Translate Version 1.24 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 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. 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. At any time during this search, the cancel button can be pressed to abort the search. --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. --Export Button Pressing this button will export the current entry to the Flash! application. This button will only show on the screen if you have both enabled Flash! exporting in the Preferences section, and you have the Flash! program installed on your PalmPilot. For more information, see the section on Preferences below. --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. During a translation, a cancel button appears, and can be pressed to abort the search process. --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. The next option allows one to setup the exporting of entries to the Flash! application. From the Flash! author Jaime Quinn (jquinn@occs.cs.oberlin.edu): Flash! is a personal trainer for your mind, based on the concept of flash cards. Its "learning" mode conforms to the latest learning research by quizzing you on a personal schedule that adapts to the difficulty you have learning each individual fact; in "quiz" mode you can evaluate your progress. Supports full on-pilot editing capabilities and import from several formats. Quiz yourself on the honor system or using multiple choice. 50% of income from Flash! goes to charity. You can download a trial version of flash by going to: http://www.oberlin.edu/~jquinn/flash.html The Translate program can export word entries to the Flash! program in two different ways, selectable via the preferences. --The Manual export mode will only export an entry if you press the Export button on the main screen. --The Automatic export mode will automatically export any words you look up that have an exact match. Words within words, or Closest match finds will not automatically export as they may not have been the words you were trying to learn. You can always override this and export manually by pressing the Export button. --The None mode will turn off exporting altogether. --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 ------------------------------ 04/08/98 - V1.24 - Major revision. Fixed several major bugs including one that corrupted the indexing on some new entries when they are added. Also, added support for Flash! and changed the language selection screen to require fewer pen-strokes. 02/03/98 - V1.16 - Minor Revision. Fixed bug with new word lookups routine that caused foreign-to-english lookups to not find the exact match, even though it may have existed. Added a Cancel button to the word and phrase search routines. Cut/Copy/Paste functions now work from the New/Edit Entry screens. 10/30/97 - V1.12 - Minor Revision. Word lookups are now MUCH faster when there is no exact match for the word. 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