Upload your own Vocabulary



ProVoc (Mac)



Using this special ProVoc version:
 ProVoc 4.3.0 (Version 4.3.0; Filesize 5,3 MB; Leopard, Snow Leopard)
... you can upload your own vocabulary files from your Mac into iVocabulary to take your vocabulary to-go.

ProVoc and iVocabulary communicate using the wireless lan. Both systems, your Mac and the iPhone / iPod Touch, must be connected to the same network and must be able to reach each other (you may need to reconfigure your firewalls).

To upload your own vocabulary file you need to:
  • Open your vocabulary file in ProVoc
  • Open iVocabulary and go to the initial screen
  • Activate Bonjour: Plus-icon on the start screen and then choose Bonjour
  • In the menu in ProVoc choose “Vocabulary” and “Send to iVocabulary”
  • Enter some information about your vocabulary and send your vocabulary to iVocabulary
  • After a successful upload the vocabulary will be available in iVocabulary

If you upload a vocabulary file a second time, the history will be overridden.



With the Vocabulary Editor (Windows, Linux, ...)



For the Vocabulary Editor you need Java (version 1.6 or newer). You can start the Vocabulary Editor with this link:

Vokabulary Editor (Java WebStart)

The upload of the vocabulary to iVocabulary is done via wireless lan. Both systems, your PC and the iPhone / iPod Touch, must be connected to the same network and must be able to reach each other (you may need to reconfigure your firewalls).

To upload the vocabulary you do the following steps:
  • Start the Vocabulary Editor (Link above)
  • Open a vocabulary file (xvoc) or create a new one and enter your vocabulary
  • Start iVocabulary on your iPhone / iPod Touch
  • Activate Bonjour: Plus-icon on the start screen and then choose Bonjour
  • In the Vocabulary Editor the button „Upload to iVocabulary“ gets activated (if not, look below)
  • Enter information about the author (you?) and the vocabulary and send them to iVocabulary

Problems uploading with Windows



If the upload-icon does not get activated, please try to de- and reactivate Bonjour a few times. The Java implementation of Bonjour is a bit picky sometimes.

If that doesn’t help, please try this settings:

  • Open Control Panel > Administration > Services
  • Find „Bonjour-Service“ and open by double clicking on it
  • Open the tab „Log On“
  • „Log on as: > Local System account“ activate the option „Allow service to interact with desktop“

(Please tell me if this hint was helpful or if there were other things to do)