Proofing Tool GUI

[Marco A.G.Pinto]

Hello my dear ones, A couple of days ago I was on IRC in #dev.openoffice.org chatting with JZA. I came up with the idea of creating a GUI to edit the thesaurus of AOO. JZA told me the files were in TXT format and gave me a URL with several information but I gave a quick look and didn't find anything about the data dictionary of the thesaurus. The tool will be called "Proofing Tool GUI" and will be coded in PureBasic. Is this a good name? PureBasic allows to compile in Windows/Linux/Mac/Amiga. The reason why I want to code it is because months ago I contacted my friends at Minho University in Portugal who are in charge of PT-pt and I wanted to send them words to be used as synonymous but they didn't know how to add them. This made me think that there isn't a tool for doing that, so my idea is good because it can be used by the whole community of developers. I unziped the Portuguese .OXT and grabbed the files: - th_pt_PT.idx - th_pt_PT.dat I opened them with Microsoft _expression_ Web 4 to keep the UTF-8 format but didn't understand completely how they work. For example, in the .idx one I had: UTF-8 12940 1|6 a cerca de|16097 a começar de|19986 a favor|32934 a partir de|67469 a respeito de|77248    ... etc... in the .dat one I had: UTF-8 1|3 -|anuviado -|aperitivo -|sigla ababelado|1 -|atrapalhado|baralhado|atarantado|desnorteado ababelar|1 -|baralhar|atrapalhar abaçanado|1    ... etc... It seems there are at least three levels of synonymous in the .dat one but I don't know how to interpret them if I create a GUI. Also, in the .idx one there are numbers too which I don't understand the meaning. Is there a URL which explains every detail of those files? Thanks! Kind regards from,          >Marco A.G.Pinto            ----------------------- --