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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -62,4 +62,4 @@ end When I replaced the original screensaver file with this new one, it worked. You can now have a "Word of the Day" screensaver for any word list you'd like. (See below for my pre-made list using Norman Schur's 1000 Most Important Words. Just copy and paste it into `/System/Library/Graphics/Quartz\ Composer\ Plug-Ins/WOTD.plugin/Contents/Resources/NOAD_wotd_list.txt` using your favorite text editor. You will need to enter your Administrator password to save the file.) -
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This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode charactersOriginal file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ As you might expect, the ID refers to an entry in Apple's default dictionary, th I've played around with Apple's built-in dictionary files before—for my post, ["You're probably using the wrong dictionary"](http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary). You can find them at `/Library/Dictionaries`. Unfortunately, when you dig around in the dictionary packages, you find promising files—like `/Library/Dictionaries/New\ Oxford\ American\ Dictionary.dictionary/Contents/EntryID.data`—but these turn out to be in a custom binary format. How to parse them? A fellow named Joseph Gentle, in a [series](http://josephg.com/blog/reverse-engineering-apple-dictionaries/) of blog posts, shows how to get at the underlying data. In his ["Apple dictionaries, part 2"](https://josephg.com/blog/apple-dictionaries-part-2/) post, he points to code that unpacks the binary file into XML. Using the `dedict.c` and `strip.c` files found [here](https://gist.github.com/josephg/5e134adf70760ee7e49d), and following Gentle's example, I used the following bash commands to get at the NOAD's XML (these commands are run from the directory where you downloaded the `dedict.c` and `strip.c` files): ```bash clang dedict.c -Wall -lz -o dedict @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ When I `head`-ed the first few lines of the `dict.xml` file, I saw something pro <d:entry xmlns:d="http://www.apple.com/DTDs/DictionaryService-1.0.rng" id="m_en_us1219333" d:title="abode" class="entry"> ``` Notice that `id` param... it's an identifier that looks exactly like the one in the screensaver word list! I wrote the following Ruby script to parse the XML, and then, using my own word list, create a _new_ screensaver file that maps my own words to their IDs in the dictionary: ```rb raw = File.open("./dict.xml").read @@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ my_words.each do |word| end ``` When I replaced the original screensaver file with this new one, it worked. I now have a "Word of the Day" screensaver that gives definitions for the words _I_ chose. -
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