Japanese “Flash Card” Application for Flash Lite Devices

I started learning Japanese not too long ago and to help me with my studies I made a small app to familiarize myself with the Hiragana and Katakana characters. It proved to be very useful while waiting for the bus, taking the train, etc.

Here’s some screen shots:

JP Flash Card App 1 JP Flash Card App 2

You can choose to randomly display the characters for each character set and also show or hide names when the card is first displayed.

I’ve been testing on a Nokia E65 and works well. If you’ve seen this app before, you might have read my comment about the small bug that appeared in Flash Lite 2.x – how the first card was not matching the romanji name. The problem was not enough time was given to completely load the swf before calling some script. I’ve fixed this by giving more time (read as: inserting more frames) for the swf to load completely before calling any script on it. This way, the swf fully loads and is able to jump to the correct frame to match the romanji. So it works in FL 1.1, 2.x, and 3.0 now but I found it a bit strange how this problem only appeared in the newer FL versions (2.x & 3.0).

Please feel free to download it here and give it a try. If you’re studying Japanese I hope it helps!

To find out if your phone has Flash Lite pre-installed, download this pdf file originally available on Bill Perry‘s blog.

2008
03/21
CATEGORY
Flash Lite
Japanese
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    • oli
    • September 20th, 2008

    hi.. great application, i’m excited about using it. i’m using it on N95 with flash lite 2.0 but the japanese characters don’t appear.. just the English. Any suggestions?
    rgds

  2. Hi Oli,

    It sounds like the assets folder is missing from the same directory of where the Japanese.swf file resides. Inside the ‘Japanese’ folder you should have an SWF file called Japanese.swf plus a folder called ‘assets’. Inside the assets folder you will have two files called hir.swf and kat.swf. These are the SWFs that contain the Japanese characters. Ideally I’d like to have a SIS file to do this kind of installation..

    Let me know if this solves the problem. I’ve tested on an N95 and found it to be working fine!

    Thanks,
    Ryan

    • yume
    • May 7th, 2009

    Hello, Ryac.

    Thanks for this application.

    I don’t know how to instal it. I have an E65, so where should I copy the files? I copied them into the images folder and then I’ve tried to show them from the videoclips gallery but the program show me only the first kana and the slowbar doesn’t move.

    Thanks

  4. Hi Yume,

    Here are the instructions to install it manually:

    1. Find the Japanese.zip file located on your phone.

    2. Open it, then go to Options and select Mark/Unmark -> Mark all.

    3. Go to Options again and select Extract.

    4. Choose either your phone memory or your memory card.

    5. When it says “Extract to:”, you must select the folder named “Other”. This is the default folder that the FlashLite player look at.

    6. Once files have been extracted into the folder called “Other”, go to Menu -> Media -> Flash Player and find the folder called Japanese.

    7. Open that folder and select the Japanese.swf file.

    Hope this helps!

    • yume
    • May 9th, 2009

    Hi Ryan!!

    Thanks for your explanation, it’s very clear and the application works perfectly.

    Do you know any other to practice kanji?

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