Q. Hi Judie,

Fantastic review of the Dopod 838 Pro. I’m quite thrilled with mine, since acquiring it in October 2006. I have one big challenge – and a couple smaller ones as well…

When composing text messages, the system dutifully / pedantically stores all word entries that you make (intentionally or otherwise) i.e. , if you type ‘Mary had a little lambbbb’ , and inadvertently hit the space bar as you’re blazing along on the keyboard before correcting the spelling of lamb, the system assumes that you intended to write ‘lambbbb’, and stores that “new” word, seemingly forever.

I have not been able to find out If the internal ‘dictionary” / word suggestion list can be edited by the user. I’d love to be able to refine the list with my own lexicon.

Is there software available that allows this?

Thanks for your time.

Konrad

A. Hi Konrad,

You might give the Word Completion Dictionary Editor a try, I think it will do exactly what you need…

dictionary editor

According to its site:

PocketPC has internal mechanism intended to help user write text – word completion feature. You enable or disable it and change some its options in System > Settings > Input. But there is no way to add your word to dictionary or change words, that system learned from you (yes, it does it sometimes).

All words, system learns from you are placed in custom dictionary. This program is intended to edit

Two dictionaries may exist: main and temporary, dyncompdict.dat and dyncompdict.tmp. I can’t tell right now, why there are two of them and what each of them is intended for.

Each word in dictionary has weight – characteristic that defines word position in popup list. By default, weight = 0 assigned to each word. Maximal value, that you can specify is 50. Actually, you don’t need to change this, system will increase it automatically upon word usage. But sometimes it is useful to customize look of popup list.

Using this utility, you can create, edit and delete one of two dictionaries. Dictionary will be alphabetically sorted, when saved. Words shorter than 4 letters, will be discarded – system will ignore such words anyway. Duplicate words also will be discarded. This done to keep dictionary smaller – there is some limitation on its size – about 7-8kb, larger dictionary will be truncated. Later I will implement size limitation and some optimizations for that.

Now you can use clipboard freely. You can do cut/copy/paste with text in textbox and words in listview. You can copy any list of words, separated by spaces or newlines (e.g. “oneword twoword threeword”) and paste it directly into listview. If you want to add weight to some words, specify it separating by comma directly after word (e.g. “myword,3″). If you paste word, copied from listview somewhere outside this program, you may see its weight, appended at the end (if word had weight higher than 0) like “myword,3″. 

No promises, but it looks like it might be the answer. :-)

Does anyone else know of any other solutions?

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