Instructions on how to use DictionaryForMIDs

The startup screen:

Here you just type the word for which you search the translation.

You can also use wildcard characters for your search:
* matches any series of characters
? matches any single character

Then you open the Menu.

New with version 2.5.0:
Substring search can be turned off by putting a / at the beginning or the end.
Example, for a dictionary with the following entries:
(1) home
(2) go home
Searching for "home" will find (1) and (2).
Searching for "/home" will find (1) only.
Searching for "home/" will find (2) only.

Here is the menu:

In the menu you select "Translate".

Note:
On most cell phones/PDAs there will also be a "quick key" for starting a translation. So in order to translate you just can press that 'quick key', instead of going though the menu.

And here is the translation result:

This was an example for an English to Spanish translation.

For changing the translation direction, select in the Menu "Settings":

This is the setting for translating from English to Spanish.

If you want to translate from Spanish to English, you set "From language" to Spanish and the "To language will automatically jump to English".

Activating "Show statistics" will display on the translation screen some interesting information such as the time needed to find a translation and the available free memory of the cell phone/PDA.

Under "Performance" there is the selection for "Disable incremental search" and "Bypass charset decoding":

"Disable incremental search" deactivates the incremental search feature (deactivated by default). With incremental search, the matching translations are shown while typing. Incremental search requires a _very_ fast device.

Use "Bypass charset decoding" only if you have an old cell phone/PDA and your search time is too slow (for newer cell phones/PDAs the search time should be very fast in all cases). Activating this option will significantly speed up searches for such old devices. With "Bypass charset decoding" activated, the dictionary characters are directly mapped to the native cell phone/PDA charset, without doing a character conversion.
Depending on the cell phone/PDA model, this
- will probably work well for dictionaries with ASCII charset encoding
- should work well for dictionaries with ISO-8859-1 charset encoding
- definitely does not work with dictionaries that contain multibyte UNICODE characters.

Press "Apply" when you are done with the settings. The new settings will take effect immediately, there is no need to restart.

The info-dialog contains some informations about the configurated dictionary and of course about DictionaryForMIDs:

Note that some more information is shown when you scroll downwards in the dialog.