>There's a way to create a autocomplete feature, the user begin type and see
>grayed the possible matchs for that word (something like the auto complete
>xtra) and when they stop to type or the word is finished, the translation
>for that word appear in other window??
That's what I hoped you were trying to do :-)
Of course, Buzz is right even in this case--you have a big challenge. You
will need to have, essentially, an English-Portuguese thesaurus.
I assume you probably speak Portuguese, or at least another language in
addition to English. So you are aware that words seldom map one-to-one
across languages. For example the English verb "to be" maps to two concepts
in most other languages--one for existence and one for location. Spanish,
"ser" and "estar." Chinese: "zai" and "shi."
That's further confused by cross-mapping. E.g., the Chinese "shi" means "to
be" (existence), but is also used for "yes."
The point is that you're likely to have a pretty big database, and very
seldom will the user be able to type a word and get an automatic
translation--he/she will usually need to select from a list of words. Some
words that have very specific meanings will work ok, like "penguin." Check
out the word "run," though, and you will find a couple dozen different
meanings.
It can be done, but I question whether Director is really the right
environment. It sounds more like a C++ project. From your description, it
doesn't sound like you're really planning to utilize Director's multimedia
features very much. If that's true, it's probably not the right tool.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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