Rick, since they are getting rid of this api are they deploying a newer translation API?
From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 6:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Google Translate Project Cancelled Hi Chip: Ya, just what I need, more learning - grin. OK, so I just reviewed the Microsoft Translator API and it looks like it might work. I have my vb.net app set up in classes so all my language functions are in my LanguageHandler class. All other classes call into this class for any language services. thus I can just replace the google api http REST interface code in there and the rest of the application will remain the same. That said there is allot of code that I used to convert, compare and evaluate the various combinations of Microsoft language codes, required for the culture settings, and the google codes which were required for the google interface - sigh. I am leaning twoard a SOAP protocol since I found a DeskTop example of translation code for the MS Translator. I have never used SOAP so it will, shudder, be another "learning experience". I might just convert it to the http version which I am more familiar with but that is for tomorrow's fun. For now I am just glad I took the time to modularize my code up front or I would have had to mess with allot of other tested and solid code. I was gathering the technicals to add a background worker to the loading of the app on the installation so I could have a progress indicator of how the translation process was getting on when all this went down. Anyway, it is not as bad, I hope, as I first thought so it is off to do some homework about using SOAP and, or HTTP with the Microsoft Translator API from a DeskTop App. Guess this puppy might still hunt one day. Later Chip and thanks for the reply. Rick USA ----- Original Message ----- From: Chip Orange <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 9:01 PM Subject: RE: Google Translate Project Cancelled wwhhhaaaa!!! Sorry to hear that Rick; especially after you put all the work in. Oh well, you're that much better a programmer for having spent that time learning, that's what you have to remind yourself! Chip _____ From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Google Translate Project Cancelled Hi: I just found out Google is deprecating it's Translate API by the end of this year. Therefore, my project to auto-translate WE Script UI Elements is also deprecated. I will look at the possibility of using Microsoft's Translate services but my code base is 90 percent done for the Google Translate version. It might require a massive ReWrite to switch to a SOAP or other HTTP Request / Response protocol or whatever... Anyway, I see no reason to continue the current project - thanks Google. Rick USA
