Cherokee HTML Syllabary (in selected font) of the currently selected words.
• Copy the Cherokee UNICODE Syllabary of the currently selected words.

Under the Edit menu, you may:

• Undo the most recent change.
• Cut the selected entries.
• Copy the selected entries to the clipboard.
• Paste what can be gotten from the clipboard.
• Add Entry ... to open a dialog and enter new information. [ click here for an example, click here for an example ]

Under the View menu, you may:

• Toggle whether to display the Tool Bar.
• Toggle whether to display the Status Bar.
• Have the Right Hand Area use a Larger Font.
• Have the Right Hand Area use a Smaller Font.
• Open a dilaog to show Dictionary Information. [ click here for an example ]

If the Tool Bar is selected,

then you may select the options for the left hand side showing the English or Cherokee words.  And you may select the font to use for display of Cherokee.  You may also increase or decrease the size of hte font for the right hand side.  The list of available fonts depends on which ones you have installed. [ click here for an example ]

Under the Tools menu, your may:

• Register File Types for ChrLookup. [ click here for an example ]

Under the Help menu you may:

• Display this program's Help Topics file.
• For the selected font, display the Font Information. [ click here for an example ]
  From that dialog, there is a link to the font's home site, so you may download the font.
• Display information about all Known Fonts. [ click here for an example ]
  There is a link to the home site for each font.
• Display the program's About dialog.

File Formats

When importing or exporting files, the following file formats are processed.

Comma Separated Values

If there is a comma inside a value, then put the value inside double-quotes.

.csv

Two or three columns:

1. English
2. Cherokee
3. Comment (optional)

TAB Separated Values

If there is a comma inside a value, then put the value inside double-quotes.

.txt

Two or three columns:

1. English
2. Cherokee
3. Comment (optional)

.tsv

Two or three columns:

1. English
2. Cherokee
3. Comment (optional)

.idp

Two columns:

1. English
2. Cherokee

Open Translation Engine

.ote

This is an XML-ish format.  ChrLookup does not parse the full XML of the file.  What is searched for is the pattern:
<word>
<en>English</en>
<chr>Cherokee</chr>
<cmt>Comment</cmt>    <!-- optional --> </word>

ChrLookup Database

.cld

This is the internal format of the program. It is hashed, and (depending on the version) may or may not be compressed. In either case, there is no easy way to look at what is inside and find the words.

ChrLookup Database Backup

.clb

This is the internal format of the program. It is hashed, and (depending on the version) may or may not be compressed. In either case, there is no easy way to look at what is inside and find the words.

Download

You may download the ChrLookup installer here.  As new versions become available, this section will be updated.

• Shareware License Agreement
• Second Release: 2.0.0.46 on 2005.03.20
  • Program ZIPPED 235,520 bytes (unzipped: 520,192 bytes)
  • Changes in this version: 3,087 bytes
• First Release: 2.0.0.9 on 2005.03.04
  • Program ZIPPED 86,418 bytes (unzipped: 253,952 bytes)
  • Changes in this version: 2,747 bytes
• ChrLookup Version 1 is still available.

NOTE: The ChrLookup program does NOT come with a built in dictionary (at this time). It is intended as an aid while you learn words and build your own dictionary.

Registration

You only have to register once, if you register more than once, I will thank you for the money, but you will still only receive one email when there are updates to this program.

Your name and email address will only be used for the purpose of these rare program update mailings. They will never be given away or sold or passed along to any other entity for any use whatsoever (except as required by law).

Registration is $10 US. You may certainly send more, and I will accept with gratitude. ;-)

There are other ways, but it is easiest for me if you use PayPal:

NOTE: You do not need to fill in a "Shipping Address" since I won't be shipping you anything, you just download the installer.

NOTE: Be careful not to accidently submit the payment twice.

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