yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Marsbar:
Wow, thanks for searching that out!

Wikipedia reckons (in the page about the band "Paik") that paik is slang meaning a punch to the gut, but they have no references either. Hmph.

It annoyed me because it seems to have some really really obscure words but won't let me have "zo" (which I often used as a rescue word at scrabble when growing up) or "bap" (I guess that's an English, not American, word?).

Would the SOWPODS dictionary be too big RAM-wise? 267000 words (or so). At least then I'd know that my Anglicised vocab is more likely to work!

Failing that, what do you think about adding a "force" button to allow words that Scrobble doesn't know? I know that opens up the way for people to cheat but really you're only cheating yourself...

Another request. I know (you mentioned it before when someone asked) the board is too small when you shrink it down on your VGA device but bear in mind that it's mainly the DPI that changes - so on a qvga device the letters are currently much bigger and (IMO) could afford to be half the size (that way they'd translate to the same physical size as the current letters on a vga device but just with less resolution). Dragging the board around makes the game far more difficult to play because you can't just glance and see the areas where a word might fit.

Thanks again for the game!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Escupiticinio:
Spanish

Hi.

I am new at this forum and as far as I have read, in order to make a dictionary in Spanish you need a clear list of words in capital letters. I made one from L.txt list posted on Feb 17 (here).

We have in Spanish the letter "Ñ" (ñ -> "eñe"), so I have replaced any occurrence by double "N" (e.g. "España" turns in "ESPANNA").

I would be very grateful if you could made d1-ES.scro and d2-ES.scro files to enrich your gorgeous work.

You can find attached the dictionary which consist of 636599 words!

I hope you can make this work.

:o I apologize for any inconveniences (and for my terrible English)

TIA

I've uploaded here the dictionary: (ES-636599.zip) ... I don't know where lie hidden my first attachment!! :eek: --> View attachment 159124

:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lluisinho:
New languages

Hello everybody!!!

I'm from Barcelona and i want to send you a spanish dictionary and a catalan dictionary. In the previous post there are a spanish dictionary and now i give you a catalan dictionary. It's enough?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Marsbar:
Sowpods attached as a zip file (max compression). Uncompressed it's nearly 3MB - would that be OTT?

I extracted it from the free sowpods dictionary that's on most of the freeware sites which gave me to assume that there's no copyright on it.

Ta!

Geoff
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alexcun:
scrobble in spanish

Hello y get the multilanguagues dicts, but I didn't see in spanish do you have it, i will apreciatte a lot :) it is a great game, and a great program

Alex
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Okay I have attached the Spanish dictionary in Scrobble format. Unzip the two files, place them in your main Scrobble program folder and restart Scrobble. Then choose the dictionary from the Options menu.

(I haven't tested this dictionary yet but if it doesn't work then it means the source text file dictionary was either too large, contained duplicates, or some other problem... but probably not invalid letters).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
I like the idea about forcing the dictionary to use a word. The only drawback to this is that it wouldn't be able to add the word to the dictionary, only "let it slide." I have kind of gotten burnt-out on Scrobble development and have moved on to another project, so it may be awhile before I get back to Scrobble and release another version.

The dictionary that was used in v1.2 was [I believe] the SOWPODS dictionary. It had a similar number of words. Many people complained it contained way too many obscure words. Under the main post look at Multi-Language Support, download the language/dictionary pack, and d1-en-SOWPODS.scro and d2-en-SOWPODS.scro are included in this zip file.

I see what you mean about sub-VGA screens and the DPI changing... but unfortunately Visual Studio makes it difficult to support multiple screen sizes. If I develop it for VGA then it automatically resizes for QVGA/WVGA. I don't really have any control over it. I could make a separate project for lower resolutions, but this would involve copying code and a lot of work. (There's probably a more complex way I could do it that would involve dynamically drawing the board based on screen size, but that would be a lot of work!).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
I have attached a Catalan zip file.

The text file you gave me contained several "errors" -- so I fixed them using my best guess as to what it should be. There were some characters my text editor couldn't read, so I just removed them. I also replaced letters such as Ñ with N.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Marsbar:
Hey, no problem. That's the nature of free stuff!

Y'see, I like that. I can see the computer come up with bizarro words and look them up later, almost like a "Word Of The Day". At least that way I can use the words I want too :-)

I'll grab that one and have a play. Thanks again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lluisinho:
Thanks, acrosser
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lluisinho:
Many thanks tou you, acrosser
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Xanthous:
Thank you for this great game! My wife loves scrabble, so now we can have quality time with my new phone. :-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
You're welcome! Glad I could make your marriage even stronger! ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] alexcun:
Hello Acrosser, I try the Spanish dictnonary and after I put the first word when the turn go too the second player its breake out with this error:

ScrobbleGame.exe

IndexOutOfRangeException

en ScrobbleGame.SharpDawn.GetNodeAt(Int32 line, Int32 position)

en ScrobbleGame.AnagramDwan.findForString(String LettersIn)

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.DetermineAllPossibleWords(WordSpacewordSpace)

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.FindMovesPerTile(Tile a Tile, Int32 Direction)

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.FindMovesPerTile(Tila a Tile)

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.FindAllCPUMoves()

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.DoCPUTurn()

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.DoNextTurn()

en ScrobbleGame.ScrobbleForm.butPassToNextPlayer_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)

en System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)

en System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)

en System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WnProc(WM wm, INT32 wParam, Int32 |Param)

en System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, INT32 wParam, Int32 |Param)

Microsft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop(IntPtr hwnMain)

en System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form fm)

en ScrobbleGame.Program.Main()

Thanks for the Spanish dictonary and if i can help you let me now please.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] del4:
Just came across this great game while checking out Gecko and am very impressed!!! My only requests would be to remember the names/player settings from the last run, using them as defaults for the next game, as well as the ability to save a game. I understand the issue about not wanting to bloat the software, but this would seem to be a standard game option, so I'm hoping you'll reconsider and add this in a future release. Either way, great job on this app!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ryosaeba77:
Hello

i played your great game for a time now... and it's very funny!!

Just the same thing: have you think about change the value and the number of the letters in fonction of the country where we play (function of the dictionnary...)

That last option is very usefull!!

ryo
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Read this if you are wondering about a save game feature

Thanks! Good to see it's on Gecko now.

I agree about saving the user's name. That would be easy and I will look into that.

But when I want to "save" my game and pick it up later I just hit the Home button on my phone and switch to some other task, leaving Scrobble in the background. Then I use the HTC Task Manager to switch back to Scrobble and finish my game. I know this uses up resources, but when I tested RAM usage it was only at 3.4MB (and processor usage when in the background should be next to nothing). Could this method work for you? A "poor man's" Save Game feature?? :) The only other drawback is that you can't turn your phone off.

To see it from a programmer's perspective, here are all the things I would have to save in order to implement a Save Game feature:

- Exactly which letters are in the bag.

- Which letters are in each player's tray and which are on the board.

- Each player's score, the last word played, the number of times players have skipped consecutively.

- The name and type of each player (human/CPU) and whose turn it is currently, and which # of turn it is.

- maybe some other minor data

I would have to convert all of these data/objects to a string form that could be saved to a file, then load them all back in from the file back into data/object/code form.

In short, it's definitely do-able, but I'm too lazy right now (see paragraph below) to continue working on a free game. (21,000 downloads and no donations so far... not that I'm complaining! I offer Scrobble for free with no expectation of donations because I enjoy writing software and sharing it with people. :) I'm just saying... where's the motivation, when saving your game could be achieved by switching back to the Home/Today screen and then switching back to the game later? ;) ).

HOWEVER... :) ...I just got a G1/Dream and I have started to develop apps for Android. I want to make a version of Scrobble for that platform. The layout of the board and some other aspects will be a little different from Scrobble, but the underlying engine will be very similar. And I am planning on implementing a Save Game feature for that version. So once I finish that I will hopefully be able port it back to Scrobble pretty easily.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] del4:
Sounds good, thanks!

Yes, the "poor man's" Save Game feature works for now, but the only thing is that if you don't get back to your game before your next soft reset, say when doing a daily backup, or daily reset to clear your memory, you've lost your game. Not a big deal and, given all the work it would take to implement the save feature, definitely understandable why you'd want to hold off on doing it. However, given how much work it would take to implement this functionality, I'm curious why you're even considering it for the planned Android version of Scrobble? Wouldn't you have the same reasons for not adding the Save option there as well??? :confused:

BTW, I was very disappointed in our user community when you mentioned that there had been over 21,000 downloads of Scrobble, but no donations! :( I just made a well-deserved donation and hope others will begin to do the same to compensate another great xda-devs contributor. :)

Good luck on the Android version and here's to hoping that you start getting some much-deserved donations for your hard work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PeteSX:
Paypal link and simpe British English dictionary

Hi Acrosser,

Firstly, many thanks for a great game.

Maybe you could post a paypal donate link somewhere? I've had a quick look on spacetornado.com, this forum, and the help/about in Scrobble, but there's nothing obvious. (Or I'm going blind in my old age ;-)

Finally, like many others my only frustration with the game is the use of really obscure words, yet the omission of what I'd call common ones - "wealthiest" isn't in the dictionary that comes with 1.3, though it is in the 1.2 dictionary.

If there's any chance you could DAWG (or whatever the term is) the attached file I think it would be appreciated by your British cousins over the pond. Essentially it's a British English Concise Dictionary with all Capitalized words and words with accents, umlauts, hyphenated words, obvious abreviations (that are terminated with a period.) etc. stripped out. Scrabble purists won't like it as a lot of the 124 2 letter words are missing but in days gone by they were the rules - no proper nouns, no abbreviations, no "foreign" words, and many of the official 2 letter words fall into one or more of those catagories.

Once again though, many thanks for a great game.

Cheers, Pete
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] del4:
It's in the first post, near the bottom:

DONATE

====================================

If you enjoy Scrobble and would like to donate money to encourage further development, feel free to do so via PayPal.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PeteSX:
Doh!

Thanks Del4, was only joking about going blind, now I'm not so sure ;-)

Made a small donation, hopefully others will follow.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Many you're welcomes! :) Yes I have DAWG'ed the dictionary you created (that's as good of term as any!)... I attached it to the 2nd post in this thread: dict-BritEnConcise.zip. If people don't like it, they can modify your zipped text file and I can create a custom DAWG'ed dictionary for them.

I am thinking of releasing the tool I use to create the DAWG'ed/Scrobbled version of text file dictionaries. It's very easy. You pre-process the text file by clicking "Pre-process" then you click "Generate Dawg." That creates 2 .txt files in your My Docs. You rename those to d1-whatever.scro and d2-whatever.scro. (I didn't create the tool, and I am having trouble exporting it as an .exe, so that's why I haven't done so yet). But then anyone could easily modify and create their own Scrobble dictionary.

Also thanks for your donation. I have listed a "Thanks for these donations" section in the main post.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Thank you very much for your donation! I have listed it in a "Donations" section on the main post.

Don't worry about going blind... a few years ago I got the LASIK eye surgery, then I could see better than 20/20 (and no longer had to spend money on contacts and eyeglasses and optometrist visits!)... but now my eyesight is steadily getting worse again, and I feel like I am going blind, too. :)

Good question. I plan on offering a free trial version of Scrobble for Android (Scrobble won't be its name, by the way), and also a paid version. The reason why I feel I can get away with a paid version is that I will implement more features, such as Save/Load Game, High Scores list, etc. (Maybe even networked/Bluetooth/wifi multiplayer, if I am feeling very ambitious).

Also the layout of the board will be different, it will change randomly at the start of the game and even during the game (unless you turn that option off), and there will be different special tiles, such as wild tiles (that may give you a bonus or may take points away), and other types of modifiers.

There are 2 reasons behind these changes -- 1. Avoid a lawsuit: Hasbro sued Facebook because their Scrabbulous app copied the SCRABBLE board exactly. (So does Scrobble, but it's free so I doubt Hasbro will come after me, even though they legally could. Although, Scrobble may be taking away profits from Handmark's outrageously-priced $14.99, hideous-looking Windows Mobile Scrabble).

2. Increase replayability. SCRABBLE is a great game that can be played over and over with friends or against the CPU. It would have even greater replayability, in my opinion, if the board changed randomly from game-to-game or turn-to-turn. Also, if I kept up with changes, feature additions, etc. then this would make the game even more attractive.

This is why I feel I can justify charging a small fee ($1.99-$2.99 probably) for Android Scrobble.

(My current job is a network administrator / technical consultant. It's okay but my real hobby and passion is software development. It's very difficult to get a job in that field without any real programming job experience, especially in this current recession... so if I could be self-employed developing software like Scrobble for Android, then I would be a pretty happy camper!).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deuzeff:
Whooo that's really cool, many thanks for sharing this !! :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PeteSX:
Thanks Acrosser,

The DAWG tool would be great if you could compile/release it. Also the previously mentioned "force word" option within the game itself if you ever get chance. Quick note to all who don't like the available dictionaries - You can spend hours hunting down word lists, running scripts and presenting what you think is exactly the right word list for you, then on the very first game of scrobble the computer plays a duff word like "qr" and won't let you play a word like "geek" - downloaders of my dict-BritEnConcise.zip - my apologies :-( As a Brit I'm still finding the game-play more enjoyable with this dictionary than the ospd ones though.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] danielebron:
me too. I know is not easy make a great spanish dictionary

not at all thank
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kml.krk:
HI acrosser. Thanks for great game!!

I have exact same problem as the guys above but I am using POLISH dictionary. (I get same error message but sometimes I get it right away and sometimes I can play few rounds before the error comes up) PLEASE help so I could continue playing great game!!

PS. I have net framework 3.5 installed and I am using HyperDragon IV ROM

best wishes

KML
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rulles:
Portuguese language

Somebody could do realese the portuguese language?

p.s. sorry about my bad english. :o
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
This error is occurring when the CPU player is trying to "think" of a word to play. It suggests that there is a problem with the dictionary. There may be duplicate words in the source text file dictionary, or some other problem (dictionary too large?).

If you can find a new Spanish dictionary on the Internet that matches all the criteria in the 2nd post on this thread (basically a text file with all words listed, one per line, with only the 26 English letters A through Z in it) then I can make a new Spanish dictionary. This is also the case for kml.krk who is having the same problem with the Polish dictionary.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] acrosser:
Rulles, see my post above about finding a Spanish dictionary. If you can search the Internet and find a Portugese dictionary in the format specified above then I can convert it to Scrobble format.

Also don't worry about your "bad English" -- you are trying, which is what counts! And you got your point across, which is most important. If I tried to speak Portugese I would fail miserably (even though I know a little Spanish, which is similar to Portugese!).

If you want your sentence "fixed," ;) it would look like this:

"Could somebody please release a Portugese dictionary?"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pepitolopez:
new spanish dictionary

hi, i get a new spanish dictionary, i have removed all words that beginning by 'ñ' letter. I hope that all it`s ok and it works!!!

Thank you so much in advance, good work

Best regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] asteenbr:
problem installing Scrobble

Hi, I just tried to install Scrobble 1.3 on my HTC Touch Pro with Windows Mobile 6.1, after having installed Net CF 3.5. But I get errors reading: "ScrobbleGame.exe ObjectDisposedException bij Microsoft AGL. Common.MISC.HandleAr() bij System.Drawing.Font.Init() bij System.Drawnig.Font.ctor() bij ScrobbleGame.ScrobleForm.ctor() bij ScrobbleGame.Program.Main()" Any idea?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bubert:
hello...could you make a romania dic too?:) the dict. is in page #13.

Thx alot for this great game;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DarkHorse:
thanks for the game!

In english works well...but I tried the italian dictionary and it seems to be very inaccurate... :(:(

the app in italian is unusable... it accept some non-existent words and doesn't accept existent words... :eek: :confused:

May I help you to fix the dict?

How can I convert the .scro files to see and fix the dict?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Roycosoepie:
Hi,

I checked this forum for mails how to update my MDA vario. I did some things like unlock CID. It was already SIM unlocked.

I was able to download a ROM upgrade (doesn't matter which one). After going thru the screens and let my MDA vario restarted. But after restarting it has still the Microsoft Windows Mobile version 5.0.

I have no idea what I have to do more.:mad:

IPL: 1.01

SPL: 2.21
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Roycosoepie:
This can be closed. I found a tool and can now update the rom:D
[General Questions and Answers] Daci:
I am going to buy i780 but i don't know how GPS is working...

How much time is needed to find satellites without A-GPS function (without connecting to internet), and is it ever losing satellites during navigation ????

I am asking this because I had SonyEricsson W760 and GPS on it was a **** , he needed half an hour to find satellites (one or two) without A-GPS , and an about 2 minutes with A-GPS and he lost satellites every 200 meters. that is my bad experience with GPS on cheaper phone. for an example my friend has a HTC TOUCH PRO and GPS on it is working so good, phone is finding satellites in 5 seconds without A-GPS and never lost them
[General Questions and Answers] Daci:
somebody ????
[General Questions and Answers] Daci:
mods can you delete topic

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] redjge:
just past by on this thread

is this question already answered?
[General Questions and Answers] netztilt:
GPS works well. with a cold start i780 finds satellites in about 1-2 minutes tops, with a warm start it only takes 5-10 seconds. Signal strength is about 1-2 bars indoors (out of 5), and 3-4 bars outdoors.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] docnas:
I was just browsing thru the blue angel forum and I noticed tht they had a Windows 6.5 version rom out. Yes I know its a beta version but still im hoping someone here can port it to the wizard so we can give it a try. I would post a link but im using opera mini hence can't copy it still though its a sticky first thread on the windows 6 sub-forum of the blue angel forum.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mohen:
hehe it's amazing that blue anges ( such an old phone ) can run the latest rom ...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] boto:
Hhaha Blue angel make miracle, but wizard is also magic :P

i'm sure that someone will soon do that!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] email123:
I've ported it to wizard two weeks before,but camera doesn't work on 6.5 rom!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] docnas:
care to tell us what are the differances between 6.1 and 6.5 ?? anything major ??
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] S.V.I:
Im sure there is aw ay to get a working camera.. there is another camera app that works on the wizard (cool cam) that might be a halfassed replacement.

I would like to see this rom ported and a kitchen too :)

sure some stuff might not work, but whare there isa will there is a way!

what camera did work with that rom?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] SlimDan22:
Im not an expert and not very fluent in development on WinMo but

why wouldnt the camera be working for 6.5, wouldnt the app be backwords compatible

or is it a driver issue or something?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] boscorelly:
I think it's just a driver issue.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] fatso485:
cracing seem to have done it. not sure why he did not post here yet

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=474406&page=11
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] CRACING:
WM6.5 for htc wizard has released. Take a look over CR86 Touch HD thread.:p

Best Regards
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] fultoodhamaal:
From what I have read, the menu has a honeycomb structure will looks real neat and is supposedly more finger friendly. Here is a link with couple of screenshots :

http://www.exedamobile.com/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=7