Translator

[tunde]

sorry i mean i wanna create a simple translator program in qt4 from english to chinese. any ideas to start??????? or examples i can use to implement.......

[blex]

Look at http://goldendict.org/ It contains work with dictionaries.

[tunde]

thanks for the link. however, i need it to be a standalone application that just provide a simple translation from english to chinese.something similar like google translate. however, i just wanna create a simple translator program...... just the steps needed will be enough of a good start for me....

[blex]

In Qt installation in examples directory just look on webkit\previewer and richtext\textobject

But it is not exactly what you want. It is just examples of UI.

Work with dictionary is implemented, as I said above, in GoldenDict. Sources are available and it is Qt-based.

Translation-engine is not Qt-related part, I do not know about any free implementation.

[tunde]

i tried searching for an example of any sample translation program in qt4 that translates a word from one language to another ; but to no avail.please help

[blex]

No such example. To translate the word you need a dictionary. Dictionary is not a part of Qt.

I show you above one example that already does it, but it is rather complex.

[alexander]

Which dictionary do you want to use? online?

[tunde]

yea.maybe using the google translate api or some kind of dictionary integrated into a simple translator program ..

[tunde]

i used 2 textedit to write the word,2 combox for selection of one language to another and a push button called "Translate" to translate the word based from the 2 combobox... now my idea is that is there any api or something i could use to integrate with this simple program... an example of how to create it would be helpful or beneficial

[tunde]

anyways.i have a source code of a translator program a friend of mines did.apparently it did not produce the translated word.... but it gave this application output
"
QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_translate_clicked()
Langs setted
Lang flags configured...
Last pair loaded
All buttons are connected
"

anyone that is willing to help , i can send the source code with the folder.....an email will be preferable

[alexander]

is it gpl or commercial program ?

[DenisKormalev]

tunde, looks like there was a button named translate (I think it was main button of app and it did actual translating) and it was renamed. Try to rename it back to translate.

[tunde]

gpl program

[tunde]

actually "Translate" was the push button for the application and on_translate_clicked() was the function to translate from a text edit to another text edit with the languages provided

[tunde]

i can provide the source code but it is kinda large

[anselmolsm]

tunde, use a source code hosting service (e.g. "gitorious":http://gitorious.org/, "github":https://github.com/, etc) then just post the link here :-)

[DenisKormalev]

tunde, I'm not saying about title but about its name in .ui file.

[sflr]

You have the shell of the app which is a good start, now you need the 'meat', the actual text translating functionality. I recommned you implement Google Translate API "from here":http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html to do the translation for you. They have documentation and example source code as well.

[stukdev]

Yes, use Google API, is the simple way!

Something like this "Qt App":http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/QGoogleTranslator?content=135221

[tunde]

i created a little english to chinese translator using the google translate api;however, it does not show the translated text..the source code can be seen on
https://github.com/tigertown/chinese-translator

help will be appreciated