September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
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BabelFish Web Service
The BabelFish translation service at
XMethods (http://www.xmethods.net) is a sample
that can be implemented easily with a couple of text fields, a combo
box, and a button. With a few lines of ActionScript code, you can put
language translation functionality into a Flash movie and into your
site. The BabelFish method at
http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/BabelFishService.wsdl
takes two arguments: translationmode and
sourcedata.
The translationmode argument is a special code for
the two languages used in the translation, as shown in Table 10-2. This data is displayed in a combo box named
language_cb.
Table 10-2. Translation modes for the BabelFish remote method
|
From |
To |
translationmode |
|
English |
French |
en_fr |
|
English |
German |
en_de |
|
English |
Italian |
en_it |
|
English |
Portuguese |
en_pt |
|
English |
Spanish |
en_es |
|
French |
English |
fr_en |
|
German |
English |
de_en |
|
Italian |
English |
it_en |
|
Portuguese |
English |
pt_en |
|
Russian |
English |
ru_en |
|
Spanish |
English |
es_en |
The sourcedata argument is the text that you want
translated (limited to a string of 150 characters or less). The Flash
UI, shown in Figure 10-2, allows the user to type
into the from_txt text field, choose a language
translation from the combo box, click a button, and get the result in
a text field named to_txt.
 |
Figure 10-2. Translation interface
The client-side ActionScript code is shown in Example 10-4, using ...
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