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[Dra_Gon]

I had a thought the other day and just not sure if it could be done {or even how to go about doing it}.
Say you d/l a program and the GUI is in a foreign language. Well, what if you could activate the LO {language overlay} which "sees" the GUI, makes an overlay copy of it, but with English words {or the user's home language}.
The LO would have to obviously be able to:
1- Get into the program to get the text & GUI info
2- Have some sort of interpetation setup
3- Place the labels correctly
4- Allow for user input via keyboard & mouseThere'll most likely be other stuff I haven't even thought of that it has to do. Anyway, I was just wondering what anyone else thought of this. No doubt it would take some heavy-duty coding {which I am far from being able to do} if it's even possible.
Any comments?

Dra'Gon

[engunneer]

as a start, you could use the Gui stealer with SmartGui. You can then make a copy of the program, and the only hard part would to be to keep the controls in sync.

[Dra_Gon]

as a start, you could use the Gui stealer with SmartGui.

Ahh, that would be good if you were only using it for one program.
But what I had in mind, is if maybe you had a few different programs which - for some oddball reason - weren't available in the user's home language {say english}, then the LO would "detect" the GUI in each case and form itself over it, just replacing the original language with the user's home language.
How I figure it would work is you'd start the LO then use it to start the program you want to use {a browse button in the LO's GUI or some such}. No matter which program you bring up it should be able to configure itself to that GUI. And also allow for window movement/sizing.

Dra'Gon

[engunneer]

depending on the program, you could just override the control text in situ, as it were.

can you give an example program to translate?

[Dra_Gon]

can you give an example program to translate?

Hmm, not offhand, though I occasionally come across a few now and then which I can't use because they weren't in english.

depending on the program, you could just override the control text in situ, as it were.

Would it be possible to override a program's original language {from outside the program} and use another? That might even be better.

Dra'Gon

[engunneer]

if you can come up with an example (pick an easy to translate language) I will try to write an example script.

I don't know if menus can be overwritten easily, that would be the hardest part.

[Dra_Gon]

Okay, here's one already in English I just found for a sample:
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It's only 104k to download with a very basic interface. But say someone in france wants to use it and doesn't understand english.

Dra'Gon

[engunneer]

it gives me errors when I try to start it.

I don't have much time to play with this today

[Dra_Gon]

I was able to use it right off. Anyway, thanks for what you can do. Maybe something could come of this in the future.

Dra'Gon