Almaany English Dictionaries

• Author: Ibrahim Hamadeh
• Compatibility: NVDA version 2019.3 and later
• Download version 0.4

This addon helps you get the meaning of words or phrases through the almaany.com website.
For this purpose, it uses a bunch of English-Other language dictionaries on the site.
If you did not find your language between them, sorry, for that is all the dictionaries available and we tried to make use of them.
and thus in order to use this addon, you need to be connected to the internet.
Web site being used for that: almaany.com.

notice: most dictionaries used are bilingual, meaning that for instance, the English French dictionary translates from english to French and from French to English also.
This addon does not have a default gesture
but you can as always assign a new gesture for the addon going to:
NVDA menu(NVDA+N)/Preferences/Input gestures/Almaany English Dictionaries.

Usage

• Do not forget, first you have to assign a gesture for the addon.
• Select a word and press the gesture of the addon, and you will access the meaning of the word using the default dictionary in the addon.
• Otherwise let no selection, and press that gesture, the Almaany English Dictionaries dialog will be displayed
  enter in the edit field the word you want, tab an choose the dictionary you want and press enter on it.
  if you want to get the meaning in the default English to English dictionary, you can always press enter on the edit field and after that the meaning of the word will be displayed in a separate browseable window.
• You can of cource change the default dictionary of the addon, from the setting panel of the addon, through preferences menu.

Options in setting panel

• You can any time adjust these options, going to addon's setting panel, through:
  NVDA menu/preferences/Settings/Almaany English Dictionaries
• First, you got a combo box, and from there you can fchoose the default dictionary of the addon.
  This means, when selecting a word and pressing the gesture of the addon, will let you access directly it's meaning in this dictionary.
• After that, another combo box to choose the type of window used to display the meaning.
  1. the default and first choice, is your ordinary default browser
     choosing this, the result will be displayed in your default ordinary full browser.
  2. the second choice, is a browser like window as in firefox or google chrome, it is a browser window without file menus or address bar.
     please remember you can close this window only, with control+w or alt+f4.
  3. the third, is the native NVDA message box, use it only after testing and if it suits you, for in our experience it sometimes make NVDA freezes.
• After that you got a check box, to choose whether to close Dictionaries Almaany dialog after requesting the meaning of word or not.

Available Dictionaries

These are the available dictionaries used in the addon:

• English ⇔ English
• English ⇔ French
• English ⇔ Spanish
• English ⇔ Chinese
• English ⇔ Russian
• English ⇔ Portuguese
• English ⇔ Italian
• English ⇔ Bulgarian
• English ⇔ Croatian
• English ⇔ Dutch
• English ⇔ German
• English ⇔ Greek
• English ⇔ Hebrew
• English ⇔ Hindi
• English ⇔ Hungarian
• English ⇔ Japanese
• English ⇔ Korean
• English ⇔ Romanian
• English ⇔ Swedish
• English ⇔ Turkish
• English ⇔ Arabic

Changes for 0.4

• Update last tested version, so now the addon is compatible with NVDA 2024.1.

Changes for 0.3

• Update last tested version, thus make the addon compatible with NVDA 2023.1.

Changes for 0.2

• Add Turkish translation for the addon.

Changes for 0.1

• Initial version.

Contributions

• umut korkmaz, thank you for supporting the Turkish translation of the addon.