Installation

If you bought a complete system from me, everything's already installed, tested, and running. You can skip down to the General Use section.

If you bought a dictionary card from me (and told me on the purchase form what model of PDA or SmartPhone you're using), then I included the correct EBPocket installer on the card. If you didn't buy a card from me, download EBPocket , unzip it, and copy the resulting EBPCC folder to your memory card.

Next, with the card back in the PDA or SmartPhone, use File Explorer (ファイル・エクスプローラ) to browse to the EBPPC folder on the card, open the folder marked "cabs" and click on the .cab icon . This will install EBPocket to the Program Files directory in your main memory. You're almost done--skip down to the short paragraph on gsgetfile.

	If you've downloaded the file, there will be MANY cabs to choose from. Check the README file in the cabs folder to see which one is right for your device (all WM2002/2003/2003SE/5.0 users should choose EBPocket.PPC2003En_ARM.cab--choose the same one without "En" if you want a Japanese interface instead of English). Hint--set the font size very small so you can see more of the filenames. Obviously, the real display looks much sharper than shown here. Click either image to see it at full VGA resolution.

If you used EBPocket.PPC2003En_ARM.cab to install EBPocket, the program menus, etc., will be in English. You're finished with the main part of the installation and can skip down to the short paragraph on gsgetfile. Users of old Windows CE devices, however, will get the Japanese interface by default. However, if you open the EngDll folder, then the proper subfolder (check the README in EngDll to see which is the right one for your device), press and hold on the EBRes file until the action menu pops up, and copy it to the clipboard (tap コピー). Then, navigate back up to My Device (マイデバイス), then click Program Files (labelled in English), then EBPocket. Then press and hold in a white area (empty space) until the action menu pops up and paste in the EBRes file (click 貼り付け). Now EBPocket will have an English interface.

gsgetfile: For whatever bizarre reason, the Add Dictionary function in EBPocket doesn't work right out of the box. To make it work, you need to add a small "helper" file to the main EBPocket directory. If you bought a card from me, the correct version of gsgetfile for your device is on the card in the GSgetfile folder. If you go to the folder and can't see the actual file, you need to change an option in ファイルエクスプローラ to "Show all files": press and hold the stylus in an empty area to bring up the pop-up menu, and in it tap すべてのファイルを表示. Copy gsgetfile to the clipboard by pressing and holding the filename until the action menu pops up and choosing コピー, then navigate to the EBPocket program folder (マイ　デバイス\Program Files\EBPocket), press and hold in a white area (empty space) to bring up the action menu, and tap "paste" (貼り付け) to paste the file there. If you downloaded EBPocket, you'll have to download gsgetfile separately, unzip it, choose the correct version for your device (see the README that comes with the file--but WM2002/2003/2003SE/5.0 users should use the one in the ARMRel folder), and use the Explore function of ActiveSync to copy it the EBPocket program folder (マイ　デバイス\Program Files\EBPocket).

Adding Dictionaries/Editing Dictionary Groups

If you're setting up EBPocket for the first time, the easiest thing is to put all your dictionaries on the memory card BEFORE starting EBPocket for the first time. When you start EBPocket for the first time, it automatically finds all dictionaries on your device and adds them to its dictionary list. (If you bought a card from me, that's already taken care of; if you're doing it yourself, you can put them anywhere on the memory card, but see this note on adding dictionaries).

If you add another dictionary to your card later, the easiest approach is to tap Scan All Dictionaries... from the Tool menu. This will find all dictionaries anywhere on your device or memory cards and add them to the default EBPocket dictionary group. If for some reason you want to be more particular and add only one dictionary (but not others), use the "Edit Group" function from the Tool menu at the bottom of the EBPocket screen (obviously Add Dict will also work, but Edit Group is easier and gives you more control).


	When you add a new dictionary (or start EBPocket for the first time), all the dictionaries will be in the default "EBPocket" group. Most people will probably be happy to leave them there--if that's you, then skip down to General Use. If you find your dictionary list getting too long for your taste, you can create different dictionary groups--e.g., put history, biography, Buddhism, and Bible references in a Reference group and keep all the Japanese dictionaries in the EBPocket group (you can't get rid of or change the name of the EBPocket group). Tap "Edit Group..." from the Tool menu. Use the down arrow in the "Group" box to choose from the current groups, New to create a new group, and delete to delete a group. Now you can add and subtract dictionaries from your different groups.

General Use

Main Screen at full VGA size--on a VGA PDA like the Axim X50V, the image has the same 480x640 pixels you see below, but in a smaller screen, so it actually looks a bit sharper than this (same number of pixels in fewer inches = more pixels per inch = higher resolution)


Current dictionary
				Find button & search type
Search box
List of results
				Drag the dividing line up or down to change the relative sizes of the two parts of the screen.
Full search results
	Back & Forward arrows	Hop highlight next instance of search term	Split Toggle split screen/full screen

Looking up words.

Enter a character, word, or phrase in the search box (see the IME page for how to enter text) and tap Find. This will look it up in the current dictionary. Alternatively, you can choose a different dictionary from the Dict... menu to look up a word in that (it looks it up as soon as you tap the other dictionary--you don't need to tap Find). That's all you need to know to look up words in EBPocket.

I generally keep Search Type set to Begin (which is the default). Thus, if I enter "bully," the search will find all terms beginning with "bully." At times, searching Eijiro or Waeijiro--the biggest dictionaries--can take 2-3 seconds this way. If you change the search type to "Exact," the search is nearly instantaneous. I don't mind the wait, so I don't bother changing the setting. Also, Exact searches don't work in Edict (a feature, not a bug! designing it this way puts more information in the results index, convenient for quick reference). Especially when searching for Japanese words, sometimes you know the final kanji or two but not the beginning of the word; in this case, choose End as the search type and it'll find words ending in the search term. Finally, Full searches the full text of the dictionary. Thus, if you enter "horse," it'll find every entry in which the word "horse" appears. This can take forever, and if you enter a Full search for a common kanji or word in a huge dictionary like Eijiro, you might have to sit there watching your PPC's "I'm thinking" icon for quite a few minutes. It's useful when you need it, but be careful with the Full search option. In Eijiro and Waeijiro, you also have the option of doing Cross search (much faster and better focused than Full, as it searches only the keywords)--see the Eijiro page for details on Cross.

Super Jump

You can drag the stylus across any character, word, or phrase to select it, then press and hold the stylus on the highlighted text to bring up an action window, from which you can look it up in the current dictionary (Search Word) or any other dictionary (Specific Dictionary, then choose the dictionary). This is great for finding the meaning or pronunciation of a Japanese word in a definition--or in any other EPWING document on your PDA (the Bible, various encyclopedias, Buddhist texts, historical and biographical dictionaries)--or looking up a new kanji. (This feature is usually called "super jump" in electronic dictionaries. Animation is from an older version of Eijiro)

History/Back/Forward

Pretty simple. Tap the down arrow in the Search box to bring up a list of previous searches (oddly, you usually have to do it twice--the first time, the list flashes up and disappears, the second time it stays). Tapping an item in the list puts in the Search box but neither initiates a search (you still have to tap Find) nor changes the dictionary. From the History option in the Edit menu, you can erase your current history, save it for future reference, or load a previously saved history.

The blue Back Arrow at the bottom of the screen takes you back to the screen and dictionary you were in previously--and it remembers quite a few previous steps. After you've gone Back, then you use the Forward Arrow to go forward. These work just like the forward and back buttons on your web browser. Note--sometimes the buttons are grayed out but still work if you tap them.

Menus and Buttons

From the Dict menu, you can change dictionaries and dictionary groups.

Edit contains the usual suspects--cut, paste, copy, select all, find (I suspect this intended for reading eBooks rather than dictionaries--with dictionaries, it seems to duplicate the function of the search box)--plus a couple of more interesting options. History... lets you delete, save, and load histories, as described above. Cursor Mode--hmm, I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to do, but what it really does is make the cursor more responsive to stylus action. With Cursor Mode off, dragging over a word to select it can be imprecise--it's like picking up beans when you're wearing mittens. With Cursor Mode on, it's much easier. I don't understand why there's an option to turn it off.

The Find menu gives you some fancy search options with certain dictionaries--seems like they'd be more useful with an encyclopedia, but I haven't tried them out, so I can't say much about them.

The Tool menu has the aforementioned Add Dict..., Scan All Dictionaries..., and Edit Group... functions. Goto seems like it should duplicate the forward and back buttons, but doesn't seem to do anything on mine. Copyright brings up copyright information--but some dictionary makers (hint, hint) also include some help information here. Continuous will show you a continuous stream of results in the lower search results window, not just the result you've tapped in the results index window above, but that entry and the following and preceding ones--the one you tapped will be first, but you can scroll up and down through the dictionary. I recommend selecting Continuous--no reason not to. Options... brings up various options, including setting the fonts and font size in the results and results index windows--the rest is all pretty self-explanatory, though I just leave everything except the type sizes at the defaults. Status Bar causes a status bar to appear just above the bottom toolbar--tells you things like, "23 results in Eijiro." I don't think it's worth the screen space it takes up, but if you like it, enjoy.

The Hop button highlights the first instance of the search term; press it again and the highlight jumps to the next instance--etc. The Split button toggles between the two states of the main window--(1) a split screen with a list of results on the top and the full text of the results on the bottom (as shown above) and (2) the full text of the results taking up the full window. The letter "A" in the screenshot above (at other times, you might see a hiragana "あ" or a graphic here) brings up the text input system, in whichever mode it was last used: あ, for whatever odd reason, is the symbol for the numerical and symbol input keyboard; A is the alphanumeric keyboard to enter English or Japanese (works just like the IME on your regular computer); the hand-and-brush graphic is for handwritten input (the kanji recognition is fantastic); and the hand-and-stylus graphic is for a shorthand entry system that seems a lot like Grafitti on the Palm (hint: as you write a character, a list of choices will appear--tap the one you want, or simply wait and the first option will automatically be chosen; if you don't want to wait, start writing the next character in the next of the three boxes).

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