A plugin for FieldWorks Language Explorer which permits sharing of LIFT dictionary data with remote colleagues using FLEx or WeSay.
(Last revision of this page: 12 April 2013)
Lift Bridge (Windows) is available for download. This version can only be installed on FLEx versions 7.2.4 -> 7.2.7.
Lift Bridge is now in 'maintenance mode' as new versions of it will be provided as crucial bug foxes are found and fixed in Lift Bridge or in code it uses. No new capability is expected for Lift Bridge that works with the Flex 7.2.4-7 series. There will also not be a Linux version of Lift Bridge, as there will not be a Linux version of the FLEx 7.2.x series. The Linux team jumped from FW 7.0.6 to the FW 7.3 series and skipped the FW 7.1 and FW 7.2 versions.
While there won't be new development for Lift Bridge in this edition, Lift Bridge will definitely continue under development, but in a different way. The Lift Bridge code base has been merged with the FLEx Bridge code base. Access to the functionality of both bridges is be available in the FLEx 8.0 series.
Some documentation is available, but it is not complete.
Lift Bridge works best with FieldWorks 7.2.7 (available here).
- Register a user account.
- Request that a new project be added to the Language Depot server by sending an email to admin@languagedepot.org with the following information:
I would like to set up an additional project for <Some Language>.
- My username: myusername
- Project name: <XYZ> Dictionary
- ISO-639 code: <MyCode>
Sign up here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/liftbridgedev
Lift Bridge is written in C#. The UI widgets uses Windows Forms from the Chorus library.
To get the source code, you'll need Mercurial. Windows users, install TortoiseHg. Then from a command line, go to where you keep your development projects, and give this command:
hg clone <http://hg.palaso.org/liftbridge>
You should now have a solution which you can build using any 2010 edition of Visual Studio 2010, including the free Express version.
Some of the dependencies are large, and others are updated frequently. For both of those reasons, you can't just pull the code and expect it to compile. First, you will have to do some extra work to get Lift Bridge's library dependencies up to date.
Get binaries of Palaso libraries from http://build.palaso.org/repository/downloadAll/bt32/.lastSuccessful/artifacts.zip. This is really the latest, so don't be disheartened if there's some API change which Lift Bridge hasn't updated to yet. We keep them in sync generally, but a few times a year they may be out of sync by a day or so.
Using the contents of the zip, update the palaso libraries in lib/Debug and lib/Release.
Get binaries of Chorus libraries from http://build.palaso.org/repository/downloadAll/bt2/14146:id/artifacts.zip. This is really the latest, so don't be disheartened if there's some API change which Lift Bridge hasn't updated to yet. We keep them in sync generally, but a few times a year they may be out of sync by a day or so.
Using the contents of the zip, update the Chorus libraries in lib/Debug and lib/Release.
- DownloadsUrl: http://downloads.palaso.org/LiftBridge/