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16 days later

Has anyone been able to make this work for skyrim? I've enabled windowedmode but when I click ctrl D it marks all text in the entire window (not just where the cursor is placed) and I get no popup window. It DOES work when I alt tab the game, move my windows mouse cursor over, and click Ctrl D but sometimes text and windows will disappear when I alt tab, so it's not ideal.

Edit: Looking a bit more into this and if I'd have to guess I'd say it's because skyrim doesn't allow hardware cursor, so it's not drawing the actual windows cursor, which I'm assuming is what lookuper uses.

    Bananskrue
    Thanks for letting me know. I’m going to install Skyrim and try. I’ll get back to you with more info soon.

      Cheers, thanks! Let me know. I'm pretty sure it's due to the lack of hardware cursor though. It does work if by chance my windows cursor is on top of the word when I click CTRL-D, but since I can't see my windows cursor, I have no way of knowing where it is. I summarize the reason it selects "everything" is because my windows cursor is on a location where there is no word, and this is to my understanding the default behavior of lookupper. If you do manage to find a workaround I would be very happy to hear it.

      Edit: Forgot to mention, Skyrim also disables the keyboard in relation to windows while you're playing (so things like the windows key or other custom keys for custom keyboards don't work). I had to install a mod to fix this, called media keys fix. Skyrim really makes it hard -_-

        Bananskrue

        So, I installed Skyrim and tried Lookupper in it. I encountered the same problems. I’ll try to install a borderless window mod in addition to keyboard mod to see if it helps. I’ll let you know.

          Bananskrue After trying multiple Skyrim mods, I still can’t get Lookupper to work properly with Skyrim. I hope you find a solution and share it; it would be a great help.

            No, I honestly don't think it's possible due to Skyrim not supporting a hardware mouse cursor. The way I understand this is that skyrim draws its own mouse cursor and then hides the windows mouse cursor, which is the cursor lookupper uses. A potential workaround would be if the windows mouse cursor would also be displayed. This is a pretty common bug that happens sometimes, as seen here:
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frXR4LSZn08
            When this happens the second mouse cursor visible is the ACTUAL windows mouse cursor, and if you use that mouse cursor to indicate what lookupper should translate, it works. Unfortunately skyrim hides the windows mousecursor by default and I don't think there's any way to show it, except for encountering this bug. I'm sure there's a way to make it happen, but people normally go to great lengths to AVOID this second mouse cursor, since it's generally quite annoying.

            I've found a workaround however, though it's not ideal, and perhaps it only works because I have two monitors:

            1. Make sure the mouse cursor (the windows one, not the skyrim one) is on the monitor you're running Skyrim (this can be achieved by just moving the mouse towards that window. NB: This mouse cursor is made INVISIBLE by skyrim while it's running, so you don't know where it actually is, but you'll realize it's on the wrong monitor if you click CTRL-D and it highlights whatever's on the other monitor instead of what's in the skyrim window).
            2. Click CTRL-D, this will highlight all texts in the skyrim window
            3. Alt tab to display mouse cursor. Sometimes you have to move your mouse to the other monitor and do a left click or right click to make the mouse cursor display.
            4. Now, because lookupper overlay is on skyrim, mouse cursor will display when you bring it back, now you can use lookupper on the currently visible words.

            It's not great, but once you get the hang of it it's surprisingly fast.

              Bananskrue
              Thank you for all your work in finding this workaround. It’s unfortunate that such a solution is necessary, but I really appreciate the effort you’ve put into figuring it out. It’s good to know there’s a solution, even if it’s not perfect. Thanks again for sharing this—your persistence is impressive.

                11 days later

                Hey! I'm hoping you'll be able to implement more Asian language compatibility eventually. I'm learning Chinese, so it would be super useful to use Lookupper for that in my games.

                Suggestions related to that:
                I don't know if you are okay with looking at other apps for inspiration, but for Chinese I use Inkah (on browser) which is able to detect individual characters, different meanings/pronunciations, and whole words. It also has basic audio, but it can not translate or select whole sentences.

                If you would like a good resource for Chinese in general, or to test Lookupper, the Chinese Grammar Wiki by AllSetLearning is very helpful. They also include some idioms, etc.

                For Japanese I believe there is a Youtube extension called Migaku which helps to translate captions in videos for learning and to add them to a deck. I haven't used it though.

                Good luck and looking forward to future updates!

                  Sharps
                  Thanks a lot for the suggestions. I’ll definitely check out references you provided to see if there are features or ideas I can incorporate into Lookupper. Asian language support (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) is a top priority for me right now. It’s a challenging task, but I’m confident I’ll figure it out soon and get Lookupper working well with those languages. Thanks again for your input.

                    22 days later

                    Could you please add a delete checkbox in the page of saved word so that users can delete the useless word and they don't have to delete the word in the anki every time they export words?

                      leuas You can delete any saved word by selecting it and pressing Delete key, or by right-clicking and choosing “Delete.” You can also select multiple words and delete them all at once.

                        Oh, I just realised I could right-click. How do I select the word?

                          Got it! And why does lookupper become so much large?

                            leuas Lookupper uses more disk space with each installed dictionary. It seems you might have installed the Oxford English Dictionary, which is 2GB on its own.

                              Oh, understood. Thank you

                              5 days later

                              Hey! Thanks for your creation, but I encountered a little issue while using it. After I closed the lookupper dictionary, even though I added offline dictionaries as per the guide, they didn't show up when I looked up words, as shown in the image. I'm quite confused. I really want both AI translation and offline dictionaries to work simultaneously.

                                Jing Thanks for the report. This is a known bug that three users, including you, have encountered. Unfortunately, I can’t reproduce it on my machines, which makes it difficult to fix. I’ve added a feature to capture error messages that occur during the dictionary installation stage, specifically while the dictionary is being indexed. Once I catch the error message, I believe I’ll be able to fix the issue that’s causing offline dictionaries not to work for some users.

                                  So I found that when I use lookupper to check word and make card, the screenshot would be too small if lookupper just have identified one word there. Could you add a feature in which I could take whatever size's screenshot and it would display in the anki like the common auto screenshot capture when I use lookupper to look up word? Like add a new lookup shortcut.
                                  So the process would like, use new shortcut to take the screenshot, then use the one we have now to look up the word. Or maybe you have a better solution for this?