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Appendix D
Translation Support Utility
The Translation Support Utility is utility software that runs on Windows
95/98/Me/2000/Xp and Windows NT Ver.4. The Translation Support Utility was
developed to help in translating a language to another supported language.
Currently, translation for label contents in NTST can only be performed manually
by opening and editing individual visible string contents in NTST, before down-
loading applications to a different language PT.
Therefore, the purpose of this utility is to provide a translation support utility that
enables you to load the memory map image file (.MMI) for the source language
and be able to translate the new string contents of the application and generate
independent memory map files (.MMI) for the specified target language. The
string data can be exported to Microsoft Excel files and from there you can edit/
change the string data outside the Translation Support Utility. You can also im-
port the string data in Microsoft Excel format to Translation Support Utility.
Installing the NT Translation Support Utility
The basic installation method is the same as that for the NT Transfer Utility. Refer
to Installing the NT Transfer Utility in Appendix C.
Setup.exe for NT Translation Support Utility is in the \Translation Support Util-
ity\disk1 folder in the Support Tool CD-ROM. By double-clicking the Setup.exe
icon, you can start the installation program. Follow the instructions on the setup
screen to install the NT Translation Support Utility.
Flow of Operations
An NTST application needs to be saved in MMI format before it can be used in
Translation Support Utility.
(1) Load MMI files using [File] – [Open].
(2) Use [Translation] – [New] to create a new language column. More than one
target languages may be created.
(3) Strings in target language text are translated using the translation editor win-
dow.
Select the cell in the target language in which the source text is to be trans-
lated. The source text is displayed in the upper pane of the editor translation
window. You can input the translated text in the lower pane and confirm by
clicking the
button.
(4) Repeat the steps for each of the strings to be translated.
(5) Select [Translation] – [Delete] operation if you wish to remove any of the tar-
get languages.
(6) Use [File] – [Generate MMI] to save all the languages to their respective MMI
files.
(7) If you wish to perform the translation using an Excel sheet rather than in the
utility itself, use the Export function in [Translation] – [Export] to export the
strings to .XLS format.
