w0lf's Translator - Google Translate powered app

[mobilecriss]

Wolf's Translator uses the Google Translate engine to provide translations.
It's a small program I wrote, because I find it useful to be able to translate From/To so many languages at any time and it's much easier to use on the mobile phone than the web-based version of Google Translate.

In order to run the program, .Net Compact Framework 3.5 has to be installed on the device. (you can download it from here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3821449-3c6b-42f1-9fd9-0041345b3385&displaylang=en))
Of course, you also need an active Internet Connection.

Currently, the following languages are supported by Google Translate:
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Croatian
- Czezh
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese

Please note that the translations are not always very accurate, but if you have a text in a different language you don't know, it gives you a good idea about what it means in most of the cases.

A nice feature of Google Translate (also present in the application) is the Language Auto Detect feature: you have a text written in I don't know what language, I tell it to translate to English, for example, and it not only translates it, but also shows the language of the source text (try this by checking the Autodetect FROM Language check box).

A feature that right now is missing, but I'm planning to include in a future version is being allowed to save the favourite language pair, so when you open the program it will automatically select your favourite languages.

This program has been tested so far on HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro (VGA) and HTC P3600(Trinity) (QVGA).

Screenshot:
http://i36.tinypic.com/112h7iw.jpg

Edited: 08.12.2008:

Version 1.1 available at http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com/translator

What's new in version 1.1:


- Fixed the "Autodetect" label bug

- Fixed character encoding bug (some characters caused the program to throw an exception)

- Moved the "Cancel" menu item over the "Translate" menu item when processing a request

- "Set Default Languages" - saves the current language combination and restores it when application starts

- "Configure Language Set" - if you only want to use 3 or 4 languages yo may select a subset of the languages supported by the application to be shown in the interface

- Copy/Paste feature

- CAB file for easier installation



Edited: 21.04.2009:

Version 1.2 available at http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com

What's new in version 1.2:

- Added the Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician languages, because they are now supported by Google Translate. (see this link (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/translate-between-41-languages-with.html)). Please note that to access these languages you may have to change your current language set (menu: Options -> Configure Language Set).

[mobilecriss]

I've uploaded the attachment.

Unzip, copy file to phone and run it.

[wapvirus]

Thanks for this app working fine on my prophet i have only tested through wifi and active sync Chinese brought up some strange boxes (font not installed i think ) checked polish and Russian, German they seem to work fine one again thanks

[larbke666]

Dutch??? it's supported by google translator, but not on the list?

[mobilecriss]

Dutch??? it's supported by google translator, but not on the list?

I'm sorry; I forgot to write it in the list. Of course it's supported by Google Translator, and it's supported in this program as well.

[bluemetalaxe]

hey man what a wonderfull simple and fast application. i' very impressed! A musthave on a PPC.

just two small bugs:
-the autodetect doesen't work, i always start with english-romanian
-there is a black line missing above the From box.

and some thoughts:
Can you make it a little more Eyecandy and maybe Fingerfriendly and the default application text translatable? you know, Sex sells !

Again: Fantastic and a very fast online Translation

[princegoro]

Awesome work dude,it´s simple yet genius:cool:

[bluemetalaxe]

oh i'm sorry, i missunderstood the autodetect feature, so that's no bug sorry.

[mconigs78]

I like it. Real easy to use. Is there any way to make it so I can select it from my programs list?

[mconigs78]

Im sorry I figured it out already. My active sync wasnt working correctly. Thanks for the app.

[mainsail]

Works perfect for me (MIO A701 WWE 6.1). Default input/ouput languages in settings could be useful.. :D

Thanx man

Frank

[garsim]

it's a fantastic app!!
thank you!

[mobilecriss]

hey man what a wonderfull simple and fast application. i' very impressed! A musthave on a PPC.

just two small bugs:
-the autodetect doesen't work, i always start with english-romanian
-there is a black line missing above the From box.

and some thoughts:
Can you make it a little more Eyecandy and maybe Fingerfriendly and the default application text translatable? you know, Sex sells !

Again: Fantastic and a very fast online Translation

Thank you very much for your replies; I'm glad to see you enjoy the app.
Bluemetalaxe, thank you for the tips; the next time I find some spare time for programming, I'll surely take into consideration your advice. :)

[mainsail]

Autodetect works. I input some spanish text and app traslate to language i want. Autodetect is marked and app get correct language in input. Sometimes appear portuguese because some words are similars..

F

[munnna73]

thanx for sharing nice app. works fine

[nir36]

this is BRILLIANT!
thank you so much.

[hanackin]

wahoo!! this is a marvelous idea!!! :D

Thanks a lot guys!;)

[MACkjam]

I like it. Real easy to use. Is there any way to make it so I can select it from my programs list?

Just use Total Commander file exlorer app (freeware) and create shortcut.

[nir36]

weird. now i get an error


System.net.webexception: an error message cannot be displayed
because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found --->
system.net.sockets.socketexception: an error message cannot be displayed
because an optional resource assembly containing it cannt be found at
system.net.dns.resolveinternal() at system.net.dns.gethostentry()
at system.net.servicepoint.resolve().........

strange.

[mobilecriss]

weird. now i get an error


System.net.webexception: an error message cannot be displayed
because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found --->
system.net.sockets.socketexception: an error message cannot be displayed
because an optional resource assembly containing it cannt be found at
system.net.dns.resolveinternal() at system.net.dns.gethostentry()
at system.net.servicepoint.resolve().........

strange.

Hello!

Please make sure your phone succesfully connects to the Internet and then try again. I'll keep testing the application and if I get this behaviour, I'll issue a new version with this thing fixed.

Thank you!

[dewydewy]

works flawlessly on my kaiser. here are some screenshots:

Thanks a bunch~

http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=129041&stc=1&d=1226414496http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=129042&stc=1&d=1226414496

[S.V.I]

WOW!! WOW!! WOW!!
I assume it requires data connection.
Would be nice if the database would be on storage card... haven't tried it yet, but bookmarked the page!
I can't wait! there a re a few people who do not speak english at work. I can't wait to try it!!!:D

[Iceman692]

I was just thinking about finding an app like this last night!

[fiffy]

Hi,

What a great app, I like it alot!

How about copy/paste in the next version?
It would be nice to be able to copy a text from a webpage and paste it in your program to translate it

[Alkhal]

This is freaking awesome!! A little more touch up graphic-wise would be nice but that is minor. Thank you for sharing this... Definitely a must have for any one... :D

[mreaglejr]

haa!! this is so cool! thanks thanks thanks <3
mm.. i never understood though, why do we need netcf for certain apps? i mean it's so big :O is there a way to use it without it? :angel face:

[fredcatsmommy]

can't wait to try. thanks for sharing!!

[hanackin]

Thanks a lot for this great app man!!!!!:D

[dav3ywrx]

Fantastic app, well done :)

[Keland44]

nice app i like the idea it would be great if it could translate from a picture but then again how would that be possible but i was just thinkin about this
great app keep up the good work

[freewind29]

great tool, thank you!

[orlandojumpoff]

works flawlessly on my kaiser. here are some screenshots:

Thanks a bunch~

[IMG]http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=129042&stc=1&d=1226414496

ha just a note.. the Japanese translation there says, "excuse me, this/that is the library" instead of asking where... maybe if you put a question mark it would have given the correct translation of raiburari/toshyokan wa doko desu ka? Oh, and the word for library in Japanese is toshyokan.. raiburari is more foreign.

[nurkamol]

Thanks!!! Great, Nice & Good job!!!:)

[nir36]

apparently it was a connection problem. it works GREAT on my polaris. very fast.

[ekksman]

i have wanted something like this for a long while now, thank you for a great app

[shadowmike]

this does not work on my windows mobile standard 6.1 3.5.net

this would be a great app for me to use at work as alot of my customers speak other languages.

[huynhc]

GREAT program... many thanks!

[orlandojumpoff]

Hey nice program... i got it working, but when i try to look up japanese translations, it just shows a bunch of little boxes... i guess this is a font issue. i installed japanese fonts under windows/font, which is sufficient to view web pages in japanese, but maybe your little app uses some other method? If you know how to resolve this, please let me know, thank you.

[g77]

Congratilations for this great work, very simple yet usefull app!:)
Keep your good working!

[nkawtg]

Looks like a great strart, anyway to get it in a cab?

[vigin]

easy to use and also great deal of fun, too.
thanks :)

[snark_be]

Great app.

Needs a little tweaks on the UI. For instance, the language names should not be uppercarse. And it'd be nice if the TO language was remembered, as I do not care personnally too much about Romanian (though I understand you do ;) ).

[dewydewy]

ha just a note.. the Japanese translation there says, "excuse me, this/that is the library" instead of asking where... maybe if you put a question mark it would have given the correct translation of raiburari/toshyokan wa doko desu ka? Oh, and the word for library in Japanese is toshyokan.. raiburari is more foreign.



lol, Thanks for pointing me out about the grammar mistake and correct usage of Japanese Translation! I tried that again with a tiny question mark. Here is what I got :D:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=129132&stc=1&d=1226442662


p.s.

Check out your PM box to see if you have my reply! :)

[sergitec]

This software is great and i test in windows Xp and it work´s to! :)

[shadowmike]

This software is great and i test in windows Xp and it work´s to! :)

wow it does work on the computer. 2 uses. well 1 for me. hopefully a smartphone version can be made.

[sexuuh!]

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YOu and the guy on that forum are the same criss?:D because else i would say that guy is stealing your work^^ ( ipmart?)

[orlandojumpoff]

lol, Thanks for pointing me out about the grammar mistake and correct usage of Japanese Translation! I tried that again with a tiny question mark. Here is what I got :D:


haha, there ya go... that's more like it, it even gave the more common word for library. too bad this little app can't put it in "romaji" form so if you didn't know how to read the japanese characters you could still sound it out.

[v3patel]

Try this From = english to = Hindi and with caps lock on type all special chars from 1 to 0 asnd clikc on translate. I get some error "unrecgnized escape character: u at wolftranslator.json.jsonreader.Fromescape().....

ALso when to = Hindi it translate ok but in transalation window all I see is sqare boxes. if i copy and paste translated text into notepad, excel or email also bring square box as well.

But if I use from my desktop (on desktop not on PPC) i see square boxs but when paste in email or word it shows actual translated text.

HOpe you can fix it in version.

[mobilecriss]

Hello,

@shadowmike:
I think there's something wrong with .NET CF 3.5 on your phone. Perhaps you should try reinstalling it or just test how other .Net applications behave.

@sexuuhy!: yes, it's me

For all others: thank you very much for your advices and for pointing out problems regarding this little app.

When I find some more spare time:
- I will look more into the font issue
- I will make the startup languages configurable
- I will try to make the application more "finger friendly"
- I'll test the behavior when using special characters (the bug mentioned by v3patel)

[nogs]

Cool app, Very usefull for me..... Saves going to Babel :)

Look forward to an update :)

Oo.... Can i mention a few idea's pls

An option to reverse translation with one click - makes it easier to see if there will be errors in your translation.
A copy button - one click and it copies all the translated text to clipboard.
Have a look at some online translators for idea's

Maybe an option to use Yahoo translation too ?

Thanks again for this !!

Nogs

[tom108]

Great App!

works flawless. :)

[bhenness]

just two small bugs:
-there is a black line missing above the From box.


You need to decrease the height of the "Autodetect" checkbox, or Send it behind the "From" dropdown. It is covering the top of the "From" combobox, which hides the black line

[kizer8]

Where do I get the language fonts (Arabic, Chinese, etc) and where do I put them? I also only squares when converting to Arabic.

Thanks,
Kizer

[snark_be]

It would be nice to be able to select which languages to display in the dropdown lists. I only use 3 or 4 target languages but still have to browse through the complete list...

[kizer8]

Where do I get the language fonts (Arabic, Chinese, etc) and where do I put them? I also only squares when converting to Arabic.

Thanks,
Kizer

Does anybody know where I can get the Arabic font for my Verizon XV6800 with a stock English rom. I too only get boxes when I try to translate from English to Arabic.

Thanks,
Kizer

[shadowmike]

Hello,

@shadowmike:
I think there's something wrong with .NET CF 3.5 on your phone. Perhaps you should try reinstalling it or just test how other .Net applications behave.



i have no problem with other apps except for wshen they are not programed with standard support.

i reinstalled .net and still same error.

.net standard may be different with differnt coding then .net pro...

[RxenDrav]

Does anybody know where I can get the Arabic font for my Verizon XV6800 with a stock English rom. I too only get boxes when I try to translate from English to Arabic.

Thanks,
Kizer

try to install Arabizer/MobiDiv ... just type and search it, u will smile after install that....:D...

[RxenDrav]

i just wondering if this application will be more fantastic w/o using connection from internet. will to have BIG data base is it?...:rolleyes:

[jwy2k2]

Thank you for this ap. I think the addition of the ability to "cut and paste" would improve the functionality by an order of magnitude.

[xplode]

very handy app thanks a lot mobilecriss

[sdlopez83]

Can someone please cab this up? Thank you

[snark_be]

I made a CAB for your convenience but it would be preferable that w0lf does it himself, especially for next releases :) .

[sdlopez83]

Your awsome bro thanks

[kizer8]

try to install Arabizer/MobiDiv ... just type and search it, u will smile after install that....:D...

Thanks for the help, but I couldn't get either to work with my Verizon XV6800.

Thanks,
Kizer

[JeRoMe_aKa_JaY]

works great !!
thx

[dzign-it]

SUGGESTION

Is it possible to SAVE the translations that you do...so next time if you want to translate the same sentance, you do not have to connect to the internet , so kind of like a cache of previous translations that you have done?

It could be done like google suggest, when you start typing the sentance to be translated, it searched the cache and displays the rest of the sentance if a match is found? That way, its faster too!

[cejay]

Great app.. i use it alot when i need to translate eng-spanish..
altho mine keeps coming up with eng-romanian..

also the fonts on the app on my HTC 8525 are super small..
is there a way to increase the font size? im a bit
older and tiny fonts are REALLY hard for me to see..
thanks!
chris

[AthenaLod]

mobilecriss,

i'd really like to use your app, but never got it to work on my tilt, i knew i had netcf, but reinstalled just in case, but still got this error, i hope you can tell me how to fix it.

attached is a screenshot of the error i am getting (clearly i am connected to the internet while attempting to use the app)

thanks

[Bouloama]

http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com/translator

Fixed website url.. the one in the firstpost is incorrect.

[Giannis86]

wow this is awesome

i have an idea
how about making a very plain one to be used as a sip addon?
so in other words something that would allow you to type the text in english for example and when you click on ok it adds the text in your sms in lets say greek

i know you can copy paste but this would seem a bit more cool to have :D

[MaNIaCv1]

Very useful app.. Well done.

I second cejay's request for configurable fonts, can never find my specs when I need them. Also, can you add select all to cut and paste.

Thanks
MaNIaC

[sdlopez83]

Suggestions

Dont know if im bumping this... But can you include text this translation feature...

so..
-Texting Translation



Great app man i really appreciate this app

[rgelfand]

Though traslation is fairly accurate, I find that right to left charset is written left to right.

Can something done to print the answer right to left?

Can the same be done for entering the text?


Thanks in advance

[fallenangel408]

im having problems with it on my touch HD it shows translations in squares???? how do i fix that? thanks

[Zeno2]

It's ridiculous to apply and include political disputes in software! As this program does: w0lf's Translator v1.1

Go to page:
http://anonym.to/?http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
as you can see Hungarian language is included!

We know there were old political disputes between Romania and Hungary. But to omit deliberately Hungarian language only because Romania has disputes with Hungary (certain people) it's ridiculous.
But the romanian author of this program did deliberately omited the Hungarian language in his program.
Simply childish.
I'm too born in Romania too and proud to be a Romanian, but to include political disputes in my software is under my dignity.

Same rasistic policy is applied by Visicom Navigator GPS Ukraine 2008 v3.2.8. Where because Ukraine has disputes with Romania has choosen to apply same rasistic attitude in this GPS software: towns with majoritary romanian population are very poor representated (no streets, building numbers, and so on...). Small towns with majoritar ukrainian population are represented with complete street and building information.
I sent all this information to Romanian authorities: parliament, newspapers and foreign ministry.

IMHO no politics or political disputes should be present in software!

[APBilbo]

It's ridiculous to apply and include political disputes in software! As this program does: w0lf's Translator v1.1

Go to page:
http://anonym.to/?http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
as you can see Hungarian language is included!

We know there were old political disputes between Romania and Hungary. But to omit deliberately Hungarian language only because Romania has disputes with Hungary (certain people) it's ridiculous.
But the romanian author of this program did deliberately omited the Hungarian language in his program.
Simply childish.
I'm too born in Romania too and proud to be a Romanian, but to include political disputes in my software is under my dignity.

Same rasistic policy is applied by Visicom Navigator GPS Ukraine 2008 v3.2.8. Where because Ukraine has disputes with Romania has choosen to apply same rasistic attitude in this GPS software: towns with majoritary romanian population are very poor representated (no streets, building numbers, and so on...). Small towns with majoritar ukrainian population are represented with complete street and building information.
I sent all this information to Romanian authorities: parliament, newspapers and foreign ministry.

IMHO no politics or political disputes should be present in software!

AFAIK, the author of this app has never talked about politics or racism related to his software... In fact, you are the one beeing racist by taking for granted that he has not included Hungarian because he is from Romania. Why don't you just PM him and request to include Hungarian on a further release? May be he just forgot, or he has not ever been requested to include it. Racism is made out of prejudices, don't prejudge him ;).

About your last phrase, I agree that no politics or political disputes should ever exist. Neither in software or anywhere else... but hey, this is the world in wich we live...

[JimmyMcGee]

It's ridiculous to apply and include political disputes in software! As this program does: w0lf's Translator v1.1

Go to page:
http://anonym.to/?http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
as you can see Hungarian language is included!

We know there were old political disputes between Romania and Hungary. But to omit deliberately Hungarian language only because Romania has disputes with Hungary (certain people) it's ridiculous.
But the romanian author of this program did deliberately omited the Hungarian language in his program.
Simply childish.
I'm too born in Romania too and proud to be a Romanian, but to include political disputes in my software is under my dignity.

Same rasistic policy is applied by Visicom Navigator GPS Ukraine 2008 v3.2.8. Where because Ukraine has disputes with Romania has choosen to apply same rasistic attitude in this GPS software: towns with majoritary romanian population are very poor representated (no streets, building numbers, and so on...). Small towns with majoritar ukrainian population are represented with complete street and building information.
I sent all this information to Romanian authorities: parliament, newspapers and foreign ministry.

IMHO no politics or political disputes should be present in software!

You should follow your advise and not Speak about politics in software.

Honestly, your little rant makes you come off looking like this...
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4044/tinfoilhatxu9.jpg

This topic will get touchy fast, So Be good or it will be gone. Any flame or non-constructive responses will be dealt with, up to and including Bans.

[stylez]

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4044/tinfoilhatxu9.jpg

Lol you made me chuckle & chuckle some more :D

[oscahie]

Great simple & useful app, thank you :)

[Duffy9]

i have no problem with other apps except for wshen they are not programed with standard support.

i reinstalled .net and still same error.

.net standard may be different with differnt coding then .net pro...

I'm also getting the same notsupportedexception error you are receiving. I have uninstalled and reinstalled .net to both my storage card and on to the phone. Either way, as soon as I start w0lfTranslator I run into an error. Help please! The program was a spectacular idea!

[Duffy9]

Can anyone else tell me if they are running on Windows 6 Standard are able to use the translator without getting a notsupportedexception error? I read a couple threads on other developers writing software and finding that pro and standard handle things a little differently.

Thanks again!

[so-x]

This does not seem to work on smartphones running WM6, like HTC Cavalier or X02HT. HELP PLEASE. Somebody know how to fix this and get it to work?

[Psyberd]

You just need to add the language support in the case of the screen cap add Japanese. There free font sets that do this and usually if you install a SIP it will add full support. I believe Google's Droid Sans fall back font would do it Droid.cab (http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=support) it adds Chinese support to WWE I know which in my case is what I need. I believe it adds full Unicode set so should work for japanese also, if not do some searching for a japanese font.

[vboyz103]

You just need to add the language support in the case of the screen cap add Japanese. There free font sets that do this and usually if you install a SIP it will add full support. I believe Google's Droid Sans fall back font would do it Droid.cab (http://www.studiokuma.com/wm/?section=support) it adds Chinese support to WWE I know which in my case is what I need. I believe it adds full Unicode set so should work for japanese also, if not do some searching for a japanese font.

Thanks OP for posting and developing this software. If we can have an option to adjust the font size it'll be great. On my Diamond VGA the fonts appear rather small.

@Psy - Thanks man that works well for Chinese language now. Now I can go to China Town in San Francisco and I can order some chinese food. Most of the Chinese here don't speak English so this will come in handy.

[omgwiiso]

Thanks OP for posting and developing this software. If we can have an option to adjust the font size it'll be great. On my Diamond VGA the fonts appear rather small.

@Psy - Thanks man that works well for Chinese language now. Now I can go to China Town in San Francisco and I can order some chinese food. Most of the Chinese here don't speak English so this will come in handy.

i mus say chinese is hard to write. but easy to speak.
:)

[not4you]

saru'mina pentru program,
da unu la care nu te conectezi pe net nu sti?
sau ceva tehnic? poate eng-ro ro-eng

[ufoss]

thanks for aplication.

But i need Turkish language. Now supported by google but not in the prog list.
How can i add or use.

Thanks

[mobilecriss]

It's ridiculous to apply and include political disputes in software! As this program does: w0lf's Translator v1.1

Go to page:
http://anonym.to/?http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
as you can see Hungarian language is included!

We know there were old political disputes between Romania and Hungary. But to omit deliberately Hungarian language only because Romania has disputes with Hungary (certain people) it's ridiculous.
But the romanian author of this program did deliberately omited the Hungarian language in his program.
Simply childish.
I'm too born in Romania too and proud to be a Romanian, but to include political disputes in my software is under my dignity.

Same rasistic policy is applied by Visicom Navigator GPS Ukraine 2008 v3.2.8. Where because Ukraine has disputes with Romania has choosen to apply same rasistic attitude in this GPS software: towns with majoritary romanian population are very poor representated (no streets, building numbers, and so on...). Small towns with majoritar ukrainian population are represented with complete street and building information.
I sent all this information to Romanian authorities: parliament, newspapers and foreign ministry.

IMHO no politics or political disputes should be present in software!


Zeno2, I can assure you that I have nothing to do with any political disputes. I respect Hungary and the Hungarian people just as I respect all other people.

The reason I didn't include the Hungarian language is that it was not available at the time. I developed the program in november-december 2008 and Hungarian was added in February 2009 (check this link (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/translate-between-41-languages-with.html)).
In the meantime I've been really busy and could not update the program, but whenever possible I will include the new languages and post an update.

@ufoss: Turkish language will also be included, since it is now supported by Google Translate :)

@not4you: I don't know a translation program that would keep the dictionary database in the device, but I'm pretty sure there are some. Mă bucur că-ţi place programul :)

@vboyz103: When I'll make a new update, I'll also take into consideration the font size configuration.

[buckyg]

Thanks for the app! It sure helps me occasionally with my friends who don't speak English as their primary language.

Thanks also for recommending Droid, ran into the font issue while trying to help some Asian friends understand a couple of words.

Now if I could just discipline myself enough to really learn at least one other language...

[D3TH METAL]

is it possible to ad copy/paste capability?

[mobilecriss]

is it possible to ad copy/paste capability?

D3th Metal, you can copy/paste by right clicking (click and hold) on the two text boxes (the ones containing the text to be translated and the translated text).

[D3TH METAL]

D3th Metal, you can copy/paste by right clicking (click and hold) on the two text boxes (the ones containing the text to be translated and the translated text).

I tried it to no avail, no worries though..probably something to do with my custom rom.

[mobilecriss]

Version 1.2 has been released, containing 7 more languages: Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician.

It is available here (http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com/)

@D3th Metal: I just checked the copy/paste functionality on my phone and it works. Please check your ROM.

[snark_be]

Version 1.2 has been released, containing 7 more languages: Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician.
Hi,

Version 1.2 gets installed next to the previous version: it does not overwrite it.
Folder for 1.1: \Program Files\w0lf Translator\
Folder for 1.2: \Program Files\W0lf's Translator 1.2\
Entry in Add/Remove for 1.1: Cristi Lupascu w0lf Translator
Entry in Add/Remove for 1.2: Cristi Lupascu W0lf's Translator 1.2

Can't you change the cab so it overwrites any previous version? Make it more easy to upgrade, as it replaces the old version. It takes less space and avoid having 2 shortcuts in the Start Menu.

Usually, putting a version number in the folder path and add/remove entry is not recommended, no? :confused:

[mobilecriss]

Hi,

Version 1.2 gets installed next to the previous version: it does not overwrite it.
Folder for 1.1: \Program Files\w0lf Translator\
Folder for 1.2: \Program Files\W0lf's Translator 1.2\
Entry in Add/Remove for 1.1: Cristi Lupascu w0lf Translator
Entry in Add/Remove for 1.2: Cristi Lupascu W0lf's Translator 1.2

Can't you change the cab so it overwrites any previous version? Make it more easy to upgrade, as it replaces the old version. It takes less space and avoid having 2 shortcuts in the Start Menu.

Usually, putting a version number in the folder path and add/remove entry is not recommended, no? :confused:


Hello Snark_be,

Thank you for pointing out this problem. I had some technical problems with the setup project and I had to recreate it and by mistake I gave it a different Product Name. This is the cause of this behavior.

However, I have modified the setup project and built it again; the new cab can be found in the same location.

[ekksman]

Version 1.2 has been released, containing 7 more languages: Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician.

It is available here (http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com/)

@D3th Metal: I just checked the copy/paste functionality on my phone and it works. Please check your ROM.

Thank you have had great use from your last release, is agreat app, just cookedlast version in rom will cook this one in also

[antoine.bu]

great app...
work's fine i ve just a problem with the font wich is to small to have chinese characters readable...
is there anyway to have an option for the font?

[thierryb]

great app...
work's fine i ve just a problem with the font wich is to small to have chinese characters readable...
is there anyway to have an option for the font?
I use it also for Chinese. Having possibility to increase fonts as options will be great.

[bdbell]

great app...
work's fine i ve just a problem with the font wich is to small to have chinese characters readable...
is there anyway to have an option for the font?

I third that - great app, but totally unable to read the translated text in Chinese - way too small! hope you can make the font size adjustable.

[mobilecriss]

I'll keep that in mind and in the next version I'll provide a way to adjust the size of the font.

[antoine.bu]

thank's a lot that's a great news....

[GeSpot]

It would be nice if you could fix two small issues I've noticed.

1. At application startup, it would be nice if it defaulted to the "Text to translate" textbox. When you start it up now, it defaults to the translated text, so you have to click on the other textbox before translating.
2. Also, while using the application, the "arrow" buttons don't move between the controls on the page, so you actually have to click the screen.

Other than that, it's been great for me. Thanks!

[dannyng]

The translator is very good. But since I dont understand Japanese characters, I hope the translator can be in A-Z instead of Japanese character. For eg.

English : Thank you
Japanese : Arigato Gozaimas

Do we have any apps who works as above?

Cheers....

[mobilecriss]

Thank you for your comments.

@GeSpot:
1. You are right, I'll fix this in the next version
2. The arrow doesn't work when you have focus over certain controls. For instance, when you're over the check box, pressing the down arrow moves the focus to the next control. But in combo boxes the down arrow moves to the next element in the list (next language in our case) and in the multiline text box it moves the cursor to the next row. I'm not sure if this default behavior can be overriden.

@dannyng:
I'm not sure I can provide phonetic translation on the result. Maybe some other apps can do that.

[dannyng]

Thank you for your comments.

@GeSpot:
1. You are right, I'll fix this in the next version
2. The arrow doesn't work when you have focus over certain controls. For instance, when you're over the check box, pressing the down arrow moves the focus to the next control. But in combo boxes the down arrow moves to the next element in the list (next language in our case) and in the multiline text box it moves the cursor to the next row. I'm not sure if this default behavior can be overriden.

@dannyng:
I'm not sure I can provide phonetic translation on the result. Maybe some other apps can do that.

Hi mobilecriss,

Thanks, anyway I think yr work is fantastic. I tried other language (ie. English to Indonesia) it work beautifully.

[tyakimov]

Hi
I have just installed w0lf's Translator on my HTC 730 mobile device, but I get an error
Notsupported exception at
Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAt()...

Any idea?

regards
Yakimo

[mobilecriss]

Hi
I have just installed w0lf's Translator on my HTC 730 mobile device, but I get an error
Notsupported exception at
Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAt()...

Any idea?

regards
Yakimo

Hi, tyakimov!

Some more people ran into this error (or other similar errors) when using the app. For the moment I don't know why this is, I think it has something to do with the Win CF Control infrastructure.
As soon as I discover the true source of the error I'll fix it and I'll provide an update.

Thank you.

[Biker1]

When I use the Phone Keypad keyboard in T9w mode, I can enter characters but in abc mode I cannot.
Everything works using the qwerty keyboard though.

EDIT:

I posted this in the wrong thread.
Can someone please move this post to the Opera 9.7 now available thread. Thanks.

EDIT 2:
I posted this in the correct thread.
Please delete this post. Thanks.

[jcmm]

Wolf's Translator uses the Google Translate engine to provide translations.
It's a small program I wrote, because I find it useful to be able to translate From/To so many languages at any time and it's much easier to use on the mobile phone than the web-based version of Google Translate.

In order to run the program, .Net Compact Framework 3.5 has to be installed on the device. (you can download it from here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3821449-3c6b-42f1-9fd9-0041345b3385&displaylang=en))
Of course, you also need an active Internet Connection.

Currently, the following languages are supported by Google Translate:
- Arabic
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Croatian
- Czezh
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese

Please note that the translations are not always very accurate, but if you have a text in a different language you don't know, it gives you a good idea about what it means in most of the cases.

A nice feature of Google Translate (also present in the application) is the Language Auto Detect feature: you have a text written in I don't know what language, I tell it to translate to English, for example, and it not only translates it, but also shows the language of the source text (try this by checking the Autodetect FROM Language check box).

A feature that right now is missing, but I'm planning to include in a future version is being allowed to save the favourite language pair, so when you open the program it will automatically select your favourite languages.

This program has been tested so far on HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro (VGA) and HTC P3600(Trinity) (QVGA).

Screenshot:
http://i36.tinypic.com/112h7iw.jpg

Edited: 08.12.2008:

Version 1.1 available at http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com/translator

What's new in version 1.1:


- Fixed the "Autodetect" label bug

- Fixed character encoding bug (some characters caused the program to throw an exception)

- Moved the "Cancel" menu item over the "Translate" menu item when processing a request

- "Set Default Languages" - saves the current language combination and restores it when application starts

- "Configure Language Set" - if you only want to use 3 or 4 languages yo may select a subset of the languages supported by the application to be shown in the interface

- Copy/Paste feature

- CAB file for easier installation



Edited: 21.04.2009:

Version 1.2 available at http://w0lfwmcoder.googlepages.com

What's new in version 1.2:

- Added the Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician languages, because they are now supported by Google Translate. (see this link (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/translate-between-41-languages-with.html)). Please note that to access these languages you may have to change your current language set (menu: Options -> Configure Language Set).


Hi,

Congratulations, excellent application. Small size, big potential.

Greetings,

[ozmoran]

Just installed your App
Great piece of work
Very hard to find a translator for Thai but this work flawlessly
Only thing like others have suggested would be to increase Font size seems like you have lots of room in the fields to allow it
Or can you point out a Registry entry that can be modified
My eyes arent what they used to be LOL

[mobilecriss]

Just installed your App
Great piece of work
Very hard to find a translator for Thai but this work flawlessly
Only thing like others have suggested would be to increase Font size seems like you have lots of room in the fields to allow it
Or can you point out a Registry entry that can be modified
My eyes arent what they used to be LOL

Thank you for your appreciation, ozmoran! :)

I plan to include this feature in the very next version. However, I don't know when that will be (I hope pretty soon). I don't have much spare time and that's why I didn't release another version so far.

[ozmoran]

Thank you for your appreciation, ozmoran! :)

I plan to include this feature in the very next version. However, I don't know when that will be (I hope pretty soon). I don't have much spare time and that's why I didn't release another version so far.

No problem
Thanks for the quick reply
cheers

[mobilecriss]

A note for people who reported an error when starting the application:
If by clicking on Details you see in the stack trace something like"[...]at Microsoft.AGL.Common.MISC.HandleAr[...]" it's probably because your device doesn't have enough free memory to start the program.

I recently completed a Windows Mobile app at work and some of the clients reported a similar error. I saw that one of those devices had many programs running and about 20% free memory. After closing some other programs it worked fine.

Hope this helps. :)

[sullivan2002]

Hi to all my friends.

WHY ON GOOGLE TRANSLATOR OR WOLF THERE ARE ALL LANGUAGE, I mean if I go on my windows xp and iexplorer and I link to google translator I see other languages also on OPERA Widgets on my HTC there are other languages that I cannot see on mobile google translator and wolf translator.

Thanks for any possible answer.


Sullivan2002

[mobilecriss]

Hi to all my friends.

WHY ON GOOGLE TRANSLATOR OR WOLF THERE ARE ALL LANGUAGE, I mean if I go on my windows xp and iexplorer and I link to google translator I see other languages also on OPERA Widgets on my HTC there are other languages that I cannot see on mobile google translator and wolf translator.

Thanks for any possible answer.


Sullivan2002

The languages are hardcoded in the application. This gave me the idea of implementing a new feature: a periodic auto-update via web of the list of languages available for translation.

[lordmemo5]

Hey dude amazing job you have here but I wonder... what API did you use because I’ve had some trouble finding one, to use on windows mobile development

Would be great if you could tell me something about it

[mobilecriss]

I have used the regular HTTP API, there's no need for a special Windows Mobile API.

[zninja]

Nice app...but all I see for the Asian languages are boxes. My wife is Korean and she's pissed I don't try to learn more of her language than I do...so I had hoped this would be the show-stopper. Any suggestions on how to get Asian fonts into an HTC Touch (Vogue) running NSFAN's 1.0 ROM?

Cheers!

[lordmemo5]

I have used the regular HTTP API, there's no need for a special Windows Mobile API.

I'm asking something a little bit stupid maybe but I'm desperate, I can’t managed to implement Google Ajax on my windows mobile application, so the thing is do you have any sample project on WM just to translate one language to other, I really need to implement Google translate on background for an application but I’m lost here!
Any suggestions?

Thanks I will appreciate this a lot:)
:(:confused:

[mobilecriss]

I'm asking something a little bit stupid maybe but I'm desperate, I can’t managed to implement Google Ajax on my windows mobile application, so the thing is do you have any sample project on WM just to translate one language to other, I really need to implement Google translate on background for an application but I’m lost here!
Any suggestions?

Thanks I will appreciate this a lot:)
:(:confused:
lordmemo, you don't want to use the Ajax API; that's for web applications.
Instead, use the API for "Flash and other Non-Javascript Environments". This API is based on simple HTTP web requests.

[scilor]

simple but nice :)

[lordmemo5]

Done it no need for help

[lordmemo5]

Done it no need for help

[LordDeath]

After the last update of the translate.google.com site does this still work for you?

[martineli]

Hi guys! :)
This App sounds really cool. Can I use it on my touch pro 2 WM 6.5?
Ans can someone pls tell me how can I write on cirilyc on my phone so I can use russian and bulgarian languages?

Thanks in advance! :)

[drik]

Hey,

I made an icon for your app to include in my iconpack for winmo6.5... thought you might want to see it...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/drikou/WT.png

O zi buna si multumesc pentru aplicatie!

Adrian

[mobilecriss]

Hey,

I made an icon for your app to include in my iconpack for winmo6.5... thought you might want to see it...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/drikou/WT.png

O zi buna si multumesc pentru aplicatie!

Adrian

Hi, Adrian!

That's a really nice icon!

Thanks for sharing.


O zi buna si tie! ;)

[culbuto]

Hi,

Very good app, but it's possible to augment the size of words which they inscribe because on my touch HD letters are very small

[HnAw]

do you have a version for smartphone?

[tedtlogan]

Excellent program! Can you please update it to output the dictionary result as well after a translation, like the google translator 1.6 on freewarepocketpc.net does?

[wbinoto]

Hi. Wolf's Translator 1.2 don't work in my Moto Q11 with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. Do you help me, please? Error: Translator.exe NotSupportedExcepetion in Microsoft.AGL.Commom.MISC.HandleAr() in System.Windows.Forms.Control._InitInstance()... Thanks!

[Emaiche]

Hi. Wolf's Translator 1.2 don't work in my Moto Q11 with Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard. Do you help me, please? Error: Translator.exe NotSupportedExcepetion in Microsoft.AGL.Commom.MISC.HandleAr() in System.Windows.Forms.Control._InitInstance()... Thanks!

See post 113 on Page 12 from the OP - looks like you need to clear some memory down before running it.

[urphonesux]

i can confirm that this app HAS gotten me mexican puss of the laborer and milf varieties :)

[barrybounce]

Fantastic application - many thanks!

[Gharibyan]

Cool, i search good translator...) I have oxford trans. but it was not so good,will test this one.

[Shurub]

Very good app, but if you could add something like an ocr for pictures so that you take a photo of the menu in a restaurant and instant translation.
That would be the best.
Anyway thx for the app.

[sNAKEd]

Work fine with HTC Diamond P3700 where "GoogleTranslator" dont.
Thanks alot for the good work !

[Striving]

It is a nice app but I may have installed it incorrectly is there a icon that will allow you to open it? Or do you have to install 1.1 before you install 1.2? Thanks. Also are you coming out with a version that will allow you to change font size that would be helpful?

[roygbiver]

Cris,

Your email address is nowhere to be found.

I love your application, I am using version 1.3, but PLEASE add support to change or use a different font.

Also, any plans to add google dictionary support for returns of translations?

[fotzki]

good SOP
but i miss copy and past function

[lombo]

hello
I have a problem if you do not know
in options / configure Language Set page does not scroll
thanks!

[telemarker]

See post 113 on Page 12 from the OP - looks like you need to clear some memory down before running it.
I have the problem to run on windows xp and windows mobile. it worked until last mont.

WolfTranslator.Json.JsonException: Excepted character '{', but got: 'n' in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonReader.AssertAndConsumer(C harcharacter)
in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonDeserializer.ParseObject(T ype type)
in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonDeserializer.DeserializerV alue(Type type)
in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonDeserializer.ParseObject(T ype type)
in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonDeserializer.DeserializerV alue(Type type)
in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonDeserializer.Deserializer[T](JsonReader reader, String fieldPrefix)
in WolfTranslator.Json.JsonDeserializer.Deserializer[T](JsonReader reader)
in WolfTranslator.Translator.Translate()

any idea?

[pdaXXX333]

Same problem here, could anybody fix the problem?

[mobilecriss]

The Google language API is no longer available as a free service.

This, unfortunately, means that the program cannot be fixed. :(

According to Google:
- Google Translate API v1 is no longer available
- Google Translate API v2 is now available as a paid service only

See http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html

[altae]

What about bing? They also offer a translation service.