While I love Pleco and use it as my main Chinese flashcard studying tool. I have a couple of decks on Anki that allow me to use more multimedia (which Pleco doesn't offer as to date). Anyway, here is my question: The new Ankimobile (i.e. iphone/ipad version) allow for looking up words from 3rd party apps. In order to make it work, this is what is says in the directions:
"To look up text in another app, you need to find out if that app supports a URL scheme to call it from another application. Many dictionary applications do. For example, one of the default links is for a dictionary program called iDict+. It uses a link like:
idictplus://?search=mysearchstring&scheme=returnlink
To make this work with AnkiMobile, we would replace it with the following:
idictplus://?search={0}&scheme=anki://
* Use {0} to refer to the current text in the clipboard.
* If your dictionary app supports a "return to app" link, use 'anki://'
Another example is a dictionary app called kotoba, which uses a different lookup syntax and doesn't support passing back the return address:
kotoba://dictionary?word={0}
And one more app example:
ebpocket://search?text={0}#anki://
Unfotunately there is no consistency among apps, and no central registry of calling schemes. Thus to use your favourite dictionary app, you will need to search in google, or contact your dictionary app's author for more information."
Will this work with Anki and, if so, which lookup syntax would one use? Thanks in advance for anyones help in this matter.
"To look up text in another app, you need to find out if that app supports a URL scheme to call it from another application. Many dictionary applications do. For example, one of the default links is for a dictionary program called iDict+. It uses a link like:
idictplus://?search=mysearchstring&scheme=returnlink
To make this work with AnkiMobile, we would replace it with the following:
idictplus://?search={0}&scheme=anki://
* Use {0} to refer to the current text in the clipboard.
* If your dictionary app supports a "return to app" link, use 'anki://'
Another example is a dictionary app called kotoba, which uses a different lookup syntax and doesn't support passing back the return address:
kotoba://dictionary?word={0}
And one more app example:
ebpocket://search?text={0}#anki://
Unfotunately there is no consistency among apps, and no central registry of calling schemes. Thus to use your favourite dictionary app, you will need to search in google, or contact your dictionary app's author for more information."
Will this work with Anki and, if so, which lookup syntax would one use? Thanks in advance for anyones help in this matter.