Fun with Google Translator

Much of what I do is building Flash UI's for web services that communicate in some form of XML. XML itself is, to some people I suppose, hard to read and understand, so my job is to try to make it look like the graphic designer wants it to look like. Sometimes I have no graphic designer to work with, so this is the result:



How it works is you type something in some language you speak in the top box, tell it what language you wrote that in by clicking a box in the top row (using the little international language abbreviations as your guide) then click the bottom row box which corresponds to the language you want to translate your statement into.

Hit "translate" and the flash widget sends the appropriate arguments directly to google translator (after stripping out illegal characters you may have typed in-or trying to anyway) then displays the result in the bottom box. A fun thing to do is then paste the bottom box text into the top box and swap the box settings to see how it translates back.

Kind o fun, for a nerdy linguist.

too small ? click here to view it in alone.