Yeh, the JS is pretty complex, particularly because it is a very rigid website so text blocks differing in size with the translations became a bit of a pain, a fluid website would have made things tons easier.
It seems your all good with your sites now anyway, so all the best! James On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:01 PM, stacef <[email protected]> wrote: > Again, thanks for the promptness! > > Adam, thanks for reminding me of that feature and you're right, it > might just mitigate the need for the dropdown to be high up on the > page. > > James, that's a mighty slick implementation! Not sure what the JS > looks like but I'm guessing it's pretty complicated. I also briefly > experimented with something similar but had big problems page layout - > the divs I had to add for the JS to work seemed to throw everything > off. > > FWIW, I've got 15 sites running under WPMU for our elementary school > so lots of moving parts. > > Thanks again! > Stace > > > On Apr 16, 2:30 pm, James Clennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stace - Is what you want to do, like this: > http://www.mu130s.projects.glos.ac.uk > > > > If so, and you are willing to do a lot of rejigging of code, then study > that > > code and see what you can do, I can try to help where necessary if you > get > > stuck. > > > > Regards > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:57 PM, stacef <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the quick replies! > > > > > Adam - I actually like the inline display; what I want is a different > > > way for the user to get there. Instead of a drop down of many > > > choices, I would like a single text link for a single language. > > > > > Jeremy - Thanks for the links but I know just enough JS to be > > > dangerous. Any chance you can help me narrow down the controls I'm > > > looking for? Again, I'm happy with the result provided by the gadget; > > > I just want to use a single text link for a single language. The API > > > seems pretty powerful and I'm just not sure what I'm looking for. > > > > > Thanks again for the thoughts. > > > > > Stace > > > > > On Apr 15, 2:56 pm, Adam Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > If you get the Translate Element through this configuration page, you > > > > can set it to turn off the inline display: > > >http://www.google.com/webelements/translate/ > > > > > > Is this the functionality that you're looking for? > > > > > > Also, I'm sorry that there are multiple entry points for this > element; > > > > that's definitely something we want to fix in the future. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Adam > > > > > > On Apr 15, 2:33 pm, stacef <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Not sure if this is a total API question but not sure where else to > > > > > post. > > > > > > > I'm currently using the Google Translate Gadgethttp:// > > > translate.google.com/translate_tools > > > > > and it works well for our needs. In fact, I love the AJAX instant > > > > > translation and don't mind the Google bar added to the top of > > > > > translated pages. > > > > > > > My issue comes with initial interface: the Gadget places an > English- > > > > > language dropdown stacked above a Google logo on the page, taking > up > > > > > some amount of vertical space and sort of ugly. I would prefer to > > > > > offer two or three horizontal text links for specific languages and > in > > > > > those languages. Again, I'm happy with with comes after the > initial > > > > > user click. > > > > > > > Any ideas on how to get what I'm after? > > > > > > > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions! > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<google-ajax-search-api%[email protected]><google-ajax-search-api% > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-ajax-search-api%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-ajax-search-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
