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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.

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

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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

gracias...

By Jujenio, # Jul 5, 2007 3:13:43 PM

I uploaded an update. Now last used translations are saved as requested! Window states and tab states (Text/URL) are saved! Hope this makes it even more convenient to use! Thanks for the support everyone!

By kyleabaker, # Jun 20, 2007 2:11:55 AM

Is there a possibility to change the default translation settings?

By Niefer, # Jun 16, 2007 6:19:27 AM

@bigvic22393
I'll see what I can come up with.

@SailorMax
I'll work on adding that to the next update.

Thanks for the suggestions!

By kyleabaker, # Jun 15, 2007 5:32:55 AM

Excelent work!

By Merus, # Jun 14, 2007 8:26:25 AM

jaaj es algo kse espraba se mucho tiempo

By DavilaCS, # Jun 11, 2007 11:34:27 PM

Nice.
Is there something similar but not a widget - standalone application? Portable app is preferable.

By Niefer, # Jun 7, 2007 9:35:06 AM

Nice! Could be very useful.

By vasandack, # Jun 4, 2007 11:05:52 PM

oh yeah, that would be cool!

By farant, # Jun 3, 2007 8:46:34 PM

Can you add saving last selected language for translate?

By SailorMax, # Jun 1, 2007 3:22:54 PM

Maybe you should make something where you can input symbols like accentmarks or the Spanish n. Thanks. Otherwise great widget.

By bigvic22393, # May 31, 2007 6:49:33 AM

Pretty cool, my only gripe is that I have to press tab Twice to get to the "translate"-button, I wish it had tab priority over the output-textarea (or were placed between the textareas...)

By kiwibird, # May 28, 2007 11:31:33 AM

Thanx for the update.

By Darken, # May 28, 2007 1:09:05 AM

Fixed everyone!

Thanks for letting me know about the issue. Please continue to let me know if you ever encounter any other problems.

By kyleabaker, # May 26, 2007 0:36:03 AM

Hey all, mike sent me a pm about the error and I tested it for myself. It seems that they have updated their source code a bit within the past couple days. I'm working on a fix and it should be up in about a day or less. Thanks for letting me know!

By kyleabaker, # May 25, 2007 8:44:25 PM