Online multiuser translating

Bep

Hi to all,

Would it not be great if the sketchup user community could do the program translations themselfse via a plugin/add-on or ruby of some sort?
Can any of you make a tool like that?
(or should we wait for Google to come up with this great idea?)
An example of this feature can be seen in a genealogy program I use(Genopro).
See also the discusion on this new tool on http://support.genopro.com/Forum91-1.aspx

Greetings,

Bep van Malde

Gaieus

He is saying that SU should be made free to translate into any other languages than it is officially released in. There are many programs whose text files are separate from the application and can be translated.

Even scripts (like Fredo made it possible to translate the JPP tool in ruby or there are php scripts where you can enter your version etc.).

Jim

I know of 2 solutions for translating plugins:

SketchUp ships with langhandler.rb in the Tools folder.
Fredo6 has his LibTraductor.rb

Or did you mean to make translations for SketchUp, not SketchUp plugins?

Bep

@jim said:

I know of 2 solutions for translating plugins:

SketchUp ships with langhandler.rb in the Tools folder.

Fredo6 has his LibTraductor.rb

Or did you mean to make translations for SketchUp, not SketchUp plugins?

Hallo Jim,
What I meant was to have a possibility to let the Sketchup users translate the whole UI of Sketchup.
It is possible in the Genopro program I mentioned in my first post.(check it out)
It took 6 month to translate the user interface of this program for a great percentage, into more than 30 languages, mainly by the users of the program themselves.
I came up with the idea, when I noticed that you where working on ''Custom toolbars'' and ''common UI API'', I thought that maybe this would be the best time to come up with this idea, so you could already incorporate this functionality or a part of it, into the ruby’s you are making.
So perhaps the tooltips of the custom toolbars could already be translated.
About the custom toolbars your making possible could you incorporate a function. that with a right+click on the tool button the help file of this tool would open.
Incorporate in your rubyl the making of the tool-shortcuts.
Make fly-out toolbars possible as a choice .

To all developers ,thanks for shearing all your great ruby's
Greetings,
Bep van Malde.