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Grand Robert and Robert & Collins: Tip to fix the double-click behaviour in the search field

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Nearly three years ago, I wrote (in French) about the absurd design of the user interface for the Grand Robert and Robert & Collins CD-ROM-based dictionary applications, which uses the double-click as a shortcut from jumping from entry to entry in the dictionary, whereas the universal convention in OS X is that a double-click on […]

Interface Grand Robert et Robert & Collins: Keyboard Maestro à la rescousse

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

J’ai déjà eu l’occasion de parler des aspects extrêmement frustrants de l’interface utilisateur des logiciels du Grand Robert et du Grand Robert & Collins pour Mac OS X. Aujourd’hui, j’ai des solutions à proposer. Grâce à Keyboard Maestro, il est en effet possible de contourner certains des aspects les plus exaspérants de l’interface de ces […]

Grand Robert et Grand Robert & Collins : liens hypertexte et sélection de mots

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

En tant que traducteur professionnel, j’utilise évidemment beaucoup les dictionnaires. Les dictionnaires Le Robert sont pour moi des outils indispensables. Pendant longtemps, je me suis contenté des versions imprimées, en particulier parce que les versions électroniques soit n’étaient pas disponibles pour le Mac (dans le cas du Grand Robert) soit proposaient une interface d’une bien […]

Grand Robert: Disable splash screen

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Another annoyance in the Grand Robert application that I have been discussing on this blog lately is that, each time you launch it, the application displays a modal splash screen on top of the application’s main window, which has to be manually dismissed with a mouse click before you can start using the application. (The […]

Stand-alone TERMIUM browser and Keyboard Maestro

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

A few years ago, I wrote about using the Fluid utility to build a stand-alone browser (based on Safari) for the TERMIUM on-line terminology database. Since 2010, TERMIUM is actually a free service, which means that anyone can now use it without having to pay a subscription fee. Having a stand-alone browser for TERMIUM is […]