WizTom for PowerBuilder

WizTom for PowerBuilder takes your PowerBuilder application one step further, providing a full-blown multilingual user interface to your application without any programming effort.

Thanks to WizTom for PowerBuilder, developers focus on software architecture and logic while the application is being translated. Using WizTom for PowerBuilder allows for shorter time-to-market of internationalized versions and easier maintenance. Over with partially translated interfaces and multiple-versions maintenance hell!

Based on the powerful WizTom for Windows interception engine, WizTom for PowerBuilder takes all the advantages of PowerBuilder's robust environment and enables full control over DataWindows and other PowerBuilder specific controls.

Architecture Overview

WizTom for PowerBuilder is based on the same technology as WizTom for Windows. To fully translate PowerBuilder specific controls such as DataWindows, WizTom for PowerBuilder comes with a specialized extension to expand WizTom for Windows capabilities and gain full-control over your PowerBuilder application.

As a result, not only is WizTom for PowerBuilder capable of translating the basic user interface (menus, labels, etc.), but it also handles DataWindows and all PowerBuilder specific controls, providing the ability to enable or disable translation of database-populated controls, resize controls and windows, change fonts, etc.

Thanks to WizTom for PowerBuilder, companies like Baxter Healthcare (US) and Unisys (UK) were able to ship out multilingual versions of their applications (including Japanese versions), with no impact on their development cycles.

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PowerBuilder Extractor

WizTom for PowerBuilder also provides a specialized extractor to work directly from PowerBuilder code and GUI design. This extractor connects to your PowerBuilder Libraries (PBLs) using PowerBuilder's ORCA APIs.

Code and properties associated to the objects making up your application are then scanned, and the PowerBuilder Extractor collects strings such as error messages, labels, window titles, etc. After the extraction process is finished, these strings are sent to the WizTom Multilingual Database for translation.

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Supported Versions

WizTom for PowerBuilder now supports all PowerBuilder versions from 5 to 10.

Windows 9x/Me/NT4/2000 and XP are supported.

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