J-Ben: a Japanese study program
Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 by Paul Goins
Released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or above
This program should be considered "alpha" status and is not intended
for everyday use.
For installation, see INSTALL.txt.
For license information, see COPYING.txt.
Summary of current status:
- The kanji and word dictionaries work at a basic level, but are by
no means fast. They are pending cleanup if not a rewrite. (I
knew much less about Python at the time I wrote them than I do
now.)
- Improvement over J-Ben 1.2.3: Startup time is nearly instantaneous
since dictionary data is not loaded until one of the dictionaries
is queried.
- The preferences menu, although present, does not actually do
anything meaningful yet.
- Most advanced features in the program are not yet present. (Study
lists, kanji practice mode, character/word cross referencing.
- The program can be hooked into jben_kpengine for handwriting
recognition support. However, the path is currently hardcoded.
This is a temporary situation; I plan on making a Python module
equivalent to that code in the future.
As always, feedback and patches are welcome.
- Paul