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Geoffrey wrote: I've done a comparison of Goot and gxlat and found that Goot is about twice as fast at getting a translation and the app startup times is about the same, I know it's quite large though I do have a number of other java apps so the size is of no consequence to me, I would say it all l depends on the hardware being used.

Bernie_by_the_Sea wrote:

Geoffrey wrote: I've done a comparison of Goot and gxlat and found that Goot is about twice as fast at getting a translation and the app startup times is about the same, I know it's quite large though I do have a number of other java apps so the size is of no consequence to me, I would say it all l depends on the hardware being used.

I also have other java apps. I've been using the Firefox/SeaMonkey addon, Quick Translator. Any idea how it compares with these two? I dislike Google almost as much as Microsoft.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ranslator/

vovchik wrote: I still have to do something about escaping double quotes and ampersands in the text. Any ideas? Please look at the function translate in the gxlat script.

vovchik wrote:Dear mcewanw (William),

Thanks. Please have a look at the parsing stuff.

vovchik wrote:PS. Es ist einfach das Zeug zu ändern/verbessern. Bezüglich Netzwerkverbindungen, Gxlat funktioniert bei mir tadellos - in Wien und sogar in der Ukraine.

and here is the translation that gxlat wrote:PS. It's just what it takes to change / improve. Regarding network connectivity, Gxlat works perfectly for me - in Vienna and even in Ukraine.

# *********************
# MAIN
# *********************

init_vars
#check_inet
# replacement for check_inet part 1 L18L
yaf-splash -placement center -bg yellow -fontsize large -text "`gettext "Please wait, probing primary remote site..."`" &
YPID=$!
for n in 3 2 1 0
do
 myDUMMY_TEXT=`wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=dummy&langpair=en|de" | sed 's/.*"translatedText":"\([^"]*\)".*}/\1\n/' `
 [ "$myDUMMY_TEXT" != "" ] && break
 sleep `echo $n`
 #echo -n $n
done
# end replacement for check_inet part 1 L18L

make_help_gui
make_readme_gui
make_gui
export -f swap_langs
export -f strip_lang_name
export -f translate
#gtkdialog3 -p MAIN
# replacement for check_inet part 2 L18L
if [ "$myDUMMY_TEXT" != "" ] 
then
 kill $YPID
 gtkdialog3 -p MAIN
else
 T_noco=$(gettext "Don't wait, no connection to remote site...")
 echo "$T_noco"
 yaf-splash -placement center -bg yellow -fontsize large -text "$T_noco"
fi 
# end replacement for check_inet part 2 L18L

# *********************
# END MAIN
# *********************

vovchik wrote:Dear L18L,

Much better! Thanks. Do you want to post a revised pet or should I? Very nice mod.

With kind regards,
vovchik

vovchik wrote:Do you want to post a revised pet or should I?

you wrote:...
your font isn't showing utf-8
...

L18L wrote:Dear Vovchik,
this version displays correctly < > " & ' (without changing them)
except: some languages seem to be trained to translate & as and.

I have filtered from_text and to_text using sed, see dat/flt_upstream and flt_downstream and
SUB translate
FUNCTION extract_translated_text()

Having finished this I discovered your html_clean.bac , too late.
My sed solution has the advantage that you can play with the filters without recompiling.

Added some tooltips and changed help to display buttons.

Regards