Mathieu Tozer's Dev Blog

What should I do next?
I'm at a bit of a loss at which feature to attack next.
Dictionary lookup? This is the crux of the app, learning the meaning of words. So having the meaning there should be paramount!

There are core features, essential to the application, then there are the auxillary nicieties that yes, must be there, but are easier to implement when you have the product features there to prop them up.

For example, I couldn't hope to implement drag and drop before I had implemented the grouping system.
And before I have a dictionary management system, there isn't really any point in making a lovely preference pane or tool bar to hold the pretty icons.

So I could probably work on the dictionary lookup system.

Thinking about the problem.
Dictionaries are managed by core data. Their attributes and association to a language are set up so.
However, how am I going to make it possible to give suggested dictionaries to users, as well as allowing them to define their own custom dictionaries?
And I'm going to want to be able to see them in the same view.

Starting at the elemetary level of a dictionary object, I'm going to go right ahead and design the attributes I think each dictionary will need.

It's Name : JEDict
The Language it can translate to : ENG-JAP
The language it can translate from : ENG-JAP
It's own icon

Is there an industry standard for codifying this up?
I should discuss this with Jim this Friday if possible