New user - help with flashcard list installation

[mlim]

Just got Pleco for Pocket PC. Amazing product, I am hoping this will help me make it to the next level of Mandarin!

I am trying to install the ABC and PCR flashcards and am following the instructions on the web. I am running a Pocket PC on Windows XP. The problem I have is when I drag the flashcard files over to the Mobile Device folder - it won't let me drag them into this folder. I've tried dragging them into the folder that I use to synchronize files to my PDA, and have been able to use this to at least get the files onto my PDA so they are viewable by File Explorer. However, when I go into Pleco, I still can't see the files for Import, even though I go into the same folder where they were previously visable in File Explorer.

Help! I am not very tech savvy and have just gotten this Pocket PC so am not very experienced with setup!

Another quick question, I notice that there are new files called plecodict flashcards.peb and PlecoDict User DB C-E.peb created in my mobile device directory. Is it possible to move these into another folder to keep things tidy, or do they need to stay here in this directory?

Thanks again for a great product.

Anybody have flashcards for Integrated Chinese textbooks?

 

[mikelove]

Try dragging the flashcard text file out of the .zip archive and on to your desktop before you copy it to Mobile Device, and make sure that you drag it into the Mobile Device window (i.e., double-click on the Mobile Device icon and then drag the files into that window) rather than dropping them onto the Mobile Device icon itself. ActiveSync is a bit finicky about file copying, but doing those two things should get it working.

As for the files not showing up in the import list, are you sure that you were moving the .txt files and not the .zip archives? Have you tried exitting PlecoDict (using the Quit command in the Dict menu) and then reopening it?

You can indeed move the two .peb files to another folder, but it would be best if you kept them in your Pocket PC's internal memory (and not on an expansion card) since expansion cards can be unreliable and putting them on a card might increase the odds of the files getting corrupted.

I think someone mentioned Integrated Chinese here a while ago - if you do a search for "Integrated Chinese" you might find a couple of references to it.

 

[lmcjipo]

Integrated Chinese (ISBN: 0-88727-263-0)

Anybody have flashcards for Integrated Chinese textbooks?

I use flashcards on my Treo 650 that I created based on the Integrated Chinese simplified edition textbook (ISBN: 0-88727-263-0) which was used in my Mandarin class. I believe that what I have is the first edition since students right now taking the same Mandarin class that I took are using a later edition. There are a few mistakes (less than 10) in my textbook. In about 1 or 2 of the 11 lessons, the supplementary vocabulary has 1 or 2 new terms/words in the newer edition that aren't included in my edition.

Due to an earlier problem when I created my Integrated Chinese flashcards, and because I wanted to refine it, I had to recreate them and I now only have the Introduction (Numbers) to Lesson 6 (Making Appointments).

There are some issues (more like annoyances) with my Integrated Chinese flashcards but this is probably due to the way I entered my Chinese characters, pinyin, and definitions.

I never received a reply or acknowledgement from the publisher on whether I could post my flashcards so I never did as mentioned in my post on the flashcard exchange thread viewtopic.php?t=512

 

[mlim]

Thanks

Thanks Mike, that did the trick. Once I import the flashcards, is it then OK to delete the text files?

 

[mikelove]

Yes, you can delete the text files after importing.

lmcjipo - sorry they never wrote back, there seem to be a lot of people using those books so it would be nice to have something for them.

 

[gato]

You can find some "Integrated Chinese" flashcards here:
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/search ... rch=Search

 

[lmcjipo]

lmcjipo - sorry they never wrote back, there seem to be a lot of people using those books so it would be nice to have something for them.

They never said that I couldn't post it either :wink:

Do you know if PlecoDict's flashcard system supports punctuation in the Chinese character field and the pinyin field?

I think that because I placed punctuation marks (either "..." or "."/"?"/",") in my Integrated Chinese flashcard's Chinese character field and/or the pinyin field, PlecoDict's flashcard system has some weird issues with it (sometimes not using my custom definitions and using the dictionary definitions or not using my customized pinyin entry and using the various dictionaries' pinyin entry).

The "..." does show up fine when I use my flashcards but I'm not sure that they are 100% supported because when I export my flashcards to my SD memory card from my Treo 650, the punctuation marks in the Chinese character fields are removed (at least for the "..." entries that I have). This is the annoyance that I was referencing in my earlier post.

 

[mikelove]

It doesn't support them officially, no - as I keep apologetically stating on these forums, the flashcard import/export function is still sort of hack-ish since it was mainly designed to let us distribute ready-made flashcard lists. So if you want things to work well you should try to use as little punctuation in the headwords as possible. (this should be corrected in 2.0, at whatever point in the hopefully-not-too-ludicrously-distant-future that comet out)