Apparently one can send/rcv data chunks from babelfish from within Director.
see http://www.babelfish.com/
maybe that would help ...
-Buzz
At 1:57 PM -0700 6/28/01, Kerry Thompson wrote:
>>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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