Lingo: Flash-Card Learning System

Examples Originally started to provide a flash card system for learning the Thai alphabet, the examples below use English, Thaiscript and transliterated Thai to demonstrate the flexibility of the _set file system. Images Sounds Diacritic Tone Marks Unicode Characters
	Images Images as prompts, with definitions as answers. This shows a Thai alphabet character with it's name (English), sound if encountered at the beginning or middle of a word and its tone, each on separate lines. In the _set file this would appear as below. Note the use of the HTML tag to break the lines. Images are stored as CompuServe Graphics Interchange format, with or without transparency, in a folder with the same name as the set (same as the filename without the "_set.txt" bit). Images may be given any Windows-legal name providing it ends in ".gif".


	Sounds Sounds can accompany text or images (or blank fields) as prompts or answers by adding the name of the sound file (AUFF, WAV or AU format) in HTML comment tags () at the end of the coresponding component. In the _set file this would appear as: Sound is enabled using the Sound ON/OFF button at the top of the window. Sound is enabled by default and has no effect if no sounds are included in the dataset. Sound files are stored in a folder with the same name as the set (same as the filename without the "_set.txt" bit) and can be given any Windows-legal name. This will be the same folder as any images used in the set.


	Diacritic Tone Marks Tones marks may be included as superscripts above individual vowels. These can be created in something like Microsoft Word and pasted into your _set file as: `English\|Thai PLEASED TO MEET YOU\|YIN DEE TÊE DÂI RÓO JÀK ...` ...or entered using Unicode (see below). I haven't tried this myself, but you will have to determine, in Thai for example, the Unicode values (if they exist) for the five English vowels with each tone mark. The same applies to German umlauts, French accents etc.


	Unicode Characters Foreign characters, words and phrases can be rendered using Unicode strings. Microsoft Word will produce decimal Unicode strings if you paste non-roman text into a document and save it as HTML. Alternatively, copy your required character, word or phrase from a web page or other document and paste it into the source field of the Unicoder utility. Press return (enter) and the Unicode field will contain the Unicode string that you can copy and paste into your _set file e.g.