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WizTom for Windows
- Extracting Texts
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While the capture mode is well suited for
small projects and exceptional update of
the Multilingual Database (for instance,
if the application was only slightly modified),
it is not feasible to use it for a larger
application.
Extracting the texts of an application
consists in scanning the files and eventual
databases making up the application. WizTom
Studio provides several specialized extractors
together with extensions in order to make
it possible to retrieve texts directly from
the application's source code.
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Setting up
the Extractor |
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Open the Extractor window by clicking
on the Extractor button and click on the Options
icon from the toolbar to select the extractors
for your project.
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The Options dialog box shows the list of available
extractors, but only those that are checked will
be used. Make sure the Windows 32bits Extractor
is selected and active. This extractor comes in
handy when the application's source code is not
available. It allows extracting texts from an
executable file's resource section.
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The next step is to select the files for extraction.
Click on the Open Directory icon to select
the files for your project.
In this case, Notepad is usually found in the
Windows folder, usually C:\WINNT or C:\WINDOWS.
By default, WizTom Studio scans entire directories,
but it is possible to select single files only:
deselect the whole directory, then reselect only
the Notepad executable file and its DLLs. You
may also create your own temporary directory to
copy only the necessary EXE and DLL files.
In the example below, a temporary folder has
been created in the C:\WizArt directory, and the
NOTEPAD.EXE as well as the COMDLG32.DLL (Windows
Common Dialogs, which contain common dialog definitions
for the Open, Save, Save As, Print, etc. dialog
boxes) have been copied to it.
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When you close the Extractor window, these settings
will be saved in the project's thesaurus, so that
you will not have to set up the Extractor again
the next time you use it.
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Extracting
Texts from the Application |
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To extract the texts from the application,
simply click on the Extract Texts icon. The
selected files will be scanned and texts will
be retrieved and displayed in the Extractor right
hand window.
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Extracted texts may be reviewed before inclusion
in the Multilingual Database. This is useful when
scanning source files for instance, where undesirable
strings might be extracted such as e.g. SQL query
strings. To exclude a particular string, simply
uncheck it or use a filter with the Excluded Texts
dialog.
Once texts have been reviewed, they may be sent
to the Multilingual Database. Click on the
Send Texts icon to include the selected texts
in the Multilingual Database.
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Translate texts 
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