youdao_like

Press shortcut to look up selected word, add words to wordbook to recite.

I use it on Ubuntu, Mac, Windows.

Ugly and a little bit hard to make it work the first time.

Data synchronization

I use nutstore to synchronize db and xml files among platforms(previously dropbox).

There is a variable in utils.py, you can change it if you have different path, make sure it is available on all platforms.

YOUDAO_SYNC_PATH = '~/nuts/youdao_db_xml/'  # endswith '/'

Installation:

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-dev xsel wmctrl python-wxgtk2.8 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
sudo pip install -i http://pypi.douban.com/simple/ peewee requests lxml

run:

python my_youdao.py &

shortcut: left ctrl + left shift

notes: GUI doesn't pop up if minimized.

Mac

brew install wxpython
sudo pip install -i http://pypi.douban.com/simple/ peewee requests lxml

Add a service(with shortcut ctrl+shift+y) using Automator to run my_youdao.py or just run it in terminal

Add a service(with shortcut ctrl+cmd+z) using Automator to run selected.py

Windows

You have to install AutoHotKey, then run selected.ahk by double-clicking it.

You have to set two env variables, TCL_LIBRARY, TK_LIBRARY, such as:

set "TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Python27\tcl\tcl8.5"
set "TK_LIBRARY=C:\Python27\tcl\tk8.5"

Install third-party libraries:

easy_install -i http://pypi.douban.com/simple/ peewee requests lxml

run:

python my_youdao.py

shortcut: alt+z or win+z or shift+z, you can change it in selected.ahk

How I run it?

I am customed to Windows console and terminals.

I have a repository called os_settings

On Windows: qui<tab> yd, to be clear: quick_edit_mode.bat yd.

On Ubuntu: yd, an alias.

Nothing special on Mac.