Paul-lmi --
You should add this to our issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/list
I can see how it is frustrating that the newlines get sanitized. For now, I
would suggest splitting your requests on newlines.
-Ben
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:49 PM, paul-lmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Could you elaborate on your example code a bit? I understand the
> concept, but I'm a little lost in the implementation in regards of
> what is fitting where. Could you maybe write it as an extension to
> the official examples?
>
> On Jul 25, 9:00 pm, "jgeerdes [AJAX APIs \"Guru\"]"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I could be wrong, but I really don't think that the Language API
> > returns formatted text like you're wanting. What you could do,
> > though, is submit separate queries for each line, using a function
> > closure that would remind your callback what it was replacing.
> > Something like this might work:
> >
> > function(textarea,source,destination){
> > var lines=textarea.value.split(/\n/),
> > myCallback=function(srcStr){return function(result)
> > {finishTranslation(srcStr,textarea,result);}};
> > for(var y=0;y<lines.length;y++){
> > var line=lines[y];
> > if(line.match(/[a-z]/i)){
> > google.translate(line,source,destination,myCallback(line));
> > }
> > }}
> >
> > function finishTranslation(srcStr,result){
> > if(result.error){
> > // Error processing here
> > return;
> > }
> > textarea.value.replace(srcStr,result.translation);
> > // Do other stuff
> >
> > }
> >
> > It should be noted that this will, in theory (I haven't tested it),
> > send a request for any line that contains an alphabetic character
> > (i.e., because you don't need to translate numbers or whitespace) and
> > then replace that string with the translation.
> >
> > Jeremy R. Geerdes
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> >
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> >
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