Progress
Visual Translator
Guide


Global Translation

This section describes how to use the Progress Visual Translator to translate text phrases globally.

Follow these steps to translate text phrases globally:

  1. From the Translations tab folder, choose Edit Replace. The Replace dialog box appears:
  2. In the Find What field, type the source phrase you want to translate.
  3. In the Find section, activate Source.
NOTE: Finding by source phrase results in optimum performance.

  1. Activate the options you want to use during the Find process:
    • Ignore Leading Spaces — If you activate this toggle box (the default), the Visual Translator finds the phrase you specify in the Find What field even if it has blank spaces in front of it.
    • Case Sensitive — If you activate this toggle box, the Visual Translator finds the phrase only if it exactly matches the uppercase and lowercase letters you specify. For example, if you specify “Close,” it does not find “close” or “CLOSE.”
    • Use Wildcards — If you activate this toggle box, the Visual Translator lets you use an asterisk (*) and a period (.) as wildcards in the Find What field. For example, if you specify “*cat*”, it finds all phrases that contain “cat,” such as “concatenate” and “category.” If you specify “.File,” it finds all phrases that contain “File” preceded by a single character, for example, “_File.”
  2. In the Replace What field, type the target phrase you want to replace. If you want to replace all target phrases for the specified source phrase, leave the Replace What field blank.
  3. In the Replace With field, type the target phrase you want to use. In the example shown below, the translator is translating all instances of the English source phrase “File” to the German target phrase “Datei”:

In the following example, the translator is changing the target phrase to “Datei” only for those instances of “File” that have a target phrase of “Akte”:

  1. Choose Replace All.
  2. If the text phrase is for a user-interface object in a resource procedure or for a message and you would like to see the translation in context, select a row that contains the translation you want to view, then click the View button.
  3. The corresponding resource procedure or an alert box containing the message appears.


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