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- Translate Version 1.11
- Copyright (c) 1997 David Haupert
- email: dhaupert@ddhsoftware.com
-
- Note: Translate is released as shareware and must be registered for
- continued use. The author assumes no responsibility for damages caused by
- this program. Make sure to back up (hotsync) your data before installing
- the program.
-
-
- This is the UNREGISTERED shareware version of Translate 1.11 for the Pilot.
-
- You are free to use this program for up to 30 days in order to
- evaluate it. If you continue to use it beyond 30 days, you must
- register it. For registration information, please see the registration
- section below or visit the web page:
- http://www.ddhsoftware.com
-
- ----------------------------- Files --------------------------------------
-
- TRANS.PRC - The Program that does the actual translating between languages.
- SPANISH.PDB - The English to Spanish Database file.
- SPANISH2.PDB - A larger version of the English to Spanish Database file.
- README.TXT - This file.
- ORDER.TXT - An order form to purchase other DDH Products.
-
- -------------------------- Installation ----------------------------------
-
- First, make sure you have enought free space on your pilot. To do so, run
- the Memory application on the pilot. If you do not have at least 112K
- free you cannot install either database. To install the large database and
- the translate application, you must have at least 204K free. If you don't
- have enough for this, you will either have to choose to delete apps from the
- same Memory application, or choose to not install this program until you have
- that amount of free memory.
-
- To install Translate onto your Pilot, run the INSTAPP.EXE program which resides
- in the same directory as the Pilot Desktop software. This program will allow
- you to specify that a .PRC file should be downloaded to the Pilot during the
- next hotsync. Choose to download both the TRANS.PRC and the SPANISH.PDB or
- SPANISH2.PDB to your pilot. Please be aware that this PDB file is huge
- relative to many of the programs you may have installed and it therefore
- takes longer to install. In addition, if the backup checkbox is set in the
- preferences portion of the Translate application, this PDB file will be
- backed up each time HotSync is run, and this too will take some time. See
- later on in this file for more details on this setting.
-
-
- ----------------------- Instructions For Use ------------------------------
- --Selecting a Language
- If you have more than one language installed, then running the Translate
- application will bring up a language selection screen. From here you can
- choose which language you would like to translate to/from. To do this, touch
- the language in the list box that you would like to use, and press the OK
- button. If there are no languages loaded into the pilot, you will not be
- able to get past this screen.
-
- --The Main Screen
- The screen contains two fields, the English Word and the Spanish Word. There
- are also buttons: <<, <, To [Language], >, and >>, under the English word, and
- buttons: <<, <, To English, >, and >>, under the Spanish word. In addition,
- there are Edit Entry and Add Entry buttons along the bottom of the screen,
- and New Word and New Phrase buttons along the top of the screen.
-
- --English To Spanish word
- To translate from English to the Spanish word, touch the English field
- with the stylus and then write your word in the graffiti area. When you are
- finished writing the word to translate, press the 'To [Language]'
- button. The result should show in the Spanish word's field below.
-
- --Spanish word To English
- To translate from a Spanish word to English, touch the Spanish word field
- with the stylus and then write your word in the graffiti area. When you are
- finished writing the word to translate, press the 'To English' button. The
- result should show in the English field above.
-
- The program will always attempt to find the exact word you entered. If it
- finds the word you will see the word 'Found!' in the middle area of the
- screen. If it cannot find the word you entered, it will search for the word
- as the start of another word. If finds it this way the screen will show
- 'Found within word!', and the closest word in the language you enter will be
- shown over the field you entered text on. If it still cannot find the word,
- it will search for the closest match of the word, and show 'Closest match!',
- and show the word's closest match and it's translation.
-
- --Additional Buttons
- The << and >> buttons will "rewind" and "fast forward" to the first or
- last word in that list, respectively. If you press << under the English
- word you will get the first word in the English list, and it's equivalent
- Spanish word also. If you were to press >> under the Spanish word,
- you would get the last Spanish word in the list, and it's associated
- English word also.
-
- The < and > buttons will go back or forward one entry in the list,
- respectively. If after translating a word, you were to press > under the
- English word, you would get the next English word and it's equivalent
- Spanish word.
-
- --Edit Entry Button
- This button brings up the edit screen which allows you to edit the current
- entry. There is also a choice to delete the current entry. To edit the
- entry, just change the fields you desire changed, and press the save button.
- If you change your mind about editing the words, press the Cancel button, to
- return to the main screen.
-
- --Add Entry Button
- This button brings up the Add Entry screen which allows you to add a new
- entry. To add an entry, just complete the fields you desire to add, and
- press the save button. If you change your mind about adding the words,
- press the Cancel button, to return to the main screen.
-
- --New Word Button
- This button blanks out both fields to allow you to enter a new word to
- translate.
-
- --New Phrase Button
- This button takes you to the phrase translation screen, where you can
- write sentences and have them translated for you.
-
-
- --The Translate Phrase Screen
- The screen contains two multi-line fields, the English Phrase and the
- Spanish Phrase. There are also buttons: To [Language], and To English.
- In addition, there are New Word and New Phrase buttons along the top of the
- screen.
-
-
- --English Phrase To Spanish phrase
- To translate from English to the Spanish language, touch the English field
- with the stylus and then write your sentence in the graffiti area. When
- you are finished writing the sentence to translate, press the 'To
- [Language]' button. The result should show in the Spanish phrase's field
- below.
-
- --Spanish word To English
- To translate a Spanish phrase to English, touch the Spanish phrase field
- with the stylus and then write your sentence in the graffiti area. When
- you are finished writing the sentence to translate, press the 'To
- English' button. The result should show in the English field above.
-
- NOTE: The Phrase translation used in the program does not make any attempts
- at being grammatically correct. Rather, it works by searching for an exact
- match for each word. If it does not find an exact match, it leaves the word
- in the original language and puts square-brackets [] around the word. While
- very few sentences will yield a perfect translation, this feature can still
- be quite useful for getting the 'jist' of a sentence quickly.
-
- --New Word Button
- This button brings you back to the word translation screen where you
- can enter a new word to translate, or add and edit entries.
-
- --New Phrase Button
- This button blanks out both fields for you to start writing a new
- phrase to translate.
-
-
- --Choose Language
- From the File pull down menu, you can bring up the Choose Language choice,
- which will allow you to switch to a different language, as well as delete an
- individual language database. This screen contains a list of languages
- available and OK button. To switch languages, touch the language of your
- choice with the stylus and press the OK button. To delete a language, touch
- the language of your choice with the stylus, and press the Menu silkscreen
- button to bring down the menu. Select Delete Language from the File
- drop-down menu and answer yes to the confirmation screen. The language will
- be deleted from the list.
-
- NOTE: The shareware demo version only functions with the 2 Spanish databases
- distributed with it.
-
- --Preferences
- From the File pull down menu, you can bring up the Preferences choice,
- which will allow you to toggle the HotSync backup setting for whichever
- language database is currently in use. When The Backup Database checkbox is
- checked, the entire database is backed up on the next HotSync. If the
- checkbox is not checked, the database will not be backed up. Since the
- databases are rather large, the HotSync can take a long time if it has to
- back up these languages every time. So until a conduit is written, this
- measure serves to allow the user to select when the databases will be backed
- up. You should only set this checkbox after making serious changes to the
- database. After selecting your choice, press the OK button at the bottom of
- the screen.
-
-
- --Cut, Copy, and Paste
- From the pull down menus, you can cut, copy, or paste to and from either word
- on the screen, and bring/take either word into/from another application (such
- as the memopad application).
-
-
- -------------------------------- Menus -------------------------------------
-
- File -- contains Choose Language and preferences choices.
-
- Edit -- contains cut, copy, and paste choices as well as a choice to bring up
- the onscreen keyboard, as an alternative to entering graffiti.
-
- About -- Gives information about the program.
- ---------------------------- Registration ----------------------------------
-
- The registered version of the program adds these features:
- - Runs without the splash screens
- - Does not timeout
- - Support for many additional languages including:
-
-
- Language #words #bytes in Pilot Price in US $
- ------------------------------------------------------------------
- Danish 3787 73K $12
- Dutch 8633 254K $12
- Esperanto 8665 172K $12
- Finnish 3228 63K $12
- French 7135 158K $12
- German 9335 255K $12
- Hungarian 1200 24K $12
- Icelandic 1106 22K $12
- Indonesian 1155 23K $12
- Italian/Italian2 2275/3526 27K/81K $12
- Japanese/Japanese2* 1806/9752 35K/186K $12
- Latin 745 15K $12
- Mandarin 1491 34K $12
- Norwegian 1936 37K $12
- Portuguese 2353 48K $12
- Spanish/Spanish2 3666/8083 82K/175K $12
-
- * - The Japanese database contains 1806 words, and is also shipped with
- a public domain database EDICT_S, an EDICT_S.PDB file containing
- 9752 Words, and a tool to convert the EDICT_S file into the
- EDICT_S.PDB file with various user defined size options.
-
- Note: The size does not include the ~27k Translate program that is
- necessary to access any of the files.
-
- There may be some special deals on multiple languages going-
- see the web page for details:
- http://www.ddhsoftware.com
- or email:
- sales@ddhsoftware.com
-
- To register go to: http://www.ddhsoftware.com
- and register via the online forms using either your VISA or MASTERCARD
- or your First Virtual account.
-
- For information on getting a First Virtual account go to:
- http://www.fv.com
-
- Or read the file ORDER.TXT included with this file.
-
- Or send Check or Money order (US Only) to:
- David Haupert
- PO Box 970971
- Boca Raton, Fl 33497-0971 USA
-
- Please include an email address to send the files to (preferably), or a
- return address to send a 3.5" HD disk to. Note that free updates will
- only be sent via email.
-
-
- --------------------------- Release History ------------------------------
- 7/22/97 - V1.11 - Bug Fixes: Fixed an occasional problem with adding and
- editing entries corrupting the indexing. Also fixed it so that switching
- back and forth between Translate and other applications would remember what
- word was currently on-screen. Minor Revision.
-
- 7/04/97 - V1.10 - New Features: Compression, Phrase translation, New Word and
- new phrase. Fixes 1.0 and Mac problems. Major revision.
-
- 5/20/97 - V1.00 - Created release for the Pilot Plus Pack. Not released to
- the public.
-
- 5/12/97 - V0.99 - Experimental version to fix HotSync 1.0 and Macintosh
- problems. Never released to the public.
-
- 4/14/97 - V0.98 - Discovered that the language names were not showing
- up on the new PalmPilots. Fixed problem with that.
-
- 4/30/97 - V0.97 - Added stuff to show new languages available
-
- 4/04/97 - V0.96 - Fixed problem with HotSync version 1.1 and 1.0 not
- recognizing SPANISH.PDB file. HotSync 1.1 now works fine, and V 1.0 loads
- but then crashes due to a problem with > 32K sizes in Hotsync 1.0. Also
- fixed problem of program going into endless loop if there is no database
- loaded.
-
- 3/28/97 - V0.95 - First release to the public
-