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How to change hotclick dictionary/encyclopedia site in Opera?

Friday, 12. September 2008, 15:30:36

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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

suribe 12. September 2008, 20:22

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

nizamx 20. September 2008, 14:34

Another great tip!

Moonbarker Osbourne 7. October 2008, 10:15

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 7. October 2008, 23:53

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 10. October 2008, 02:07

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

viewy21 2. November 2008, 07:58

It actually isn't that complicated.

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

Tamil 2. November 2008, 14:19

Originally posted by viewy21:

It actually isn't that complicated.

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

metude 8. June 2009, 18:17

How can I open in new tab?

metude 9. June 2009, 06:30

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

Tamil 9. June 2009, 07:30

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

combomax 6. September 2009, 18:11

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 6. September 2009, 18:32

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 6. September 2009, 18:46

:yes:

dantesoft 14. September 2009, 14:26

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 14. September 2009, 14:32

Updated and thanks.

Anonymous 21. September 2009, 06:05

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 21. September 2009, 09:15

Change encoding and try.

rnrgal 17. October 2009, 08:30

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 17. October 2009, 11:21

It is not possible.

rnrgal 23. October 2009, 05:11

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

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