Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: 895 hits is great
[quote]Meta Arkadia wrote:
[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
"No, that is a silly request: it can also be done, it should be done, using some other little tool ×, because we don't want to bloat CT."[/quote]
Nope, because this isn't a silly request, which is why I said "...but in the meantime..." TMLookup shines in the case of large tables, but you need extra filtering if you end up with a result of 895 hits like in your screenshot. That's a useless, time-consuming result without additional filtering. And the "problem" has been solved already.
[quote]...DB Browser for SQLite (which, by the way, is slow as molasses[/quote]
It is. I never used it for huge tables, but I tried today, and it's way too slow.
Cheers,
Hans (OS X forever) [/quote]
Strange. I actually find those 895 hits in my screenshot very useful. It's far from "useless and time-consuming". In fact, that is exactly how I use TMLookup: if I can't think of a translation for a word when translating, I selected and press my TMLookup shortcut. The program immediately springs into action and shows me if the relevant term is present in my extremely large database consisting of TMXs. 895 hits is great, and just what I want in such a case.
However, sometimes, it would be useful to be able to filter on individual TMXs, and thus narrow down the results.
Michael
[Edited at 2016-01-05 11:06 GMT]
Topic: TMLookup
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: 895 hits is great
[quote]Meta Arkadia wrote:
[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:
"No, that is a silly request: it can also be done, it should be done, using some other little tool ×, because we don't want to bloat CT."[/quote]
Nope, because this isn't a silly request, which is why I said "...but in the meantime..." TMLookup shines in the case of large tables, but you need extra filtering if you end up with a result of 895 hits like in your screenshot. That's a useless, time-consuming result without additional filtering. And the "problem" has been solved already.
[quote]...DB Browser for SQLite (which, by the way, is slow as molasses[/quote]
It is. I never used it for huge tables, but I tried today, and it's way too slow.
Cheers,
Hans (OS X forever) [/quote]
Strange. I actually find those 895 hits in my screenshot very useful. It's far from "useless and time-consuming". In fact, that is exactly how I use TMLookup: if I can't think of a translation for a word when translating, I selected and press my TMLookup shortcut. The program immediately springs into action and shows me if the relevant term is present in my extremely large database consisting of TMXs. 895 hits is great, and just what I want in such a case.
However, sometimes, it would be useful to be able to filter on individual TMXs, and thus narrow down the results.
Michael
[Edited at 2016-01-05 11:06 GMT]