Hi guys
Does this mean that Jamal's stand-alone language translation app and the
one included in WebClient will also stop working? That will be a major
disaster! I use them regularly. What on earth could Google's thinking
behind this have been?
From a very dismayed
Christo
On 2011/06/05 3:29 AM, RicksPlace wrote:
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] <mailto:[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
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*From:* RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:51 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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
