Maagim Araby

• Author: Ibrahim Hamadeh
• NVDA compatibility: 2019.3 and later
• Download version 1.5.1

This addon helps you get the meaning of single arabic words or phrases
from several Arabic dictionaries present on almaany.com website.
almaany.com.

Usage

• Press nvda+Alt+M, Maagim Araby dialog will be displayed
  and you will be standing on an edit field
  if when pressing this command, you were standing on a selected word, the word will be put in the edit field
• otherwise, enter in the edit field the arabic word or phrase you want
  tab an choose the arabic dictionary you want and press enter on it.
  if you want to get the meaning in the default, the comprehensive almaany arabic 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 moreover, going to addon's setting dialog, through:
  NVDA menu/preferences/Settings/Maagim Araby
  from there, you can 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 brar.
     please remember you can close this window only, with control+w or alt+f4.
  3. the third, is the native NVDA message box, used it only after testing and if it suits you, for in our experience it smetimes make NVDA freezes.
• From that setting dialog, you can also choose whether to close Maagim Araby dialog after requesting the meaning of word or not.
• Lastly you got a check box, to enable or disable the auto update of addon on start of NVDA.
  It is enabled by default, and you may disable it if you wish.

Changes for 1.5.1

• update last tested version, thus making the addon compatible with NVDA 2024.1.

Changes for 1.5

• Add auto update feature, that checks for new versions on startup.
• Add check box for auto update in setting panel, it is activated by default, and you can deactivate it.

Changes for 1.4

• Update last tested version to Make the addon compatible with NVDA 2023.1.

Changes for 1.3

• Make the addon compatible with NVDA 2022.1.
• Removing pieces of unWanted text from the page, that was added recently, by using regular expression and replacing it with an empty string.

Changes for 1.2

• Fiix a bug happened lately in the addon, most likely due to changes in server The bug was fixed by removing the old user agent, and use instead user_agent module.

Changes for 1.0

• Initial version.