[Lexicog] Fwd: shoebox/toolbox

Monica Macaulay mmacaula at WISC.EDU
Tue Aug 31 14:32:26 UTC 2004


I forwarded the messages about Shoebox/Toolbox to my students, since we
use both, and here's the response one of them sent:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Nate C-K <nculwell at wisc.edu>
> Date: August 31, 2004 1:37:38 AM CDT
> To: Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: shoebox/toolbox
>
> I wrote a hack to allow both to be used at the same time. It took me a
> while to figure it out, but the authors have the source and could have
> fixed it in under 5 minutes if they had wanted to. Here's the
> solution:
>
> http://personalpages.tds.net/~ncmadcity/FixToolbox.html
>
> Please post the link to the mailing list.
>
> -Nate
>
>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>     *Date: *August 30, 2004 9:46:50 AM CDT
>>     *To: *lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>>     *Subject: [Lexicog] Digest Number 189
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>>     There are 3 messages in this issue.
>>
>>     Topics in this digest:
>>
>>     1. running Shoebox AND Toolbox
>>     From: Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>
>>     2. Re: running Shoebox AND Toolbox
>>     From: Neal_Brinneman at sil.org
>>     3. Re: running Shoebox AND Toolbox
>>     From: fieldworks_support at sil.org
>>
>>
>>
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>>     Message: 1
>>     Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:23:24 -0400
>>     From: Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>
>>     Subject: running Shoebox AND Toolbox
>>
>>     This weekend, I ported a Shoebox lexicon using an 8-bit encoding
>>     over to
>>     Unicode. To verify that the conversion had worked correctly, I
>>     tried to
>>     simultaneously run the old dictionary file in Shoebox and the new
>>     one in
>>     Toolbox, so I could compare the displays. I can't.
>>
>>     If Shoebox is running, Toolbox won't start up, and vice versa.
>> It's
>>     very odd, as TB and SB are installed in different directories, the
>>     two
>>     lexicons are in different directories, with different .prj and
>> .typ
>>     files, etc.
>>
>>     Does anyone know of a work-around (short of running the two
>>     programs on
>>     two different computers)?
>>     --     Mike Maxwell
>>     Linguistic Data Consortium
>>     maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>     Message: 2
>>     Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 07:56:50 -0400
>>     From: Neal_Brinneman at sil.org
>>     Subject: Re: running Shoebox AND Toolbox
>>
>>
>>     Dear Mike,
>>     Toolbox 1.2 will now run a different project upon startup than
>>     ShW5 does,
>>     but it is still not completely independent. Before this, Toolbox 1
>>     would
>>     open the same project that ShW had had open when it was running.
>>     They used
>>     to use the same *.ini file which was the reason. You will have to
>>     use 2
>>     computers to see them both at the same time. Of course, you can
>>     open the
>>     same databases in Toolbox that were open in Shoebox if you so
>>     desire, and
>>     have them both open in the same program for comparison.
>>     Neal
>>
>>
>>
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>>     Message: 3
>>     Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:13:22 -0400
>>     From: fieldworks_support at sil.org
>>     Subject: Re: running Shoebox AND Toolbox
>>
>>
>>     With some earlier versions of Toolbox, if you opened the same
>>     project in
>>     Shoebox, the language encodings would lose their Unicode attribute
>>     even in
>>     Toolbox. But now this doesn't happen. I have Toolbox 1.2.
>>
>>
>>     Steve White, Jaars language software support
>>     704-843-6337, 1-800-215-7813
>>
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