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[MrAksel]

Hello guys and girls, i have been working on a project for some weeks now and its starting to take shape.
What it is ment to do is:

The translator:

It is a XML based translator that reads a language file from your harddrive or a internet location, the language file can have 3 extensions : .xml, .lng (xml but different extension), .lngX (new saving system that don't use XML with encryption enabled)

You can actually have any file extension but the 3 mentioned is the default

To use this DLL do this:

In your solution explorer select 'View all files', then right click on the references and press add reference





Then guide yourself to the 'browse' tab and find the Translator.dll file, press ok and then it is added.

Now in your code paste this to make a new translator instance:

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Dim translator As New Translator.Translator
translator.LoadLngFile("the languge file, remember the extensions")
Dim result As String translator.Translate("word").Result

The file compiler:

This is the tool used to create the language files, it takes quite some time to write down an entire language so enter the words you like.



Here is the DLL:

Translator.zip

And here is the file creator tool:

TranslationFile Compiler.zip

Please report any bugs and other stuff

[Codex]

Nice cooll; but,

how do you select/choose what language to translate from and to using the code you gave ?

- cxv

[MrAksel]

Ill show you an example of a XML file made by the compiler:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<words mainLanguage="English" targetLanguage="Norwegian">
	<word>
		<key>Hello</key>
		<translation>Hei</translation>
	</word>

	<word>
		<key>Birthday</key>
		<translation>Bursdag</translation>
	</word>

	<word>
		<key>Sweden</key>
		<translation>Sverige</translation>
	</word>

	<word>
		<key>Norway</key>
		<translation>Norge</translation>
	</word>

</words>

The compiler have a mainLanguage setting and a targetLanguage setting

When you use this code:

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translator.LoadLngFile("file")

It loads the file into the translator and when you use this function:

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translator.Translate("Hello")

It will return 'Hei' because that is the translation in the file you loaded. Did you understand?

[Codex]

oh ok lol, i didn't know.

[Lewis]

This would actualy work for coding languages aswell..

[code it]

what happens if you don't download the dll?