McGill Rhyming Dictionary...

[Onesimus Prime]

I present to you the first rhyming dictionary submitted to TPFC! (that I know of)
McGill’s Rhyming Dictionary / VersePerfect 2.0
http://www.bryantmcgill.com/Free_Rhyming_Dictionary/

I've already added it to (my private list on) the database...

[opsimathic]

Interesting piece of software ... but how do I make it portable? ... and how do I get rid of the nag screen on startup?
Thanks.
/opsimathic

[Onesimus Prime]

Did you look at my submission? (the link in the text "added it" in my first post)

When I followed my own extraction instructions, the "nag screen" only appears on the first run (though it does have a splash screen every time), and it automatically writes settings to "settings.ini" in the application folder. Is it behaving differently for you? If so, what OS, etc. are you using? I've used it on Vista, and would be able to test it on XP also if needed.

general (off-topic) question: what's the role of the "portable freeware submission" forum to be, with the new user-editable database? Are we to essentially "mirror" the two (a submission via both the forum and our personal database)?

[opsimathic]

Did you look at my submission? (the link in the text "added it" in my first post)

Sorry! Missed that. I will take another look at the app.

/opsimathic

[Onesimus Prime]

I'm having to use this right now, which reminded me of another of its features: you can add online linguistic tools and access them directly from within the program. Just look up a word on, say, dictionary.com, copy the web address, and replace the word that you looked up with "%s" (minus the quotes). So if you looked up "portable" on dictionary.com and got

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dictionary.com=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/portable

you would turn it into

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dictionary.com=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%s

You can do this from inside the program, but you can also do it manuall by editing settings.ini in the program folder.

Below I'll include some of the ones I've personally added... The part before the = is a "friendly name" you assign, and will be what shows up on that site's tab (each active one gets its own tab, in the order entered in this [OnlineDictionaries] section). The part after the = is the URL with the %s variable. These are sorted by my personal frequency of use:

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[OnlineDictionaries]
RhymeZone=http://rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=%s&typeofrhyme=perfect&org1=syl&org2=l
thesaurus.com=http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/%s
dictionary.com=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%s
EtymOnline=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=%s&searchmode=none
Wikipedia=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s
Wiktionary=http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%s
google=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=definition%%3A+%s

and to actually enable their use:

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[OnlineLookupsEnabled]
Wikipedia=1
Wiktionary=1
dictionary.com=1
google=1
RhymeZone=1
thesaurus.com=1
EtymOnline=1

Apparently the order doesn't have to match that of the [OnlineDictionaries] section, as this is exactly how it shows up in my .ini. And again, if you don't want to slog through the .ini file manually, you can do all this through Tools --> Options --> Online Dictionaries. When adding a new online tool, just use the modified URL's above, or similar ones of your own, where it asks for "format."

I hope some of the above is helpful!