Re: Forms GUI

Get the developers to give you a either access to the system so you can see or at least a screen dump of each page to be translated. Are you using translation builder to recompile the form into English ?

"Rutulian" <member36200_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message news:3259255.1061280210_at_dbforums.com...
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> Hello everyone, I'm new to Forms and PL/SQL but know my way around with
> Java and SQL.
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> I'm translating a forms application from German to English, and I've
> been given a form which is basically the result of a query on all text
> strings in the application, which are stored in a table.
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> Now, the developer of that form didn't realise that it's actually very
> difficult to translate without context, as a german word can have 3 or 4
> possible english meanings, often all rather different.
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> What I'd like to do is build something where I have the standard
> application GUI displayed, with another block below it. When I click on
> a piece of text in the GUI I'd like it to pop up the relevant text in my
> block at the bottom (every text block has a unique id number), then I
> can get on with translation.
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> Is it possible to go to this level of abstraction in Forms (they're
> using Forms 6), using a Form itself as my data source instead of a
> table? The GUI doesn't have to be functional, I just want to be able to
> see the form I'm translating from. Alternatively, I'd be quite happy to
> write it in Java if there's a way to get at the forms from Java.
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> Sorry if I've asked easy questions, I've been given no books and no help
> here, just sat down by that string query I mentioned earlier and told to
> translate!
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Received on Tue Aug 19 2003 - 17:15:23 CEST