Comments on: Pinyin Tone Dashboard Widget

By: barbara celis

barbara celis — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:14:24 +0000

thanks, for me it’s useful after a change from pc to mac using word for mac. just a pity it does not work integrated in word. thanks for your work :-)

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:44:27 +0000

Thank you so much!!!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:14:14 +0000

Here’s another nice tool developed by an international school in Beijing. It’s called PinyinMaker. It takes chinese text and converts it to pinyin and allows you to generate flashcards. http://pym.wab.edu

By: Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:23:24 +0000

What a great tool! Thanks so much for putting this together. I second the request for the “keep capital letters capitalized” feature though :)

By: Sue G.

Sue G. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:08:43 +0000

Doesn’t work for me on imac Leopard 10.5

By: Muninn

Muninn — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:14:34 +0000

Great! I just wish I could understand why it doesn’t work on 10.4 despite supposed compatibility being set up in XCode.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:26:56 +0000

Upgraded to Leopard and it works like a charm. Cheers!

By: Muninn

Muninn — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:25:29 +0000

Strange…I don’t know what to say…It works here on Leopard…I wish I knew what was going on…

By: R

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:20:22 +0000

I’m running 10.4.11 as well and neither the regular nor the backward compatible version work for me :(

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:03:48 +0000

No worries — am going to be upgrading to Leopard soonish anyway, with any luck, so we’ll see if that takes care of it.

By: Muninn

Muninn — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:41:23 +0000

TenThousandThings: A quick test shows that removing the command to make everything lower case works – I’ll ask Mark why he added that line and if there are no issues I’m overlooking I’ll update the widget to keep upper case.

By: Muninn

Muninn — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:37:42 +0000

Hey Brendan, I’m not sure why it isn’t working! I’m really sorry I don’t know how to fix that. It isn’t a web clip thing, just plain old Javascript…

TenThousandThings: I will look into keeping the upper case – I’ll ask Mark if I have to make any major changes to the script to make it work without his making everything lowercase.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:12:58 +0000

Weird — am running 10.4.11, but for some reason it isn’t working for me — the ‘Add Tone Marks’ button just doesn’t do anything.

A random guess — is this using the ‘Web Clip’ thing? I think that’s a Leopard-only feature for widgets, though I could be wrong.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:15:17 +0000

Thanks for your kind words. I had been planning to make a Firefox plug-in of the tone tool, but I got busy with work and forgot about it. I’m glad someone found a way to make something useful with it.

By: TenThousandThings

TenThousandThings — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:56:55 +0000

Works nicely, thanks! My only feature request would be to have it preserve capital letters at the start of syllables, for names and so on. Right now it changes everything to lower-case.