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Grakkh! could you send me your script? I've used translate successfully, but only tested with very simple stuff.

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Mac version crashed for me first try. Started up fine. I loaded my vargr.wordo from my ntfs volume and when I tried to generate words...CRASH! I created a copy of my wordo on my hfs volume and... smoooth sailing. Looks like wordbuilder needs write permission on the wordo document to generate words ...

The installer faded into the background when I started work on the GTK version. You need GTK-sharp for it to work with windows. I may decide to rebuild the Windows version using "real" .NET, since I now have both a GTK UI for linux and a cocoa UI for Mac... I dunno. I may also be able to distribute ...

Hey guys,

just a quick check in to note that I've borrowed a mac book from a friend and have successfully run gtk WordBuilder on it, so it is possible at least.

I've started work on a cocoa version, but I'm not making any promises - this .Net to Cocoa interface seems kind of flaky.

Okay, I think it should be working now, so I'm hereby releasing WordBuilder v3.0.0 Download at: http://whee.dk/wordbuilder/gtkwordbuilder-3.0.0.zip It's a simple zip file with an exe and a dll. As with the previous GTK version, you'll need GTK# installed. To my knowledge, it runs equally well on .NE...

It's definately getting closer. I still need to handle token expansions ( the 5[a b] type of thing ), and comments as well, but at least I have all commands loading correctly now, it seems. http://whee.dk/wp-content/gtk_wb.png This is what it looks like so far. Syntax coloring is v. fast on my test ...

Ok, thanks to the prod from Torco, I actually started moving on this once more. I'm working my way through the commands - I have to re-work the parsing of each command, and I'm writing a bit of unit testing for loading them at least. In positive news, I have syntax highlighting that looks to be work...

so... is this moving ? :D Not a whole lot to be honest. I've been playing around with other stuff lately, and hit a bit of trouble with the parser, mostly because I'm too stubborn to change something that needs changing, I guess. I wanted to be able to parse the file by using a forward only reader,...

Aye - that does seem pretty draconian. I pretty much just installed the forum software and left it at that, so it had its default settings, meaning that you'd be a new user until you had posted three messages (all of which would have to be approved) I think I've managed to disable that feature so po...

1) They write python as well. It's doable, but definately not preferable. 2) That depends on the implementation of the parser. Right now, it's line based, and thus I can't exactly ignore all whitespace. 3) Yes, people not acting consistently tends to break code. Not changing tabs into spaces is pref...

another problem: it takes more effort to manually space in to the required length than it does to add brackets another problem: isn't parsing the whitespace more of a bitch than parsing brackets? another problem: people have different indent styles, so forcing them into one really isn't that good o...

Maybe if you're doing a lot of reading the code in and out of word-processors, this might be an issue, but AIUI, the only program that's going to be processing the script is this one, and anyway, a half-decent text editor won't fuck the whitespace, especially not the whitespace at the beginning of ...

--- now that I think about it, this thing might even produce syntax, if it's told how to... of course, all it could do are colourless green ideas that sleep quite furiously. This... intrigues me. What do you mean? I've been thinking about a sister script language that'd define how to translate a pa...

Yes, I could. I was trying to say that some kind of unambiguous separator would be necessary.

regarding line breaks, I have two non-exclusive ideas: a) just spaces: I think this might get a bit complicated to code, tho'... b) Perhaps it's more transparent for the loop command to, instead of using {} brackets, have a "loop/end loop" syntax [or maybe I've been using too much SPSS lately :P]; ...

I just managed to install this in my windows-bearing comp, I'll review it rather succintly: - Excelent tool, without a doubt the most powerful wordgen I've come across: I shall certainly be using it form now on as my primary wordgen app. - It should have a friendlier interface: sure, it's a command...

Ok, I guess I’m just about ready to try this thing out. http://whee.dk/wordbuilder/monowordbuilder.zip Copy the contents of the zip into a directory of your choice and run it using: Windows: doubleclick gtkwordbuilder.exe. Mac/Linux: in a terminal, run the command ‘mono gtkwordbuilder.exe‘ You will ...

I wasn't exactly going to work on this thing right away, so no worries :) I think I could grab the orthos and use those to generate the main branch, and then generate a pronounciation from that. Or, I could generate the main branch using the phonemes (IPA) and then generate orthography from that... ...

That would be pretty cool, actually. Were you thinking about having CD output a script, or having CD output the phonotactics and WB generate the script? But either way, then you could specify the phonotactics, generate a script, and then import the wordlist knowing that the phonotactics would match...

Merge them, no, not really... but it'd be possible to make them interface in various ways - up for some sockets work, faiuwle? ;) Actually, the libraries that I provide could just go in the dir with the executable as far as I can tell, so the parts I can deliver would be copied into a single directo...

I kindof expected that answer. Fair enough. Actually, I had a brief thought about working the other way and being able to translate a syllable structure and phono-whatevers to a basic WordBuilder script - a way of getting started. RPMs and such would be a logical step for later, I suppose. I remembe...

Oh, ouch... I'll fix that real quick. That's supposed to be the installer for the windows version, btw. I am still somewhat clueless on how I'd package a linux version - I guess a tgz of the executable(s) and relevant dlls will do the trick, and I'd have to let people install mono and gtk# on the si...

As far as exporting goes, you could kill a lot of birds with one stone if you export as CSV. Aye. The Windows version already did that, including branches and marks. Would definately like the option to make auto-readable CSVs. I'll have to take a look at what CD can import... will it work if there'...

Hey folks... you asked for it, and now it's getting quite a bit closer. Here's a screenshot of WordBuilder running under mono and using the GTK UI library. http://whee.dk/wp-content/monowordbuilder.png I hope to be able to package something up for you soon. Until then, source code is available at Gi...

I can attest that it worked for me under vista 32 bit, at least.