My Dictionary is a personal tool to store, organise and manage your vocabulary in English and your mother tongue. Like in an encyclopedia, each word and the English translation can be further explained by an unlimited amount of text, a figure or a picture, and a voice stream. All words, text and media clips are organised in database grids that can be easily edited, updated, sorted and searched. The program's main interface consists of three tabs for 1) Viewing and Searching for Words, 2) Adding and Changing Words, 3) Adding and Changing Categories (max. of 3 catagories). When using the program for the first time, a user starts normally with the 3rd tab entering categories of her/his own choice. Further categories can be also added later. Then a user would go to the 2nd tab to enter and edit words. Here each word and the English translation can be further explained by an unlimited amount of text, a figure or picture, and a voice stream. These objects are NOT stored in the database to guarantee maximum performance. Only file and path names of objects are stored in the database. The program uses a MS Access database that is open and NOT password protected so that a user is able to ex- and import data as wanted. A backup of the latest database file is automatically created in the program's root directory each time the program starts. Its name has the following format: `Date` `Time` `BackUp Dictionary.mdb`. Searching for words under the 1st tab can be done in two ways. A click on a column header sorts the database grid in the alphabetical order of that column. Or after entering some text in a search box, the pointer of the database grid jumps to the first occurence of this text. For refined searches different categories can be selected. An example database for English / Turkish can be found in the example folder of the program's root directory. It can be opened by clicking on `File/Open`. Other File commands are `File/New`, `../Save` and `../Properties. |
