Hi Bruce, In addition to David's great advice, you will also need to find every message your program may print or speak or display, and you will need to put it into an xml string, and change your program to use the value from the xml strings. This is the very first step once you know you have a translator lined up to help you.
After you've done this, you have your translator give you the equivalent strings for the language under discussion, and then you use UIDesign to create another language section in your XML file, and you enter all of the translations into the same named strings that you were using in your English portion. It's important to keep the string names the same. Hth, Chip Chip Orange Florida Public Service Commission Computer Systems Analyst 850-413-6314 -----Original Message----- From: Scripting [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David via Scripting Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 1:03 PM To: Jonathan C. Cohn; Window-Eyes Scripting List Subject: Re: Adding Langueages Your first issue, would be to get in touch with someone who can perform the actual translation for you. NEVER, and I cannot stress this enough - so once again NEVER trust any electronic, or automated translation service. Your product would come out in a manner that would simply give no professional touch at all, but look no less than one of these fishy, spammy product that you can download from less reputable webservices. So, get in touch with someone who knows for real, the language you want the product translated into. From there, as suggested, the UI Design app will be a good friend, unless you are comfortable with editting the XML file directly. Based on my own experience, may I suggest that you copy all the strings to be translated, into a text file which you can send to the translator. When they have finished the translation, have them send it back to you, and you then can copy and paste the translated text into its proper osistions in the XML file. That is, unless they are a bit more familiar with operating the computer in a software developing environment, in which case they could easily be trained to do the translation directly in the UI Design's interface. But many translators are good at their job, namely to translate, and may not want to hazzle around with the interface of the UI Design, however easy and smooth that app has become by the years. HTH, David On 11/26/2015 5:50 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn via Scripting wrote: > If you use the strings XML object it is mostly a manner of copying the > strings to a new language. In the XML file. There is an app called somethings > like UI design that can help with ensuring that you copy every string > definition from one language to the next. > > > Jonathan Cohn > >> On Nov 26, 2015, at 11:32 AM, LB via Scripting >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi! >> >> I have never done it before, what is the best way to have an app do >> other langueages? >> >> I just got an email from someone who wanted it in Polish... >> >> Bruce >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author >> and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/jon.c.cohn%40gmail.com. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author > and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com > > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/corange%40psc.state.fl.us. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com
