\nWe return briefly to the\nongoing Chinese\/English dictionary series<\/a>\nand write some code to display all the definitions we had worked so\nhard to collect.\n(I figure you’re anxious to see something on the screen, so I\nam going to handle the Traditional Chinese\/Simplified Chinese\nissue later. For now, the “Simplified” column will be blank.)\n<\/p>\n
\nTake\n\nthe dictionary program we’ve been developing so far<\/a> and\npaste it into our\n\nnew scratch program<\/a>.\n(Delete the \nAfter creating the listview control, we set it into full row\nselect mode and create our columns.\nBefore inserting the words into the dictionary, we use\n \nCompile and run this program. Notice that it takes a ridiculously\nlong time to start up. That’s because our loop is inserting 20,000\ndictionary entries into the listview, and that can’t be fast.\n<\/p>\n \nNext time, we’ll work on speeding that up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We return briefly to the ongoing Chinese\/English dictionary series and write some code to display all the definitions we had worked so hard to collect. (I figure you’re anxious to see something on the screen, so I am going to handle the Traditional Chinese\/Simplified Chinese issue later. For now, the “Simplified” column will be blank.) 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You’ll find out why if you can’t figured it out already.\n<\/p>\n