Kanji of the Day

Because a collection of Curl objects underlies the Kanji by Grade pages at http://www.aule-browser.com/kanji/kanjidic2-grades.html the pages now have a Kanji of the Day feature with only a minimal change (a variable's value replaces a character literal and a procedure is called with two integers to delimit a safe and reasonable range.)

The Kanji character for the session is placed as the default in the search text field. A student clicks the 'Find' button to jump to the definition for that Japanese kanji character.

Within the applet, the kanji character is found by using a factory method on the class Random and a seed from a DateTime instance. The instance of a Random type is likely LinearRandom as Random is itself an abstract  class.

The same class declaration 'scurl' file is included by all of these kanji-by-grade applets.

Note: I also generalized the search function today by using one more instance of GuiMark.

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Find a haiku: GuiMark and TextSearchPattern

It was time to put a search panel into the views of Bashō haiku, so that was done today using the Curl GuiMark facility and the TextSearchPattern class.

What you see below is ぬ夜の雪 entered into the TextField next to the FIND button and the ScrollBox has scrolled down to place that poem at the top of our view.

This will now be the norm for these Curl applets on the web pages at aule-browser.com

Note added June 19: this is now generalized as a search using rotating GuiMark's.

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