Esper 2.4 build: 9639 released: 2011-12-22 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Esperanta Tradukilo Vortope, a word-for-word Esperanto translator. Copyright: (c) 2000-2017 Canadian Mind Products. signed Java Web Start application. Download from: http://mindprod.com/products2.html#ESPER View HTML to run this program online at: http://mindprod.com/webstart/esper.html ---- Notes: You must install the Java JRE to use this program. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html This program requires a manual install! See below. I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it? It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great. ===> Free <=== Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute. May be used freely for any purpose but military. For more details on this restriction, see http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications, your app too must be labelled non-military use only. http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under any OS that supports Java, (e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86 /LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...) so long as you have <><> Java version 1.8 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java). See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details. ---- Installing on a PC: Download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as a Java Web Start application. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. To install, extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ -- ticking off the use folder names option. To run the JWS application, modify the jnlp file to look in the right place for its files, then type: javaws J:\com\mindprod\esper\esper.jnlp adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as a Java Web Start application. Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5) [or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)]. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home. To run the JWS application, modify the jnlp file to look in the right place for its files, then in a bash shell type: open Terminal.app cd ~/Desktop javaws.exe com/mindprod/esper/esper.jnlp adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is.I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility. In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen. If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages. ---- Rebuilding: The zip already contains the necessary jar files, so unless you modify the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar. Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are. Configure.java your certificate name with environment SET cert=mindprodcert2017rsa Configure.java your certificate password with environment SET jarsignerpassword=sesame Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar. ---- Use: A crude translator Esperanto To English and English to Esperanto. It works by looking up words in various dictionaries on the web. It mindlessly translates word for word. (1) First download and install the lastest Java JRE from http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jre.html (2) Using WinZip (from http://www.winzip.com) extract the files into the default com\mindprod\esper directory. (3) Create a shortcut setting by right clicking the desktop and selecting new shortcut. (4) Set the shortcut target to: C:\Program Files\Javasoft\JRE\1.3\bin\java.exe -jar esper.jar (5) Set the start in directory to: C:\com\mindprod\esper (6) Select any icon that suits your fancy, there is a green star in the esper directory "Esperanta Tradukilo.ico". (7) To use the program, make sure you have an Internet connection then click the icon. You don't need a browser. It runs stand-alone as an application. The translator works quite slowly, especially if you use a lot of words that it can't find in any online dictionary. It gradually gets faster as it learns your vocabulary. It is also embarrassingly slow to start. The Java runtime takes a long time to waddle to its feet. This version does not analyse prefixes and suffixes. You can help the Esperanto to English translation along by converting verbs to their infinitive -i form, e.g. amas to ami and by breaking prefixes and suffixes off, e.g. mallonga -> mal-longa and grandega -> granda. Remove the terminal -n and -j e.g. knabojn -> knabo. In a potential future version this should not be necessary. ---- Version History: 1.1 2000-08-29 mini dictionary of short words. 1.2 2000-08-30 colour to encode languages 1.3 2000-08-31 automatic installers 1.4 2000-09-05 various locals dictionaries, persistent cache, persistent unknowns, no prefix/suffix analysis however, nothing extra for English>Esperanto. 1.5 2000-09-07 simplify. Combine local dictionaries. added many rude words. 1.6 2000-09-10 add Ergane dict Esperanto > English reorganise logic using AllDicts and Vortaroj to isolate multidictionary logic failed attempt at displaying word by word as translation is generated. unknown for English>Esperanto cache for English>Esperanto 1.7 2000-09-28 added Ergane English>Esperanto dictionary 1.8 2001-04-27 Web Start install, new InstallAnywhere Now 1.9 2002-04-21 remove InstallAnywhere, put in package com.mindprod.esper 2.0 2005-08-03 add about box, ANT builds. 2.1 2006-03-05 reformat with IntelliJ, add Javadoc 2.2 2008-04-06 add build to title, tidy code, fix spelling errors. 2.3 2010-03-23 user selectable look and feel. 2.4 2011-12-22 update JNLP. -30-