Version History

v.4.5.4

v.4.5.3

v.4.5.2

v.4.5.1

v.4.5

v.4.4.5

v.4.4.4

• New dictionary set switcher
• Kana transliteration contextual menu command

v.4.4.2

• Fixed grapheme drop in kanji page
• Modified grapheme list auto update function
• Fixed EDICT indexing
• Drag and drop in UserDict page

v.4.4.1

• Fixed enable/disable option for Romaji transcription.
• Fixed search of multiple words in EDICT.
• Fixed access to Japanese sound files.
• Fixed headword mode for JMDICT.
• Restored SKIP index display.
• Multiple UTF8 word-lists can be loaded in JLPT page.

  v.4.4

• new layout for word search page
• window toolbar
• improved indexing of EDICT and XDXF files
• EPWING dictionaries support
• sound files support
• edict/kanjidict update from contextual menu

v.4.3.1

• Contextual menu plugin
• Minor changes in grapheme filter
• Minor changes in word searching
• Adding a word to UserDict without page switching

  v.4.3
• Fixed clipboard monitor
• Faster search for XDXF dictionaries (re-indexing is necessary)
• Show kanji contextual menu command is added for text view
• Re-index button
• Multiple dictionary selection
• Copy and find commands for user dictionary
• Radical information now is shown for selected kanji

  v.4.2.4
• Userdict can be loaded as JLPT list
• Modified <Downloads> view
• Dictionaries are sorted by language
• Dictionary information column is added
• <Install dictionary> command can handle *.tag and *.bz2 archived XDFXF dictionaries
• Fixed focus switching in response on pressed arrow key

v.4.2.2

Improved indexing of XDXF dictionaries
Fixed JLPT-4 file
Fixed clipboard monitor
Check for update option
Limitation on number of returned entries

v.4.2.1

Re-indexing through contextual menu
Fixed verb inflection
Fixed blocked access to EDICT/KANJIDICT

v.4.2

Universal binary
Better dictionary installation procedure
fixed minor bugs

v.4.1.1

• Fixed text view lock in word page after control click (e.g. after copy to userDict command).
• Fixed learned words hiding for random lists in JLPT page.
• Fixed textual representation for some graphemes during drag and drop .
• Improved text output for Japanese entries from EDICT.

  v.4.1

• XDXF files support
• MJdic support.

  4.0.5

• JLPT - random list scan
  
• JLPT - hide learned words
  
• File size limit for examples is removed.
  
• Contextual menu for kanji cell (copy to pasteboard)
  
• Contextual menu to open dictionary in JEDict, BBedit and Finder.
  
• Graphemes and kanji drag-drop
  
• Search any text dropped on JEDict main window.
  
• F5 functional key editor mode (temporary disable clipboard monitor single click word selection).

v.4.0.4

• Fixed font preferences for kanji view.
• Fixed click handling inside text views.
• Encoding selector in Open Panel with auto detect option.
• Different text formats for Save As command (txt, rtf amd html).

v.4.0.2



• Fixed Japanese encoding conversion procedure
• Font selection for PowerBook is fixed.
• Duplicate lines in JLPT-1 file are removed.
• Word export to UserDict for Wadoku is added.
• 'Save As' command for userdict is fixed.
• Typos in Preferences are fixed.
• View splitters (in web page and kanji page)
• Direct search for small utf8 and EUC-encoded files.
• Resized kanji table (font size change is not implemented yet)
• Handwriting recognition panel is restored.
• "Search word' and 'Add to UserDict' contextual menu commands for text views.
• Stop/reload button added for web view.
• Bookmarks and history menus are added.
• Show/hide bookmarks bar menu command.
• WebView: Clear cache, Private Browsing, BlockPopup commands.
• Web preferences tab in preferences.
• Find panel for WebView.
  
• Clipboard monitor popup is moved from preferences into word page.
• Bring to front the results of clipboard search option is added.
• 'WebView page' and 'Clipboard Handling' paragraphs are added to manual.
• Separate New commands for three type of document: JEDict, web browser and text document.
• Radical info now is shown together with kanji information.

  v.4.0

  
  
• Cocoa interface (requires OSX 10.4)
• multiple languages
• new kanji finder
• clipboard monitoring
• JLPT lists
• managed dictionary sets
• internal web browser
• Unicode text editor

v.3.8

• <Search in JEDict> command for Services menu.
• Font size now is applied to all edited text views.
• User defined kanji size for table view.
• Additional options for word searching.
• Verb inflection examples.
• Show <Kana alphabets> option.
  
  v.3.7
   
• JEDict manual now appears inside Apple Help viewer.
• Kanji finder shows several examples of kanji usage from EDICT dictionary.
• Kanji lists from main Kanji finder view may be saved as text file.
• Load command inside Kanji page shows all kanji from any text file.
• Drag and drop support for individual kanji inside Kanji finder view.
• Drag feature and copy command for user dictionary lines.
• Pasted or dropped unicode text is accepted.

  
  v.3.6.5
   

• Example sentences support.
• Fixed Haig index.
• Fixed paste command for text page.
• Inline input on/off check box.
  

  v.3.6
   

• New UserDict layout with separate kanji, kana, translation and comment fields.
• In OSX, plug-in now will reside in ~Library/Contextual Menu Items/ folder. This will fix writing permission problem and prevents another users to use JEDict CM plug-in.
• New Special menu containing Find and Find Again commands. These commands search for match in any text view.
• AND logic option for word search. Use & symbol to find entries containing two words simultaneously (e.g. word1 & word2 ).
• JEDict application now is distributed as package. However it is still Classic Carbon application.
   

  v.3.5.5
   

• Disclosure triangle in Kanji view is back
• Fixed startup crash when access to Contextual Menu Items folder in denied in OSX.
  Now when JEDict finds write-protected 'Contextual Menu Items' folder, it displays a message and by-passes plug-in installation/removal. If you want to install plug-in, you need manually enable writing permission. Select Ownership&Permissions option in Get Info panel for  /Library/Contextual Menu Items folder, and turn on read/write privilege for owner.

  v.3.5.4
   

• Plugin install/uninstall function.
• Faster plugin search.
• Plugin can search for hiragana.
• Shortcuts for page switching.

v.3.5

Improved OSX compatibily.

Additional searching options.

Fixed vertical centering of kanji character inside drawing frame.

v.3.4.2

Support for Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar".

v.3.4

Contextual menu support.

Intergated installer&updater.

Fixed occasional crashes in multilanguage environment.

v.3.3

Stroke drawing order information for most-used kanji.

Updated EDICT.

Shorcut for alternative search in ENAMDICT and J_PLACES.

Searching in Eijiro files.

Navigation through recent kanji lists.

v.3.2.3

Inline input.

Scroll wheel support (MacOS X)

Improved search result presentation.

Fixed sluggish search happened accidentally in ver.3.2.

Other minor bugs fixed.

v.3.2

• New page with user dictionary.
• Export of dictionary entries to user dictionary.
• Iterative search for sentence components.
• New HTML based manual.

  v.3.1

• New icon designed by Max Pinton. Thanks Max.
• Improved OS X appearance.
• Fixed wrong kanji code sent from kanji view  to search engine on double click.
• Fixed folder name bug - a failure to open dictionary file when one of outer folders contains in name non-English characters.

v.3.0

• Mac OSX compatible
• Support for recent changes in dictionary database: marked speech parts and selection of    commonly-used words
• Different sorting criteria for kanji lists
• Dictionary selector is moved into JEDict fifth page
• Text size in Search page is selectable
• Each kanji in the table is depicted with stroke count (optionally)

v.2.6

• Smaller index files and shorter dictionary registering time.
• Improved dictionary search.
• More dictionaries supported. Dictionary version information is shown in JEDict Info window.
• Offscreen drawing to reduce image flicker when screen is updated.
• Generic stroke grapheme standing for any grapheme with given stroke counter.
• User-defined starting page.
• Fixed font selection option.
• Fixed wrong kanji appearance in large view when running JEDict under OS 9.1
  Fixed unexpected exit error when user quit program before dictionary registering is completed.

  v.2.5

• JEDict 2.5 contains native PPC code running faster on Power Macintosh.
• Improved kanji graphical classification with 430 graphemes.
• Integrated interface - everything you need inside one window.
• Drag and drop support.
• Expanded dictionary database (registered users ONLY).
• Internal text editor.
• Automatic text conversion into SJIS format (registered users ONLY).
• Improved search inside dictionaries.