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Do you guys know a (small, portable, quick and simple) software specifically aimed at programmers for making the creation, handling and maintaining of localization text files easier?

Currently I'm doing all this with plain text files which isn't easy to handle for the translator and for me to maintain. However, I don't really want to program it myself because I know a link to such a tool was already posted 1-2 years ago. Unfortunately I don't know what to search for (here on the forum or the www).

Do you have some recommendations?

...You can give the translation helper that I made a try:

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... +Translate

I have in fact improved it a little bit as it is going to be bundled with another app in the near future, so if you think the original will do the job, I'll make the improved one available.

- Gettext + Poedit
- XLIFF
- The Translate Toolkit can convert between various different translation formats (such as Gettext PO formats, XLIFF, OpenOffice.org, and Mozilla formats).

- http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Software_localization

@IdeasVacuum
Thanks, but I would need something more powerful with support for categories, display of text strings that need to be updated etc.

Some bugs & ideas:
- Needless scrollbar on the right?!
- Not possible to disable always on top of the window
- The help video is opened every time I start the program, why not make it optional by clicking on help somewhere?
- The file type option of OpenFileRequester() displays garbage after "*.txt"
- Unicode doesn't work?
- Text field of StringGadget() isn't focused when trying to edit something


@Danilo
Thanks, this looks good! I'm going to check them out now.

c4s wrote:@Danilo
Thanks, this looks good! I'm going to check them out now.

More tools (free & proprietary software) are listed at Wikipedia - Computer-assisted translation

Virtaal and maybe Poedit seem to be nice.

However, I just noticed that it wouldn't be that good if those user wanting to translate my program first have to download and install another 15 MB (for Virtaal) software. I hoped for a max. 1 MB, portable tool.

Some bugs & ideas:
- Needless scrollbar on the right?!
- Not possible to disable always on top of the window
- The help video is opened every time I start the program, why not make it optional by clicking on help somewhere?
- The file type option of OpenFileRequester() displays garbage after "*.txt"
- Unicode doesn't work?
- Text field of StringGadget() isn't focused when trying to edit something

Hi c4s, did you compile the source code? If so, that might be where the Unicode issue/garbage is from - In Compiler Options, select "Create Unicode executable" and in the Library Subsystem field enter "UserlibUnicodeThreadsafe", the PureRESIZE library is used. This app is in use on a regular basis in three different countries for translating English/Dutch/German/Chinese, has always worked for them.

Your other comments are mostly about your preferences and it is easy to modify the source to make it work the way you wish.

@IdeasVacuum
No, I did not compile the source code. I just wanted to give you some hints to improve it for those who just want the executable.