I wonder how you guys deal with this problem. I got to the point I need to translate the project into another language and there is about 500 Apps. What I see the only option to translate is from within SC environment. I have a person who would do translation but this person is not a developer and will not do any kind of development except translation. NOW - DO I HAVE TO PURCHASE ANOTHER LICENSE just for that ? There is no other way ? I can’t believe they implemented such a crap and claim one can build multi-lingual projects. Is there any work around that ?
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Language file are located in xxx/scriptcase/app/project/_lib/lang
In my case I create the apps in English the file is en_us.lang.php. All the new entry I create I name them {lang_project_xxx}
When I am doing translation I copy the new entry from en_us.lang.php to fr.lang.php (french in my case) and translate it with a text editor.
It’s very easy and much faster than using the SC language module
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SC creates a php file with a huge array with all of the translations, maybe you could provide your translator the lang variable name, the original language and ask him/her to translate it and the you could create your target language file
A workaround could be is making a schedule such that the translator works in the hours when the licence is not used by the developer. SC interface for translation can be helpful. but i agree , this part should be separated from development into a separate solution/product.
I used google to auto translate report texts and store the translations in a database such that you do not have to google translate the same chunk of text twice. This enabled edits of the translations via a form. this solution implies that all the labels and texts go through a php function to do the check and translate new chunks. the results were very good. we managed to auto translate quite complex house inspection texts and deliver reports in multiple languages.
Hello,
You can use the files containing the language variables and send them to your translator.
You will find them in path:
scriptcase/devel/conf/grp/project_name/lang
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That’s nice, this is where the one specific to the project is store. I would I like to know that before.
At least it make easier than my way.
But if SC add a simple download and upload of the project lang file in the IDE it would be much more easier for many
Thank you
My initial language file has about 7000 lines. Multiply this by 6 or more languages and I end up with 42000 lines to translate. Google translator would take only 5000 characters at the time, so doing it through Google has to be divided by pages and would take around 2 weeks to do.
I was also thinking how to do updates (i.e. when new Labels, Menu entires etc are added to the project).
The challenge here is how to keep track which lines have been added or changed ?
For example I change a column name in a table. I then change the LABEL {lang_…} variable for that column to something different. I wish there is some kind of flag to indicate what has been added or changed.
How about keeping the Language variables in database ?
For example:
COL1 = “$this->Nm_lang[‘lang_log_title’] =”
COL2 = “System log error”
COL3 = “Raport systemu logowania”
COL3 =…
where CLO1- for English, COL3 for Polish, COL3 for Spanish etc.
and so on. Then read these and combine (read: CONCAT…) into one string based on language needed. Then such a file can be simply saved ad PHP file. For many languages this table structure should be a bit different.
There are many ways of doing this and NETMAKE should take care of that.