Coming Soon: Translation UI

Friday, February 29, 2008

We're getting ready to release another beta version of Zoundry Raven in the next few days. One of the new features that will finally be present is a User Interface for translating Raven into other languages. Zoundry Blog Writer had this feature, and it made the translation process go much more smoothly. First of all, let me just give a huge thanks to those Raven fans who have offered to do translations for various languages. We really appreciate it, since we don't have the resources necessary to do it ourselves. And of course, my standard apology for taking so long to get it implemented: sorry!

The Translation User Interface is pretty simple. There is a Translation Manager that can be accessed from the main Help menu. The Translation Manager displays a list of translations already present (currently none). You can use the Translation Manager to edit existing translations and add new translations. When you create a new translation, the New Translation dialog presents you with a list of languages (which is defaulted to the one that matches your system locale).

Once you have one or more translation in the list, you can go ahead and start translating. Do this by double-clicking on a translation or selecting one and clicking Edit. The window that pops up is the Translation Editor window. Use the Translation Editor window to do your translating. Once you are done (you can stop at any time and resume later), don't forget to click Save.

Here is a quick tip when using the Translation Editor: if you have a bundle string selected in the list, hitting the ENTER key will move the focus to the translation text box. After typing your translation, hitting ENTER again will register the change and set the focus back up to the list. If you have the "Show only untranslated strings" option enabled, you can do translations very quickly by hitting ENTER again (as the next string in the list would have been selected automatically).

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