Google translate in a webDialog?

driven

hi has anyone added google translate to a plugin?

I know it's a pain to do conventionally, as a webdialog is not a website so you can't use the normal route...

I've been hacking on an alternative which works on my mac, but has some timing issues so I thought I'd post it to garner comments and advice...

it may work on PC's of other persuasions...

don't have access so not sure if my liberal shortcutting will work...

it's part of a 'namespace d' script for users to translate my own plugin themselves, so this is just the barebones that I can get to work...

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# waiting("round corners")
  @ready = false
  @steady = false
  @go = false
  @source = ""

  def get_source
    source = ""
    source = @dlg1.get_element_value("source")
    @source = source
  end

  def setup_trans_late
    url = "http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=" + "hello"
    @dlg1 = UI;;WebDialog.new
    @dlg1.set_url(url)
    #@dlg1.show_modal
         ready = (UI.start_timer(0.1, true) {
         if not @source === "hello"
         get_source
      else
         UI.stop_timer(ready)
      end
      })
         @ready = true
         puts "ready = #{@ready}"
  end

  def set_return(input)
      script = %Q(source.value=") + input + '"'
      @dlg1.execute_script(script.to_s)
      steady = (UI.start_timer(0.1, true) {
       if not @source === (input.to_s)
         get_source
       else
         UI.stop_timer(steady)
       end
      })
         @steady = true
         puts "steady = #{@steady}"
  end

 def reset
   @ready = true # until close
   @steady = false
   @go = false
   p 'reset'; nil
 end

  def get_trans
     @dlg1.execute_script("

     val=result_box.textContent
     var original_html=result_box.innerHTML
         original_html=original_html.replace('<span', '<input ' + 'id= for_su ' + 'value= "" ')
         original_html=original_html.replace('</span>', '</ >')
     result_box.innerHTML=original_html
     for_su.value=val
     ")
           ret = ""
           ret = @dlg1.get_element_value("for_su")
           @ret = ret
           p @ret if not @ret === ""
           @go = true
           puts "go = #{@go}"
           reset

 end


 setup_trans_late if not @ready
# set_return('square corner') if @ready
# get_trans if @steady

def show_dialog
  @dlg2 = UI;;WebDialog.new("Translation_Test", false,
   "trans_L8", 200, 150, 150, 150, true);
  html = <<-HTML
<html><head></head><body>
      <input id="test"  type="text" >
      <input id="start2" onclick="trans_L8()" type="button" value="translate">
      <input id="start2" onclick="shw_goog()" type="button" value="show google">
      <div id="translation"></div>
<script>   function trans_L8() {
    window.location = 'skp;trans_L8@'+test.value;
    }
    function shw_goog() {
    window.location = 'skp;shw_goog';
  }</script>
</body>
  </html>
  HTML

   wait_4_goog = (UI.start_timer(0.3, false) {RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(darwin)/ ? @dlg2.show_modal() ; @dlg2.show()})

  @dlg2.set_html html
   @dlg2.add_action_callback("shw_goog") {|dialog, params|
     RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /(darwin)/ ? @dlg1.show_modal() ; @dlg1.show()
   }
  @dlg2.add_action_callback("trans_L8") {|dialog, params|
    set_return(params.to_s) if @ready
   wait_4_goog = (UI.start_timer(3, false) {ret_tran = get_trans if @steady})
   wait_4_goog = (UI.start_timer(3, false) {puts "#{@source.to_s} = #{@ret.to_s}" })
   wait_4_goog = (UI.start_timer(3, false) {@dlg2.execute_script("translation.textContent='#{@source.to_s} = #{@ret.to_s}'")})
  }
end

show_dialog

I've been going round in circles with the timers to optimise the return times, but haven't cracked it yet,,, possibly very bad coding...

john

Dan Rathbun

I tried this and also the Bing translator, but gave up. They specifically do not want them run on local html pages. And I think the license agreement for the Google translator forbids it.

driven

hi Dan
I'm running it in it's own page, but hidden on a mac

the licence forbids direct access via code with polling, I'm not doing that...

the User selects a word string hits enter, I upload that into the input field, wait for the reply, inject a textbox and assign the return as a value then retrieve that value...

It's little different that copy/pasting and requires user input, so from my understanding it's ok to do...

It's all working now for most languages, until SU lack of Encoding.default_internal screws up some input, after a write/read.
so a char that is in two WebDialogs and appears in RubyConsole as returns from both WDlg's
suddenly fails to send to a Third WD...

#<Encoding::CompatibilityError: incompatible character encodings: UTF-8 and ASCII-8BIT>

ASCII-8BIT seems to come when storing a hash ... fails on retrieval
john

Dan Rathbun

Are you using marshal for storing the hash ?

driven

@dan rathbun said:

Are you using marshal for storing the hash ?

I have in some versions, but read that storing in a .rb file, forces the encoding for the "filetype"

However, I found the issue...

IO.read versus File.read

it seems IO requires ASCII compatible chars, but File doesn't...

I was using both, and the failing dialog was the IO.read one...

john

Aerilius

Bing translator has a free API (unlike Google), and allows to send an array of strings and get an array back. I have to admit, compared to Google's statistical translator, Microsoft's rule-based translator has much success on technical documents, whereas Google Translate is better in prose and informal language.
When you feed in SketchUp's UI strings, MS Translator gives you the exact localized strings! I have an external ruby script that batch-translates .strings files. I haven't yet tried to do anything like that in SketchUp's webdialogs.

driven

my thinking is by having the full version open, you can choose to use the 'other' interpretation..

which may make it sightly more accurate?

for example...