Firstly, I got my mail address wrong, due to a sluggish keyboard here. the
correct one is
[email protected]
Secondly, as to the translators online. I have been using a few. Generally,
most of them tend to have rather limitted vocabulary, hence leaving you with no
other choice but to skip from one to the other, to get as fully a translation
as possible. I have been translating for a software developer for a couple of
years, and so will know what the job is all about. In my possition as here
described, I do hold that the bbest and most reliable free online service,
would be at translation.google.com. Yet, their webpage has a lack in
accessibility, as the comboboxes for choosing language is not recognized in
WE'ss browse mode. Still, don't despair. Go to app central, and download the
TranslateLanguage app. First installed, simply hit Ctrl-Alt-F7, and follow
onscreen instructions. It is a perfect script for line-by-line translations.
And it does make use of the Google service mentioned above. Only thing is, that
this is a computerized translation. That means, unless you have knowledge about
the target language, you might easily end up with funny meanings in your
translations. So, your idea of having someone do the proofreading, is a good
one. Only in small cases like here, it might be just as easy to have someone do
the translation in real life, since they'd be able to ensure the correctness of
the translation right away. The TranslateLanguage app has proven itself
beneficial in a long line of cases, I find. Not only in my activity of
translating software, but also in cases where you come across pieces of
information in other languages, and just need to have the main idea what it is
all about. I.e, when browsing places like EBay, and you come across a product
like a PC that is all described in German. You would easily enough understand
the CPU speed, amount of RAM and so forht, since these are internationally
known notations. Yet, you don't understand the german description of whether
this is a second-hand product, and to what extend it is all functional. That is
where the app can be helpful. Just for an example of the benefits of having it
ready at hand, in your Window-Ees. My suggestion is for you to install it, and
play around with it for half an hour. Smile.
My offer of translating for you into Norwegian, is based on the fact that I
have firsthand knowledge of that language. And, also, I could translate to
Danish, if you want. That is the two languages I am doing for the other
software, so I know what it is about. Smile.
Again, contact me off-list, and we'll sort the rest out directly in between the
two of us. No need to clutter the list with that...
----- Original Message -----
From: RicksPlace
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central
Hi David: Thanks and I will take you up on that. I am currently looking for a
free, accurate OnLine translator.
When I pick one out I will likely put the results of a few translations up
in a post to see if anyone can comment on whether the translation makes
sense in the targeted languages.
If you know of a good translator post up - I am about to ask for ideas on
list or on another list I am on for blind programmers.
I have looked at a few now but they are either clunky to try and use or
have accessibility issues. Also, I have no idea which sites offer decent
translations so I will ask around before picking one.
Later David and again, thank you.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central
We'll have it translated into Norwegian, if you want. Contact me off-list.
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: RicksPlace
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central
Hi Chip: I agree! Even during this project I lost workdue to
inadvertently having more than one version of a NotePad file open at once
without knowing.
I'll be glad to put a NotePad script up but want to tweak it a bit first.
The xml file needs to be cleaned up and some strings should be more
descriptive.
If there are any other things you can think of in NotePad that could
benefit from scripting let me know and I'll add them prior to uploading if I
can.
I might put a question out on list, and perhaps the Blind Programming
list, to see if I can get someone to translate the warning message into a
foreign language so I can see how that works.
Another option here might be to use one of those online translators but
I'm not sure how good they are.
Later:
Rick USA
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:33 PM
Subject: RE: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central
Very nice Rick; thanks, and I hope everyone in the class will download
the .zip file attached to Rick's message. he's not only provided his solution,
but he's provided a "walk through" document, a kind of log of his process for
developing this app and debugging and testing it as he put the two parts
together, to make sure everything was working ok.
Rick, I've decided this is useful enough to me that I'm going to keep
mine running, but I don't feel like taking on the support of another app just
now. so, if you'd like to do it, feel free to finish it off and upload it to
app central; I think it's useful and belongs in the program enhancements. If
you don't feel like doing it though, maybe let the list know in case someone
else would like to take it on?
One thing I'd like to mention to the beginning students: in my
examples, I've always placed the code of the main body of any app at the start
of the .vbs file. You'll find Rick has placed his down into the .vbs file (a
not uncommon practice), marked with a comment.
this is all the same to Window-eyes, no matter where it's placed, it
takes all the statements which are not in a subroutine or function, and groups
them together and executes them as the main body; just something I thought I
should mention now, as I don't ever recall mentioning this point earlier, and
someone may have thought there was no main body code.
Chip
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From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central
Hi Chip: Here is the Script files for the NotePad script we were
working on in class.
It is unfinished since I did not want to upload it to App Central
unless this is the version that would be a good Production Fit with anything
else up there for NotePad.
Also, since I have not uploaded it I don't have a real ID, ScriptNamed
Website and whatever else goes along with uploading a script properly. That
said, this is getting close and I will check out any docs on uploading scripts.
I to not want to add to the bloat that is happening with the available
scripts by putting up some test script so will wait until I hear from you here
or in class.
Anyway, it's done for now so it is what it is.
Let me know if you are going to put a real NotePad script up or if you
are going to modify an existing script.
Rick USA
