Method and system for language translation within an interactive software application.

申请公布号：: EP0557228(A2)
申请号：: EP19930480002
申请日期：: 1993.01.26
申请公布日期：: 1993.08.25
申请人：: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
发明人：: ANDREWS, GREG P.;RAPP, WILLIAM CRAIG;SCHLOSS, PHILLIP CHRISTIAN;SCHULZ, DANIEL DUANE;SHAO, SCHUMAN
分类号：: G06F15/00;G06F3/023;G06F3/033;G06F3/048;G06F9/44;G06F17/28;(IPC1-7):G06F3/02;G06F15/38
主分类号：: G06F15/00
摘要：: <p>A method and system for facilitating language translation of text fields within an interactive software application. A control parameter is associated with each text field within an interactive software application prior to translation and utilized to automatically extract each text field for translation and to reinsert a translated text field thereafter. In certain interactive software applications which utilize fixed template user-interface structures, such as dialog boxes or menu templates, the architecture will not permit captions or menu pulldown controls to be identified within the template. In such applications, an additional artificial control parameter is included within the template which contains an identifier of the text field for the caption or menu pulldown control. Thereafter, the control parameters may be utilized to automatically extract text fields for translation. An attempted automatic extraction of text fields for translation in an application, which includes dialog boxes or menu templates, will result in an error message in the absence of the required artificial control parameter.</p>