Adding Languages to Progress Applications
Do you have opportunities that require adding languages to your application?
Has the high cost of localization prevented you from realizing those opportunities?
WizTOM for PROGRESS is a highly efficient technology for
localizing Progress applications. You can use it to add languages to your application to reach global
markets, to expand your base of users in your local market, or to customize applications for
individual clients.
If you struggle with maintaining homebrew localization tools and processes, or
have projects that have outgrown Progress Translation Manager,
WizTom can relieve you of unwieldy localization processess and
bring you to a modern and supported methodology.
Features of WizTom™ for Progress
Localize your applications efficiently and cost effectively with
WizTOM for PROGRESS.
Here are some of the features and benefits of WizTOM for PROGRESS:
- Knows the formats of Progress 4GL source and database dump files, and can extract strings directly.
- Displays translations in context. This helps translators choose text
with the correct meaning and fitting the available space, eliminating costly errors and retranslation.
- Separates language from code. Source code is not changed
to include translations; translations are maintained separately from the code.
This eliminates a significant cause of programming errors.
It also reduces conflicts between localization and development schedules and improves time-to-market.
- Very fast extraction. Unlike Progress Translation Manager,
lengthy overnight compiles of the entire application are
not required in support of string extraction.
- Supports translation memory and glossaries.
Reusing previously-approved translations, saves money and reduces translation errors.
- Translators can resize dialogs.
Programmers are no longer needed to modify source code to
accommodate string expansion due to translation. Translators
resize dialogs while they translate, so programmers can focus on
other tasks.
- Provides support missing in Progress 4GL for right-to-left
languages. WizTom will mirror-image screens and change the
direction of text to accommodate the writing direction of Arabic
and Hebrew languages, without changes to source code.
- Supports Unicode and all languages used in Progress
markets, including European, Asian and Middle Eastern.
- Supports multiple development environments— Java, C++, HTML, XML, and others.
Having one localization methodology for all
development frameworks is important for
open environments like The Progress® OpenEdge™ Business Platform.
- Source code not required! WizTom translates
components that you don't have the source code for, such as DLL and OCXs.
