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vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1472 Location: Ukraine

Dear all,

After many years I decided to update gxlat. There is a great little script (included in the archive) called trans that can deal with Google's new translate API. gxlat now uses that to fetch translations. Just unpack and copy files to the appropriate places. perhaps somebody can make a pet. Smile

With kind regards,
vovchik

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1472 Location: Ukraine

Dear all,

A forum friend has kindly provided a pet of gxlat, which is attached here. Thanks. Let me know how this little app works for you...i use it nearly every day for something or other that comes up and needs translation. Your mileage may vary. Smile

With kind regards,
vovchik

musher0 · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2018, 16:00 Post subject:

Hi Vovchik.

Good to see you back! Smile

Google Translation, eh? Why not DeepL? Some say it translates better than Google.

Just a thought.

mikeslr · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2018, 16:29 Post subject: Thanks

Thank you, vovchik, and thank your friend for us.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1472 Location: Ukraine

@ musher0 and mikeslr,

Thanks guys. As I haven't done anything with gtkdialog for a long time (doing things in BaCon, c and c++ lately), perhaps one of you can look at that pesky swap button code. It should, in theory, swap bottom and top languages in the combo boxes and the texts in the edit boxes, but it's not doing that properly. And since trans works so nicely, I think we should stick with it. We could also experiment with the various engines it supports (aspell, google, deepl, bing, spell, hunspell, apertium and yandex). I haven't tried deepl, but it's certainly worth experimenting with. Perhaps there could be a combo box with some of those engines, so the user can try and compare translations. And a checkbox for sound might be good, too, since trans can play audio. Smile

In any case, I hope it is working reasonably now.

With kind regards,
vovchik

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1472 Location: Ukraine

Dear all,

I updated gxlat. It now allows you to select the translation engine via a combbox and also can let you hear the translation (if the service provides this option) by enabling the Sound checkbox. Google and Bing are pretty good regarding sound availability. You need to have mplayer, mpv, espeak or mpg123 installed to get sound. You first will hear the translation and then get the translated text in the bottom text box. Enjoy. Smile

With kind regards,
vovchik

BarryK · Posted: Sat 28 Jul 2018, 10:11 Post subject:

What a great app!

I have posted about it on my blog:

http://bkhome.org/news/201807/gxlat-language-translator.html

Fixed a couple of things in the PET, and bumped the version to 0.4, uploaded here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/noarch/packages/pet/pet_packages-noarch/gxlat-0.4.pet

...let me know if I did anything wrong with the changes that I made.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4848 Location: Blue Springs, MO

When L18l was using my alternative to gettext, I wrote up a shell function that used Google translate to automatically generate translated strings. That function could be useful to add to your app for .po files. Let me know if you are interested and I will dig up the thread. One part that I know will need to be changed (besides using po files) is that it generates results for all supported language even if it already exists. Honestly, it probably belongs in the woof build process too, but it needs to be tested and having a nice GUI for translating installed apps could help with our severe lack of localization.

MochiMoppel · Joined: 26 Jan 2011 Posts: 1744 Location: Japan

I can't get any version to work in slacko 5.6 Crying or Very sad

Obviously a problem with trans and not with the gxlat GUI

slavvo67 · Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 1578 Location: The other Mr. 305

The "Swap" button only moves to: over to the from:field but the to: field stays the same. Would be nice if you started typing the language in the box and it goes to that letter. Overall, minor issues. Well done!

Slavvo67

Argolance · Posted: Wed 08 Aug 2018, 08:15 Post subject:

Bonjour,

MochiMoppel · Joined: 26 Jan 2011 Posts: 1744 Location: Japan

BarryK · Posted: Tue 14 Aug 2018, 08:26 Post subject:

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 928 Location: Staffordshire

The trans script is from here:
https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1472 Location: Ukraine

Dear all,

Thanks for the comments. The trans prog (including URL) is explained in the readme - click that button in Help. Many have given me a lot of good suggestions, so I will try to incorporate those in a subsequent version (favourites, swap fix, logo change depending on xlat engine). I didn't run into any problems with trans or gawk since I am using version 4.0.1. Version 4.0 is a requirement, it seems. Let's hope Google does not change its API. Smile

With kind regards,
vovchik