Feature Request: Clickable Entries in Popup Dictionary for Deeper Lookup

[anhnha]

Would it be possible to add support for clicking on words within the popup dictionary (in Clip Reader or Screen Reader) to look them up directly?

For example, something like how Yomitan works—where you can click on any word in a definition to see its meaning, and even go multiple levels deep. This would make it much easier to explore unfamiliar words within definitions without needing to manually copy and paste them back into the dictionary.

 

[mikelove]

You can tap on the leftmost button in the top toolbar to bring up the full definition screen for whatever word you looked up, which will give you access not only to tap lookups within the definition but also words / chars / strokes / examples.

 

[anhnha]

I'm aware of that, but it's a bit inconvenient when you have to do it a lot.

 

[mikelove]

Are you trying to drill down into individual character meanings, or are you trying to look up Chinese words in Chinese-Chinese definitions?

 

[anhnha]

I'm aware that the arrows allow for single-word selection.
However, my main goal is to be able to look up the meaning of any Chinese word that appears in a popup dictionary—similar to Yomitan, which allows you to set any levels of popups and check definition of a word in any popup.

 

[mikelove]

So these are Chinese definitions and you'd like to be able to tap on words in them to look them up?

 

[anhnha]

Yes, but it doesn't have to be a Chinese-Chinese dictionary. The Chinese words I want to check can also be found in Chinese-English or other bilingual dictionaries.I would like to tap and open a new popup instead of opening the full dictionary, which is slower and requires me to return to the previous popup. This might be asking too much, but ideally, I’d like to have a popup within a popup—just like in Yomitan.

 

[mikelove]

Sorry, I'm just trying to understand what kind of words these are - if they're linked then you should already be able to tap on them to look them up (admittedly in a separate window but at least it's only the one tap), if they're not linked then are you referring to some other sort of cross-reference that we're not linking correctly? Maybe we could find a way to make that easier to link to even without having a separate popup bubble.

Also, are you on an iPad? I'm not wild about the bubble on bubble idea, but one idea we have been playing around with is letting iPad users dispense with the bubble entirely and simply show a smaller version of the regular definition screen in a popup, which would give you all the same cross-referencing support that that has (including its own regular bubble). Yomitan seems like it's primarily designed around large screens, and it shows something more akin to our full definition screen as its popup display.

 

[anhnha]

I'm talking about the popup in Clip Reader. Unfortunately, the popup disappears when I try to take a screenshot, so I don't have an image.
But I don't think there are any dictionary links in the popup that I can tap to look up words directly.
Actually, I have an iPad, but I don't use it much. I use mobile mostly.
Yomitan works okay on small screens too, as its popups can overlap.