You will find here a quick introduction in English to Software Furch-Diaoulek version 2.01. It is strongly recommended to spend some time to study this documentation. Software Furch-Diaoulek is becoming more and more complicated and simple intuition is not enough anymore.

This guide starts from the configuration given to you by the Windows installer as well as by the "Snap" package for Linux. It will show you how to make a copy of your former lessons and how to update them. You can download a .pdf version of the Quick Start guide here :
Quick-Start-FurchDiaou-en2-1.pdf (2.1 Mo)

You will find in the Quick-Start guide a few screen-shots showing some visual aspects of the software. The use of the buttons is explained. You will also learn how to create your own lessons for the vocabulary manage Diaoulek, simple lessons as well as more elaborate ones. With Furch you will click on words of a displayed text in Breton or English and obtain the translation of these words into French.
At last, a few advices on how to use the software are given.

You can also download some other documentation in .pdf here :
Userguide-Diaou-en1-4.pdf (3.8Mo)

This software has been tested and should work on your computer but packaging is prone to errors. Some DLL and files may be missing.

Report any difficulty. Of course your comments, corrections and suggestions for improvements will be welcome. To join me look here

Software Diaoulek is released under a GPL license.

It is recommended to update your lessons by the order " !update " every 3 or 4 months or each time something new is announced on the RSS feed.

Link yourself to the RSS feed to be told when there is something new !

Here is the complete procedure for WINDOWS 7.
(Try it and let me know for other more recent Windows versions)
Attention the .dll libraries will not work on Win98SE, Win 2000 or Win XP !
Remark : This new version 2.01 is for 32 or 64 bits machines. It was compiled on Win7 with the MSYS2 software and is using the graphical library GTK3.

Installation of Furch-Diaoulek 2.01

Before downloading the Windows installer, it is strongly recommended to download and read at least the first pages of the Quick Start guide :
Quick-Start-FurchDiaou-en2.1.pdf (2.1 Mo)

This tutorial will spare you a lot of time during the learning phase of this new version of the software. If you were using a former version, it will show you how to copy back your old lessons and their results of study. It will also show you how to update almost automatically your lessons and how to study languages other than Breton.

For the installation of software Furch-Diaoulek, you have 4 steps.

1) Download the Windows installer :
FDiaoulek-2-01-00.setup.exe (14 Mo)
(Verify the md5 sum= 4d965d35c65318be1e5e8d1006c6c7cb Diaoulek-2-01-00.setup.exe)
Have a double-click on this file and let you guide by the installer. Be careful, for Win7, you should install the software into User\your_login_name which is a folder where you have all the read/write permissions (your login name should not contain white spaces or accentuated letters). You will obtain in a directory FDiaou-2-01 a version "light" of the software, but still a fully functional one. You can even create this directory on a USB key.
Uninstalling FDiaoulek is very simple, you only have to suppress the directory FDiaou-2-01 and all what is inside.

2) In order to learn how to use the new version of the software, you should follow the indications given into the Quick-Start guide.

3) If you never used a previous version or if you want to forget your old records, go directly to step 4.

3-1) If you installed and made use of a previous version.
Obviously, you want to recover your former records and your lessons (particularly those which you have created yourself).
Before downloading any lesson, start a Diaoulek session by a double click on the file diaou.exe or on the picture which is on the screen. Now, in the command line at the top of the left window, you simply need to type :
!import full_path_towards_older\furch.conf
(Replace "full_path_towards_older" by the appropriate value of your old diaou.conf file. For example : C:\users\your_login_name\FDiaou-1-7\diaou.conf )
This order will import the lessons, the associated sound files and the data base of your previous Diaoulek version. On a USB key this step can last as much as 20 mn, you can look at the directory FOUND filling up ! Then the Diaoulek session will stop.
You will start a new Diaoulek session. On a USB key the starting time can reach half an hour, during that long time you can look at the directory FOUND getting empty. When the session has started, you will write in the command line : !ccdb
This will verify and if necessary correct and adapt your data-base.
You can now continue with the 2.01.00 version.

4) Loading and updating of the lessons. This is only for the Breton-French or English-French lessons.
You will write in the command line the order !update. The software will connect to Internet and download lessons or audio files, then the Diaoulek session will stop.
You will launch again a new Diaoulek session. On a USB key,the loading time can reach up to half an hour. During that time you can look at the directory FOUND getting empty. When the session has started, you have to write in the command line the order : !ccdb
This will verify and if necessary correct and adapt your data-base.
You have now the new version of the software with an updated data-base.

All the steps given above are detailed into the Quick-Start guide.

Remark : This version 2.01.00 is the first public version making use of the GTK3 graphic library. An "experimental snap package" is available for this version. This should ease the installation of the Furch-Diaoulek software on the most popular Linux distributions.

Installation of the Furch-Diaoulek software from the "snap" package.
"Snap" packages are a new package system created by Ubuntu. Many Linux distributions are able to install "Snap" packages. For the Furch-Diaoulek software a documentation
Snap-Install-FDiaou2.01-en.pdf will detail how to proceed.
The "snap" package can be downloaded here :
furch-diaou_2.01.00_amd64.snap

Compilation of software Furch-Diaoulek from the sources
Though Furch-Diaoulek was developed on Linux, installing a software on a Linux system is always a very tedious job when there is no packaged binaries.
In that case, you have to find the dependencies by trial and error. Fairly often, you will install much more packages than necessary.
In order to help you in your search, you have to know that the FDiaoulek software depends only on gcc, GTK3, libsndfile and on library libcurl for the connection to Internet. Some of these libraries are already on your system but it will be necessary to add the ".dev" packages to perform the compilation.

For the software installation :

You will download the archive :
FDiaou_2_01_00_src.tgz

You will first unzip the archive by the command :
tar -xvf Archive_name.tar
This will create a directory D2-01-00 containing everything needed for the compilation of the software. You have a README.txt file where all the details necessary to make software FDiaoulek 2.01 work on your computer are given.

You can also use the included icon to make a launcher on your desktop. For example on Ubuntu or Mint, have a right click on the desktop -- create launcher -- /home/xxxx/D2-01-00/diaou.x

From time to time check for new versions of the already published lessons or for entirely new ones. For that, you only need to write !update in the command line located on top of the left window.