Word Completion Editor

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://dmitriy.geels.googlepages.com/dictionaryeditor">http://dmitriy.geels.googlepages.com/dictionaryeditor</a><br /><br /><i>"PocketPC has internal mechanism intended to help user write text - word completion feature. You enable or disable it and change some its options in System > Settings > Input. But there is no way to add your word to dictionary or change words, that system learned from you (yes, it does it sometimes)."</i><br /><br />This is a little 19KB download that is also free, enabling you to edit the word completion dictionary. I cannot tell though what versions of Pocket PC this is for. It is both a blessing and a curse that Windows Mobile 5 user additions survive a soft reset. WM5 has <i>learned</i> some typos I'd like to get rid of. I need to try this utility this weekend. WM2003SE though, if I recall correctly, learns, but does not save what it learns between soft resets. I am not sure if this utility works with both of these and earlier versions. Has anyone else given this a go?

[Brad Adrian]

WM5 has learned some typos I'd like to get rid of...
That's what you get for using FITALY instead of MY favorite input method -- Calligrapher! ;)

[kamikun]

I cannot speak directly to this app 'cause I haven't tried it, but Vicott over at Mobile-SG (http://mobile-sg.com/blog.asp) has recently been working on a similar app and workarounds for the loss of edits between resets.

IIUC, he found that the editor will 'learn' between resets (newly edited words will not be lost), but the ability to edit the dictionary is lost after you edit it once. His current version claims to get around that problem by fooling the PPC into thinking that after each reset its dictionary is 'factory fresh.'

The latest version, I believe, also allows the use of blanks and symbols into the dictionary file - so you can set up a password, an email address or a short phrase even into the word suggestion list.

You can check out the program here (http://mobile-sg.com/ppc/apps/?p=DictEditor). The word completion editor also comes as part of a bundle called (imaginatively enough) DictMgr (http://mobile-sg.com/ppc/apps/?p=DictMgr) with other dictionary related programs: a word-correction editor, a spell-checker editor, a T9 editor and a dictionary of common acronyms.

The bundle is really the better deal as you get *even more* for free as oppossed to just one thing for nothing. 8)

This might also be of interest to those who like to tweak on the cheap: Pocket UI Tweaker (http://mobile-sg.com/ppc/apps/?p=UITweaker) is, as the name suggests, a collection of utilites for changing a number of custom settings on your machine. I personally appreciate the PT Explorer (http://mobile-sg.com/ppc/apps/?p=PTExplorer) because it lets me keep my tsk files on storage and out of main memory.

/really feel foolish having spent $$ on a dictionary editor a few months ago

[signothefish]

Several people posted this as one of their "Favorite Yet Unsuspecting" software apps on their Pocket PC:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47406&amp;highlight=dictionaryeditor

I've been using this utility for more than a year now. It gets 'er done. I just wish word completion worked with HTML forms in Opera.

[kamikun]

Several people posted this as one of their "Favorite Yet Unsuspecting" software apps on their Pocket PC:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47406&amp;highlight=dictionaryeditor

That's a really neat thread, probably the best one this week that I'd forgotten about... Had let PQzII (http://www.nicque.com/PQz/), which I'd meant to check out months ago, completely slip my mind.

As an English instructor, though, I've gotta take issue with the misuse of "unsuspecting." Unsuspecting means 'trusting'... these apps don't trust. I think the word the original poster was going for was "unassuming" which means 'modest.' (/language tard) :)

... I just wish word completion worked with HTML forms in Opera.
Ack vey, I feel your pain on this one.

[vicott]

IIUC, he found that the editor will 'learn' between resets (newly edited words will not be lost), but the ability to edit the dictionary is lost after you edit it once. His current version claims to get around that problem by fooling the PPC into thinking that after each reset its dictionary is 'factory fresh.'

Actually, the locked file problem which I mentioned only applies to the auto-correction dictionary.

On the Pocket PC, there are several types of built-in dictionaries which can be edited:
1) Word Completion Dictionary
2) Spell Checking Dictionary - for word processing apps
3) Auto-correction Dictionary

For the word completion feature, it is divided into 3 portions:
1) Main dictionary with common english words
2) Custom dictionary
3) Words stored in the memory which are cleared after a soft reset

For the Spell Checking dictionary, is is divided into the main dictionary and also the custom dictionary.

As for auto-correction dictionary, the OS locks the file after a soft reset if it has been edited before. There is only 1 dictionary used for auto-correction feature. The work-around I suggested was a clumsy one, but is the best and only way I can think of. As for the spell checking dictionary and the word completion dictionary, there are no issues with editing them over and over again. Those files are never lockec by the OS.

[Darren Behan]

Very nice and useful little program. About 10% of my dictionary was misspellings (&lt;-that may be one too ;). Now instead of Th9ks I can properly say Thanks!

db

[Menneisyys]

I've also elaborated on a lot of similar questions at http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=365548 - certainly worth a read