•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  • Using this manual
  • Typographical conventions
  • Examples of syntax descriptions
  • OpenEdge messages
•  Preparing Your Application for Translation
  • Advantages of planning ahead
  •  4GL considerations
    • Defining text as untranslatable
    • Defining alignment and space
    • Defining accelerator keys
    • Using default buttons
  •  Screen layout considerations
    • Explicitly sizing and positioning widgets
    • Planning for text expansion
    • Creating adjustable text on rectangles
    • Length and width of text phrases
    • Creating message statements
    • Adjusting database field justification
  • Where to go for more information
•  Overview
  • Overview of the translation process
  • Tasks for the project manager
  • Tasks for the translator
•  Getting Started
  • Organizing a directory structure for the source code
  • Setting the PROPATH
  • Creating and storing environment (.ini) files
  • Starting the Translation Manager
  • Connecting to the application databases
•  Managing Projects
  • What is a project?
  • Determining the number of projects to create for an application
  • Creating a project
  • Opening a project
  • Selecting the current project
  • Closing a project
  •  Selecting source procedures
    • Adding files to the procedures list
    • Removing files from the procedures list
    • Viewing and editing a file in the procedures list
•  Preparing Data for Translation
  • Extracting text phrases from source procedures
  •  Specifying filters
    • Exporting and importing filters
  • Loading text phrases into the project database
  • Generating resource procedures
  •  Working on subsequent iterations of a project
    • Procedure subsets and supersets
    • Using procedure subsets
  • Preparing text from a character application
  •  Using third-party tools
    • Exporting data strings
    • Importing data strings
•  Adding Glossaries
  • Creating a glossary
  • Importing a glossary
  • Exporting a glossary
  • Tracking glossary entries
•  Preparing a Kit
  • What is a kit?
  • Building a kit
  • Deleting a kit
  • Pretranslation
  • Changing a kit’s source language
  • Sending a kit to the translator
•  Incorporating a Translated Kit into the Project
  • Receiving the kit from the translator
  • Consolidating the translated kit into the project database
  •  Compiling the source code with the translated phrases
    • Text segment expansion
  •  Running the compiled code in a target language
    • Running code from the command line
•  Updating a Project
  • Printing a statistics report
  •  Editing translations and glossary entries
    • Browsing through the tab folders
    • Sorting rows and ordering columns
    • Inserting and deleting rows
    • Cutting, copying, and pasting text
  • Scanning for changed source files
•  Tutorial
  • Preparing to use this tutorial
  • Creating a new Translation Manager project
  • The Procedures folder: adding files
  •  The Data tab folder
    • Extracting text phrases
    • Specifying filters
    • Loading text phrases
    • Creating resource procedures
  • The Glossary folder
  •  The Kits folder
    • Creating a kit
    • Creating a zip file
  • Installing a zip file and consolidating a kit received from the translator
  • Compiling source code with the translated phrases
•  Troubleshooting
  • Why can’t I start the Translation Manager?
  • Why do I receive error messages when I try to extract text phrases?
  • Why do I receive a “cannot find a file” error message?
  • Why do I receive an “open database table is full” error message when creating a kit?
  • How do I include the text phrases in SmartObjects?
  • Why can’t the tool display resource procedures?
  • Why does the Visual Translator tool display the text phrases in an undesired font in the resource procedures?
  • How do I avoid common errors and warnings in the Compiler’s log file?
  • Why do I receive error messages at run time?
•  Translation Manager Interface Reference
  •  Tab folders
    • Procedures tab folder
    • Data tab folder
    • Glossary tab folder
    • Kits tab folder
    • Statistics tab folder
  • Menu bar
  • Toolbar