The Translation Editor may be used to translate the project's texts, although there are other and better ways of doing it as described below. To add or modify a translation in the Thesaurus Editor, simply double click on the translation's cell and type in the new translation.

For longer texts, or paragraphs including HTML formatting such as bold or italic characters, it will be easier to use the WYSIWYG Editor at the bottom of the window.

The Translation Editor also provides several features to make the translator's life easier. All are easily accessible from the Translation Editor's toolbar.

For instance, it is possible to:

 show/hide translated texts to quickly access untranslated texts;

 show/hide texts with longer translations;

 sort texts in alphabetic order.

The HTML Editor allows you to easily view and translate long messages and HTML paragraphs.

If it is not readily available, you first need to make sure the bottom panel is visible with the Edit Mode icon. This icon activates a panel at the bottom of the Translation Editor, which contains two edit boxes: one box on the left hand side for the original string, and a second box on the right hand side for the translated string.

Also, make sure that the HTML Editor is enabled with the 'Enable HTML Editor' icon. If it is not available, HTML paragraphs will de displayed as code instead of being displayed as in a Web browser.

Although the Translation Editor is a powerful tool to update translations in the Multilingual Database, it is not the tool translators work with. This is why WizTom Studio comes with WizTom Translation Pad, a standalone program that can be sent to translators over the Internet and including the same features as WizTom Studio's Translation Editor.

To avoid sending the whole Thesaurus file to each translator, WizTom Studio also provides import/export filters to prepare Thesaurus Pad files. Here is the process to work with translators:

 export texts to a Thesaurus Pad file;

 send the Thesaurus Pad file to the translator, including WizTom Translation Pad if necessary;

 import the translator's work into the Multilingual Database after the translator has sent the Translation Pad file back.

To open the Export filter, click on the Import/Export button and choose the 'Export to Translation Pad File' menu item.

By default, the Export dialog will use the project's Multilingual Database as the source of the texts to be exported, and will only export untranslated texts, making it easier for the translator to work with the Translation Pad file. You may also want to check the 'Zip Translation Pad file' check box to compress the Translation Pad file. Check the settings and choose the location for the Thesaurus Pad file, then click on the OK button. You may also want to use the Languages button to export only one language.

You may then use your favorite messaging program to send the resulting file to the translators. If you need to include the WizTom Translation Pad program, you will find this program in WizTom's installation folder, which is C:\WizArt by default. Click here to find out more about WizTom Translation Pad.

After the translator has finished translating the texts and has sent the Translation Pad file back, the Multilingual Database must be updated with the new/modified translations. This is done with the Import filter.

To open the Import filter, click on the Import/Export button and choose the 'Export to Translation Pad File' menu item.

Select the translator's Translation Pad file and check the content is correct. Check the settings (replace existing translations, add new ones) and click on OK to import the new translations. The Multilingual Database now contains the translations!

Review the translated application