Kongzi Beta-3 and the Quest for Icons

All the bugs seem to be worked out. I figured out how to use Inno Setup, which is an amazing tool (for windows anyways). I still don’t know what free multi-platform installers I can use, or what commercial ones would be best for me. So gee, now I am faced with *many* problems that I [...]

Kongzi Beta-2

Kongzi is growing – it is now 4,000 lines of code. Feast your eyes on the new Tag Tree System (shown above). Additionally, I’ve improved the load/save functions – you can now export tag lists, and they are generally much smaller than exporting word lists – by several times. For example, one popular application seems [...]

Dynamically modifying nodes in a JTree

First let me just say I hate JTrees. Now, let’s proceed. When you first try to learn how to use a JTree, the examples you find will set up a tree, say with DefaultMutableTreeNodes, and then add them to the tree, which gets displayed. All neat and nice. Well thats crap, I say, because they [...]

Seven Things about Me

Uh oh. I knew this would happen eventually. Chessman of FormosaNeijia has tagged me with one of those ridiculous memes. Well at least he tagged me first, before my arch-rival Tim Fong. Life is good There are a few people I’d like to counter-tag. One is the guy at Dynamic Balancing Tai Chi, just because [...]

Chinese Sudoku Puzzles

Wow – two blog entries in one day! I couldn’t help posting this little gem. I found a sudoku puzzle on the net and started replacing the numbers with Chinese Characters. Enjoy! Number One 三 六 八 四 五 一 四 九 二 八 五 一 二 八 七 三 六 九 五 四 八 [...]

The Missing Link

Before I took Chinese 101 at the U of T way back when, I has tried to learn Chinese by myself. This unique experience helped me to put learning Chinese in an academic environment in perspective. Since that time, I’ve also had the pleasure of being able to speak, read and write more than 500 [...]

Kongzi

For an exciting taste of a new program I’m working on, check out the images above. The program’s name is Kongzi, and all basic features (load, save, add, edit, quiz, stat recording) are finished. I am beginning to devote my time to increase the default dictionary that will come with Kongzi, and to add cool [...]