chulai wrote:Anyone? I like portable version very much but I'm missing sound dirs feature. Is there any good reason for this to not be available in portable GoldenDict?
I think the main reason was that it required some additional code that wasn't ready. If you just re-enable the sound dirs feature, it would allow users to provide directories outside of the portable directory, hence making GD nonportable in general sense. And it wasn't possible to specify some predefined and fixed directory (like 'content') since sound dirs by definition are not traversing subdirectories.
I think it is doable to add a little bit of code that looks into, say 'soundDirs' directory, finds all top-level directories there and creates sounddir-dictionaries for all of them.
But, there is better way to use your sound files. Just zip them up into *.zips archive, and put the resulting file into "content" directory. GD now unedrstands such zipped sound files. And it is much more efficient to store all sounds inside a zip file, not just inside a directory. This is especially true for huge sound libraries.