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by kyleabaker

V1.4 Apr 19, 2007 8:54:34 AM

Use Google to translate text directly in the widget or translate a webpage.

Google Translator uses a theme based off of Gmail's theme! You can use this widget to convert excerpts of text and entire web pages to and from multiple languages.

Please take note of the following:
* This widget will translate only the languages that can be translated by Google's own translation service. Language options will be updated as Google adds more language translation options to their service.
* This widget is for Opera 9.5+. If you need or want to use this widget on versions of Opera previous to Opera 9.5, you can use version 1.40 which can be found on the same page as the changelog (link below).

To view a changelog, go to:
http://kyleabaker.com/goodies/coding/google-translator/

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Great work ! Exactly the widget I need

By sTiger, # Jan 26, 2008 11:21:53 AM

Hi, it would be great when you would make that it remembers which languages you last wanted to translate and also a button that switches vice versa. Like if you want to translate : english-> french, with this button you make french->english, because it's frustrating to always use the list. It would help those who are beginners!

By majmum, # Jan 2, 2008 0:11:11 AM

@Opera 9.5 users
I have an updated version specifically for Opera 9.5 users due to some width dimensions changing on some of the input fields between Opera 9.2x and Opera 9.5. You can get this latest widget here..
http://www.kyleabaker.com/downloads/widgets/GoogleTranslator_141.zip

@dembler
Thanks, those are some really good suggestions! However, #2 is not exactly clear to me. Could you please explain this in a bit more detail please. I'm not sure that what you are talking about is possible with a widget, but I may be completely lost on this one.

@Everyone
Thanks to everyone else who has been supportive! I've been very busy with school lately and have not had a chance to update it much, however, the semester is over and I should have plenty of time. First things first. You can count on seeing a lot more languages in the list to translate between. The widget in it's current form is only as capable as googles own translation page. However, I can rework the backend to translate between languages that google does not offer by having it translate to one language and then to the final language. My only problem with this at the moment is the fact that these translations will loose a gre

By kyleabaker, # Dec 14, 2007 5:09:38 PM

Very good. DO you know where can I get a Indonesian translator?

By yeeliberto, # Dec 8, 2007 10:44:46 PM

Will you be adding more languages in the future?

It looks great.

By SoundOfVision, # Nov 13, 2007 9:13:38 PM

Your translator is the best I have seen!
Tanks!

By Bkbral, # Oct 27, 2007 2:15:14 PM

Thanks, I needed that!

By eestlane, # Oct 10, 2007 7:24:22 PM

In GoogleBar for Firefox, I could just click on a button to translate a webpage to my language. I didn't even have to select what language the web page was in... it figured it out on its own. Worked the majority of the time. Not only that, but links I clicked on within the web page would continue to get translated as I browsed. This really sux by comparison.

By mraeryceos, # Oct 7, 2007 0:07:07 AM

Can you make a

1.choice of languages
2.auto (hot key) capture text
3.№ of version on prominence place/in the name

By dembler, # Sep 30, 2007 4:12:02 AM

I'm working on a few more features, still trying to integrate them nicely. I'll have more translation options, clear, etc. in a future release. Thanks everyone!

By kyleabaker, # Sep 21, 2007 11:17:23 PM

Can you check, if last update was in second textarea, translate vise versa?

By SailorMax, # Sep 6, 2007 5:49:28 PM

thank you for the widget, it works great!
仕掛を、それ働かせる大きいありがとう!

By 64sotware, # Sep 4, 2007 0:18:35 AM

Muy bueno, de verdad muy bueno.

By cruzado, # Aug 25, 2007 4:00:55 AM

Very nice

Muy buen widget.. felicitaciones...

By YeGoU, # Aug 5, 2007 0:10:05 AM

Nice Widget... Maybe I just haven't discovered it yet, but I need a Clear Button. Would like to use it in chatrooms, but too slow if I have to highlight and clear manually.

Also looking for ANY online translator for Taglog (Philippines).

By elderop, # Aug 4, 2007 10:18:04 AM

Thanx for the update.

By Darken, # Jul 17, 2007 11:08:54 PM

Khaled Khalil
Haha, I think I can work out your suggestion. That is an excellent one! The translations that I have listed thus far are only the ones that google supports by default, so it will take some brain storming to figure out the best way to code this. It doesn't look too difficult. I say that now, but I always get in over my head, haha.

About the toggle button, would a simple button to switch from x2y to y2x be suitable? I'm still confused why there needs to be 2 more buttons. I'm trying to keep the interface as simple and clean as possible...you know..google style, haha (without the ads

).

By the way..I just received an email notification that my widget has won a "100% CLEAN" Softpedia award. Thanks to everyone who enjoys this little web app. Here is the link if any is interested or would like to vote!
http://www.softpedia.com/progClean/Google-Translator-Opera-Widget-Clean-78959.html

By kyleabaker, # Jul 17, 2007 8:42:36 PM

thanks for the great widget

i think spot117 meant a toggle
but i see if you have two buttons one for translation (x2y), one for toggle translation way(set translation way to y2x), so it would be better for the second to reverse translation (translate y2x).
also it could be better if the widget is extendable, i mean being able to duplicate, so you have two translation channel at a time, so you can translate in (x2y) and (y2x) or even (y2z) at the same time without loosing text in any of them.

another suggestion (that may not be as usable as it looks), sometimes you (not you exactly, may be me or any one who is not native english speaker) want to translate x2y, where neither x nor y is english, and there is no direct way between them like french and german, so it is possible to translate x2english then english2y as alternative.
in other words, translating by two steps where english is used as base reference

BTW, thanks for the nice loading icon

By Khaled Khalil, # Jul 17, 2007 4:08:41 PM

Thanks guys!

@spot117
I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Are you asking for a button to toggle between the two languages? Ex. if you had "English to Spanish" and toggle them.. "Spanish to English"? Or are you asking for a button to that resets your language to a default setting? Thanks for the suggestion, please clarify and I'll see what I can do.

In the mean time..I've updated the widget just a bit. I cleaned some more of the code and also added a loading icon so you can tell when the "Text" is being translated and when it is complete. It sort of completes the translation process a bit. Hope you like this version (1.4) a bit more, lol.

By kyleabaker, # Jul 16, 2007 7:20:24 AM

2kyleabaker:
Great widget, Thx!

I have suggestion for it: Can you add smth like prefered lang selection in options. So you can for example, Ger2Eng | Eng2Ger and switch among them with one button or radiobox. Ty for reading it.

By spot117, # Jul 7, 2007 3:50:45 PM