Sinhala Inline for Firefox

Today I am going to introduce you to a new Firefox extension which help you to type in Sinhala Language.

you can type in Sinhala pronunciation of the word in English letters and translate as required.

An image of the Sinhala Tool Bar is shown below.

When Inactive

When Active

You can type in English letters in any text area in the browser window and by pressing

Convert Button or appropriate shortcut keys (F2 or Ctrl+Space) you can convert it to Sinhala Unicode Characters.

Small discription of the tool bar is given below.

Enable/Disable - To activate deactivate the tool bar

Preview Box- This box displays the converted form of the English letters you input while you are entering.In     some special cases you have to explicitly select the word to be previewed in the Preview box.

Convert- This converts the selected English pronunciation of the words to Sinhala unicode letters (if you haven't select any word,the entire text area is going to be converted).you can use the shortcut keys (F2 or Ctrl+Space) to do the same conversion and the right click menu button(Which will be shown to you later).

Copy- This button copies the converted form of the English word/letters (entire text area when not selected any word).

Clear-Clears the preview box and the current text input area.

Scheme-You can see the conversion scheme (English letters to Sinhala) by clicking this.

Help & Tips- A help window appears to describe the use of various buttons and menus and it gives few tips to improve the usability of the application.

About - This will show information about the Author (MY SELF :D )

The right click menu button is shown below.

Since this is the initial release of the extension more update version will come in future with more improvements.Please feel free to give any suggestions you prefer to have in the application.

How to install

Down load the file from the link given below and simply drag and drop it to firefox window.Then you will be asked to install it.

Click Here to Download