Also, if everything goes according to plan, the first version of
1. A rather simple cross-platform solution to the original problem Romajifier48 was written to solve.
will be done in the next few days.
Here we go.
As a reminder, the original problem Romajifier48 was written to solve was seeing a name like this:
and using Rikaichan to try to figure out who it is resulting in something like this:
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Which, as I pointed out in the first post of this thread, isn't really very helpful at all.
But now, Rikaichan can be much more helpful:
This is the standard Rikaichan (for Firefox) Japanese-English dictionary with every entry from the Girls.48 Keyfile added. I actually had a version of this done months ago, but I was waiting for the developer of Rikaikun (for Chrome) to add support for user dictionary entries - which he said was coming in a future version - but Rikaikun hasn't been updated in almost a year, and I decided not to wait any longer. So there will possibly be a Rikaikun version in the future, if that support gets added.
Differences from Romajifier48: 1. Only works in Firefox, and not in all of Windows.
2.
Should work in Firefox for OSX and Linux. This isn't tested, but a quick Google search shows that Rikaichan does work in those OSes.
3. Information is not configurable. You can't - for example - switch to western name order like you can in Romajifier48.
4. Will not work if there is a space in the name.
5. Doesn't include a LookUp Tool, Ranker, etc. (Though it is created using a special build of the LookUp Tool).
Installation Instructions:1. If Rikaichan is not already installed in Firefox, get it from here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rikaichan/ Alternatively, you can use Rikaisama - which uses the Rikaichan dictionaries and adds a lot of extra features for Japanese learners. It's what I use. You can read about it and get it from here:
http://rikaisama.sourceforge.net/2. If you want the Rikaichan Japanese Names Dictionary you can get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rikaichan-jpnames. Don't worry about the Japanese-English Dictionary, you'll be getting mine in the next step.
3. Install my altered version of the Japanese-English Dictionary from here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?62ybbyt4vtysa6i Depending on your settings, clicking on the link in Firefox may automatically install the extension. If it doesn't, you can either drag and drop the file onto Firefox, or use File -> Open File in the menu.
And that's it, Rikaichan (or Rikaisama) will now help you out when you come to the name of an OOO48 member that you don't recognize.
New versions of the dictionary file will be released shortly after updates are made to the Keyfile. (Most likely in the official keyfile update post in this thread).
And that's not all...
Inspired by the userscript posted by
Flyp in the
Stock Game Thread, I added every entry from the keyfile and turned it into the official Romajifier48 Bookmarklet. This is basically an in-browser version of Romajifier48's parsing feature.
Just one click turns this:
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Into this:
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About the Bookmarklet:1. The actual "romajifier" code is stored in my dropbox account, so once you have the bookmarklet installed it is always up-to-date.
The one disadvantage to this is that there is a bandwidth cap on dropbox files, but it amounts to around a million clicks a day. If this ever becomes a problem, I'll find some other way. The autoupdate for the keyfile in Romajifier48 uses dropbox, and has worked well for me so far.
2. Will
theoretically work in all browsers across all OSes. I'm sure, however, this isn't actually the case. It's only been tested on my computer using Firefox and Chrome
3. Just like the Rikaichan dictionary, It is not configurable. If there is demand for it, I can make a western name order version, though.
4. Also, like the dictionary, it will not work if there is a space in the name. Unlike the dictionary, support can probably be added at some point; once I figure it out in JavaScript.
Installation:It doesn't look like I can post a drag and drop bookmarklet to the forum, so click on the following link instead:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/561040/Bookmarklet.htmlIt's extremely bare bones right now, but it works.
One more thing...
The complete rewrite of the plus distribution of Romajifier48 is going to be called Query48. It's not ready for an alpha release yet, but I thought I'd throw some teaser pics into this post anyway.
First, a few looks at the new fully configurable tooltip library (the pics are stored in a DLL):
Now, here's the query builder - which is the new version of the LookUp Tool (note that I haven't added Team J yet):
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And here's the results viewer - which displays all query results and parsed text. (It's using the JPHiP template in this pic):
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A look at the results viewer menus (not everything is functional yet):
Another look at the results viewer using the NMB48 template:
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Back to the JPHiP template, using the "by birthdate" format, and color coded:
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Color coded Parsed text (original from the mixi ranking thread):
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When showing parsed text, there is an option to turn it into a list:
And last, but not least, a look at the new ranker:
I'm especially proud of the ranker because it:
1. Uses the merge sort algorithm. (that might mean something to other folks here).
2. Allows progress to be saved and reloaded via the file menu.
3. Allows undo for up to the last 5 choices.
4. Has ignore buttons, so you don't have to keep seeing girls you don't care about.
5. Similar to my previous ranker, can rank any list created by the Query Builder.
6. Also, any parsed text can be turned into a list that can be ranked. So a list of senbatsu for a new single (for example) can be parsed, turned into a list, and then ranked.
I have to give
Amplifier credit here because a lot of the design and functionality choices for Query48 are
stolen from inspired by his ranker.
I'm hoping to release an alpha version of Query48 sometime in January, so I can make sure the functionality works in other versions of Windows besides mine. Especially the results viewer since it relies on Windows API calls (and the Internet Explorer engine).