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Visual Translator
Guide
Main Window Tab Folders
The main interface component of the Visual Translator tool is the tab folder. Figure B–1 shows the Visual Translator tabs.
Figure B–1: Visual Translator Tab Folders
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When you click one of the tabs, the Visual Translator displays a new interface within the folder.
The following sections describe the four tab folders.
Procedures Tab Folder
The Procedures tab folder provides a list of the procedures in the kit. Click the View Procedures button to view the user interface of a procedure and translate text phrases. Figure B–2 shows the Procedures tab folder.
Figure B–2: Procedures Tab Folder
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The Procedures tab folder displays the following columns of information for each procedure in the kit:
- Procedure Name — Shows the name of the source-code procedure (.p or .w) file.
- Resource Procedure? — Indicates whether a resource procedure (.rc) file exists for the source procedure. If yes, you can click the View Procedure button to view in-context text phrases.
- Current Status — Indicates whether or not you have translated a text phrase in the procedure (untranslated), the number of phrases you have translated out of the total number of text phrases in the procedure (x of n), or whether you have translated all text phrases (translated).
- Comments — Presents comments about the procedure written by the project manager.
- Directory Name — Shows the name of the directory that contains the source-code procedure (.p or .w) files.
Translations Tab Folder
The Translations tab folder lets you view the translation data for the entire kit and allows you to translate text phrases globally or by instance. Figure B–3 shows the Translations tab folder.
Figure B–3: Translations Tab Folder
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The Translations tab folder displays the following columns of information for each text phrase:
Glossary Tab Folder
The Glossary tab folder lets you view the pairings for source and target phrases in the glossary. Figure B–4 shows the Glossary tab folder.
Figure B–4: Glossary Tab Folder
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The Glossary tab folder displays the following columns of information for each text phrase:
Type — Indicates whether the glossary entry was in the glossary provided by the project manager (D for default) or added by the translator (C for custom) by hand or through an imported glossary.
Statistics Tab Folder
The Statistics tab folder provides statistics for the language kit, such as the number of procedures, number of phrases, and number of individual words. Figure B–5 shows the Statistics tab folder.
Figure B–5: Statistics Tab Folder
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The Statistics tab folder provides the following information to help you keep track of your translation effort:
NOTE: Progress updates the Statistics tab folder whenever you choose a tab folder.
- Project Name — The project database associated with the kit.
- Description — A description of the project associated with the kit.
- Revision — The revision number for the project associated with the kit.
- Create Date — The date the project manager created the project.
- Last Updated — The date you last used the kit.
- Database Size — The size of the kit database, in bytes.
- Display Type — Indicates whether the resource procedures for the kit display in graphical or character mode.
- Number of Procedures — The number of source code (.p or .w) files that contain text phrases you have to translate.
- Number of Phrases — The number of text phrases (including repetitions) in the kit.
- Number of Unique Phrases — The number of unique text phrases in the kit.
- Number of Words — The number of individual words (including repetitions) in the kit.
- Number of Unique Words — The number of unique individual words in the kit.
- Current Procedure — The name of the procedure currently selected.
- Current Object — The type of object associated with the currently selected text phrase.
- Number of Frames — The number of frames in the current procedure.
- Number of Objects — The number of user-interface objects in the current procedure.
- % Translated — The percentage of text phrases you have translated in the kit.
- # Items in Glossary — The number of entries (pairings) in the glossary.
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