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How to change hotclick dictionary/encyclopedia site in Opera?

Friday, September 12, 2008 3:30:36 PM

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You can change default hotclick dictionary site & encyclopedia site with preferred site.

Opera Hotclick Menu
Hotclick menu

If you don't know how to edit menu setup, see this.

To change dictionary site, under [Hotclick Popup Menu] replace 

Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Hotclick search, 50
with 
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Go to page, "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%t"


To change encyclopedia site, under [Hotclick Popup Menu] replace 

Item, MI_IDM_SELENCYCLOPED = Hotclick search, 51
with 
Item, MI_IDM_SELENCYCLOPED = Go to page, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%t"


Go to your preferred dictionary/encyclopedia site > Right click on search box > Create Search... > Details >> > Copy address > Cancel. Replace search URL in above code with copied address and change %s to %t.

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Comments

Sergio Uribesuribe Friday, September 12, 2008 8:22:34 PM

great tip, specially for people like us who our first lang is not english, thanks Tamil!

nizamx Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:34:26 PM

Another great tip!

Moonbarker Osbourne Tuesday, October 7, 2008 10:15:52 AM

Something's wrong. I did the needed line replacement in standard_menu.ini, but each time I try to highlight a word, right click and select Dictionary, I get the followin'

"Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the exact phrase C:Documents and SettingsCloudchaser.PC224778755968Local SettingsApplication DataOperaOperaprofilecache4opr1L4QY"

Here's what that part of standard_menu.ini looks like now. What needs to be changed?

[Hotclick Popup Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_DOCCOPY= Copy
Item, M_COPY_TO_NOTE= Copy to note
Platform Win2000-Unix-Mac-QNX, Feature Voice, Item, M_HOTCLICK_MENU_ITEM_SPEAK = Speak selection
--------------------1
Item, MI_IDM_SELSEARCH= Hotclick search, 200
Submenu, MI_IDM_SEARCH_DUMMY_PARENT, Internal Search With
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Go to page, "http://www.onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a"
Item, MI_IDM_SELENCYCLOPED= Hotclick search, 51

Tamil Tuesday, October 7, 2008 11:53:22 PM

Originally posted by Moonbarker Osbourne:

Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Go to page, "http://www.onelook.com/?w=%s&ls=a"

Originally posted by Tamil:

Replace search URL in above code with copied address and change %s to %t.

Use the following. 
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Go to page, "http://www.onelook.com/?w=%t&ls=a"

Moonbarker Osbourne Friday, October 10, 2008 2:07:14 AM

It's working fine now, much thanx for your help!

Viewyviewy21 Sunday, November 2, 2008 7:58:28 AM

It actually isn't that complicated.

See http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2780391

Tamil Sunday, November 2, 2008 2:19:18 PM

Originally posted by viewy21:

It actually isn't that complicated.

Opera will overwrite C:\Program Files\Opera\search.ini when you update.

metude Monday, June 8, 2009 6:17:58 PM

How can I open in new tab?

metude Tuesday, June 9, 2009 6:30:12 AM

Is there menu action? like "Go to page & New page"

Tamil Tuesday, June 9, 2009 7:30:11 AM

You can use it for dictionary/encyclopedia search but not for translate.

combomax Sunday, September 6, 2009 6:11:58 PM

Is there a way to put search phrase inside " marks? So search for the exact matches in Google? Like this:

AutoHotkey is a free
"AutoHotkey is a free"

Item, "Google Search" = go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%T&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"

Tamil Sunday, September 6, 2009 6:32:22 PM

Try 
Item, "Google Search" = go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%T%22&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8"

combomax Sunday, September 6, 2009 6:46:51 PM

yes

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Monday, September 14, 2009 2:26:51 PM

I now use 
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY=Go to page, "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%t"
because the search page failed for multiple words (e.g. a lookup on "et cetera").

Tamil Monday, September 14, 2009 2:32:01 PM

Updated and thanks.

Unregistered user Monday, September 21, 2009 6:05:03 AM

Anonymous writes: Thanks for your thread, it seems to be really one of the great tools of Opera. But I still have some issues with one point. I was installing this tool (hotclick dictionary) for the czech dictionary slovnik.cz. And the point is that everything works perfectly fine as long as the words you want to look up are in ASCII-only code. But as soon as there is one letter of the diacrytic signs in it, it either looks only for the first few letters until the unreadable one (with the javascript engine on slovnik.cz) or crashes totally caused by an internal error (with the php engine of slovnik.seznam.cz). so if I try to translate a word like "kuře" it takes only the first two letters and looks up "ku", and if it's f.e. "řízeń" it looks up "a" because it can't read the first letter. So my question is if anybody of you knows how to automatically convert the hotclick request either to ASCII (just like switching every ě to e, š to s, č to c, ř to r, ž to z and so forth...) or to keep it in the utf-8? Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Go to page, "http://slovnik.cz/bin/mld.fpl?vcb=%t&trn=p%C5%99elo%C5%BEit&dictdir=gecz.cz&lines=30&js=1&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" Thanks!

Tamil Monday, September 21, 2009 9:15:10 AM

Change encoding and try.

rnrgal Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:30:44 AM

Hello Tamil

This is very helpful. I have a related question, though. The sites I am using for my dictionary and encyclopedia, The Free Dictionary and Wikipedia, also show up on my hotclick "search with" list, but I don't know how to remove them from there. If I can do this, does that also remove them from my search engines list in the address bar, because I do want to have them listed there.

Thanks. banana

Tamil Saturday, October 17, 2009 11:21:35 AM

It is not possible.

rnrgal Friday, October 23, 2009 5:11:39 AM

OK. I think I was able to do it in the 9.x versions so must be a change with 10. thanks

Unregistered user Tuesday, February 9, 2010 9:37:17 AM

Anonymous writes: Where can i get the profile of the astrologer A.M Rajagopalan

Tamil Tuesday, February 9, 2010 12:29:40 PM

Sorry, I don't know.

Øzikzakatak Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:29:16 PM

tamil hi...


have some troubles having google dictionary as my default dictionary.


so far the search query works when custom search but wont work as hotclikc pop up menu.

http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en%7Cen&q=%s&hl=en


any ideas?

Tamil Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:37:56 PM

You have to change %s to %t

Øzikzakatak Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:46:28 PM

doh thanx tamil to busy reconstructing my profile to remember that one...

Unregistered user Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:30:37 PM

Auskalo writes: what about using a dictionary application, as the apple dic on safari? Is this possible?

Tamil Thursday, February 11, 2010 10:43:49 PM

See Lookup and spell check using WordWeb dictionary/thesaurus

peteschwarzerpeter Friday, February 12, 2010 7:01:34 AM

Tamil, first, thanks for sharing so much of your knowledge.

Here's my problem via my 'standard_menu.ini' file:

Item, OSX Dictionary = Copy & Execute program, "/Applications/Dictionary.app"
Item, dict.cc = Go to page, "http://www.dict.cc/%t"
Item, LEO = Go to page, "http://dict.leo.org/%t"
Item, Canoo = Go to page, "http://canoo.net/%t"
Item, DWWS = Go to page, "http://www.dwds.de/%t"

Item 1 opens OSX's Dictionary application. It doesn't enter the word into the search field, but it does open the app. Good enough.

Item 2 works like a charm.
Items 3,4, and 5 don't work.

Am I missing something?

Many thanks.

Tamil Friday, February 12, 2010 7:55:49 AM

Originally posted by schwarzerpeter:

Item 1 opens OSX's Dictionary application. It doesn't enter the word into the search field, but it does open the app.

Check whether it supports command line parameter to search clipboard.

Originally posted by schwarzerpeter:

Items 3,4, and 5 don't work.

It seems URL is wrong. See last line in post.

peteschwarzerpeter Friday, February 12, 2010 6:02:31 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Check whether it supports command line parameter to search clipboard.



i don't know how to do this--i'm learning on the fly--but i'm going to try to figure it out. thanks for the tip.

Originally posted by Tamil:

It seems URL is wrong. See last line in post.



i think you mean your original post, re. %s v. %t, right? if so, then i think i already have it right. it worked for 'dict.cc', but not the others. am i misunderstanding what you mean?

thanks again.

Tamil Friday, February 12, 2010 6:10:36 PM

Originally posted by schwarzerpeter:

i think you mean your original post, re. %s v. %t, right?

yes and read the line before it.

peteschwarzerpeter Friday, February 12, 2010 7:31:53 PM

awesome, Tamil. thanks a bunch. i'll read closer next time. smile

i just thought of another question. can this be set to open the new page in another tab? is this another command line thing?

oops, you already addressed this. thanks. smile

peteschwarzerpeter Friday, February 12, 2010 8:01:36 PM

tamil,
i followed del123's method for opening the search in another tab. it worked great! thanks again for this blog. i already feel like i'm learning a lot. happy

Tamil Friday, February 12, 2010 10:11:25 PM

smile

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:34:45 PM

Anonymous writes: how do I change my default dictionary in opera from Webster to dictionary.com?

Tamil Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:37:55 AM

See post.

ConstantineUAConstantine Monday, March 29, 2010 5:29:10 PM

Helloб Tamil.

Item, "Google Exact Search" = Go to page,
"http://www.google.com/search?q=%T&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=koi-8&oe=koi-8"

Works great!

How to make quoted search in background?

Item, "Google Exact Search in background"= Copy & New page & Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%22%c%22&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=koi-8&oe=koi-8" & Minimize

puts "2" at the beginning and at the end of the string...

Tamil Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:39:48 PM

Item, "Google Exact Search in Background" = Copy & New page & Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%C&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=koi-8&oe=koi-8" & Minimize Page

ConstantineUAConstantine Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:01:55 PM

But it searches not quoted string. I need something like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=uk&client=opera&hs=9rl&rls=en-GB&q=%22mom+pop%22&lr=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Tamil Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:29:13 PM

Originally posted by UAConstantine:

But it searches not quoted string.

Tested again and it works.

Øzikzakatak Saturday, April 24, 2010 4:04:18 PM

something is changed in google dictionary that is not working...


it brings the google dictionary page but says dosent find the term...any term.

any ideas tamil?...

Tamil Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:37:53 PM

Works fine for me. confused

Unregistered user Monday, May 3, 2010 9:19:16 AM

Diane Vigil writes: Perfect. One note: if you've copied your toolbar so that you can edit it (Preferences > Advanced > Toolbars > Menu Setup), make sure to select the new copy before you save. :)

Øzikzakatak Monday, May 3, 2010 2:44:38 PM

for example i select "works" and then dictionary...and

"No dictionary definitions were found for: Works in Unknown"

but if i hit search dictionary butto in the google dictionary page, then it woks...

very strange.

this is the query im using...


http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=enCen&q=Works%20&hl=en


what can be wrong?...thanx tamil.


Tamil Monday, May 3, 2010 3:06:32 PM

Originally posted by zikzakatak:

what can be wrong?

There is a space character (%20) next to Works in URL. Remove it.

Øzikzakatak Monday, May 3, 2010 3:59:24 PM

banana

no, that was a mistake of mine, if i select only the word then there is no space...but same result "unknown"


http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=enCen&q=what&hl=en

Tamil Monday, May 3, 2010 4:08:38 PM

I don't know. sherlock

Øzikzakatak Monday, May 3, 2010 4:23:22 PM

yikes

Unregistered user Friday, June 11, 2010 4:25:25 AM

Anonymous writes: I got the some problem, and I found opera removed some charaters while hotclick dictionary search: My pre-set string: http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en%7Cen&q=%t&hl=en Opera hotclick result (search dictionary "works"): http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=enCen&q=Works&hl=en The two characters "%7" is ignored by opera. Don't know why...

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