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Translation Manager
Guide
Data Tab Folder
Use the Data tab folder to extract text phrases from the source procedures, set filters, load text phrases into the project database, generate resource procedures, and view or edit the source procedures. "Preparing Data for Translation,"discusses how to use this folder. Figure A–2 shows the Data tab folder.
Figure A–2: Data Tab Folder
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The Data tab folder contains the following user-interface elements:
- Language Combo Box — Displays the name of the current target language.
- Browse Viewer:
- Source Phrase — Displays the text phrase in the original, source language.
- Target Phrase — Displays the text phrase in the current target language.
- Procedure Name — Displays the name of the procedure file that contains the text phrase.
- # Occurs — Displays the number of times the text phrase occurs in the procedure file.
- Line Number — Indicates the line numbers on which the text phrase occurs in the procedure file or its associated include (.i) file. Displays the unknown value (?) if the text phrase occurs on more than one line number in the procedure file.
- Justification — Provides the justification format for the text phrase in the user interface: Center, Right, Left, or Trim.
- Length — Provides the number of characters allocated for the text phrase.
- Object Name — Indicates the type of user-interface object that contains the text phrase.
- Statement — Indicates the Progress 4GL statement associated with the text phrase.
- Item — Provides a Progress 4GL keyword that clarifies the Progress 4GL statement.
NOTE: You can double-click on any field to display the Long String Translator dialog box. You can view the source string text in the Source String viewer. You can view and edit target string text in the Target String viewer.- Comments — Lets you enter comments about the text phrase for your own use. The translators will not see these comments; they can only view the comments you write in the Procedures tab folder.
- Action Buttons:
- Extract — Displays the Extract dialog box, which lets you extract text phrases from the source procedures into a temporary STRING-XREF file.
- Filters — Displays the Filter Wizard, which lets you specify filters where you load the text phrases from the STRING-XREF file to the project database. The Filter Wizard contains fourteen panels. The first ten let you specify the 4GL text phrases you want to include. Panels eleven, twelve, and thirteen let you specify words you want to exclude. The final panel provides a summary of the filters you specified.
- Load — Displays the Load dialog box, which lets you load the text phrases from the STRING-XREF file, through the filters, into the project database.
- Resources — Displays the Resources dialog box, which lets you generate resource procedures that the translators will use to visualize the application as they translate the text phrases.
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