RC-WinTrans 9: What's New

This topic provides information on the latest development news for each RC-WinTrans release.
 

Extended and improved to process .NET Framework 4.0 files (RESX, .RESOURCES and assembly (EXE, DLL) files).

Command line functions to export data to and import data from an Excel spreadsheet have been added to the MS Excel Add-On's set of capabilities.
See the Excel Add-On online help ("Command Line" topic) for details.

Satellite DLLs are automatically signed with a given .snk file (key pair file).

The release notes have been updated.

See the RC-WinTrans Release Notes for details.

RC-WinTrans setup and use has been enabled for the Windows 7 operating system.

RC-WinTrans' Text Table view can now display the contents of more than two languages at a time, facilitating reviews across multiple target languages.  A column is added to the view for each language set to be visible; clicking in the column activates that language as the current target language.

An integrated online news service keeps you informed of new features, known issues and available updates by displaying an alert in RC-WinTrans if changes to the news site are detected at startup.

The support for XLIFF files has been updated and extended.  Online Help:  "Translating XLIFF Files."

An extension of the RC-WinTrans COM interface furnishes a command to set temporary (blue dot) markers in the Projects Overview and Project Data views for items that have undergone layout changes (dialog boxes, dialog box controls).

Free general support and free product updates with bug fixes and new features for at least two years.

Windows Installer XML (WXL) files are now supported.  File extension: .wxl; file format: XML

A new file converter module supporting the translation of Borland Delphi DFM files has been added.

The RC-WinTrans COM interface has two new API functions: "Application::ExFcts" and "TranslationProject." These are documented in the RC-WinTrans VBA Help ("RCWinTransVBA.chm").

Several bugs and/or problems have been fixed since the last service release.  See the RC-WinTrans Release Notes for details.

64-bit application files including Windows (EXE/DLL) and .NET Windows Forms (EXE/DLL) are now supported by RC-WinTrans.

A new option lets you activate the spell check function from Microsoft Word for texts entered in RC-WinTrans.  The MS Word Spell Checker works as an alternative to the Internal Spell Checker that is built in to RC-WinTrans.

RC-WinTrans has been extended to provide access to the Microsoft Word application for various other purposes besides the aforementioned spell check.  Translation texts can be displayed in Word when they are selected in RC-WinTrans, then modified there and saved to the translation project.  Other tools/functions available in Word may also prove useful, such as the ability to enter a line break, something which is not possible in the Translation Edit bar.

The Internal Spell Checker has been updated and improved to make it more efficient.  The function that indicates misspellings while you are typing now works properly, and certain common, software-specific characters, like the ampersand (&) indicating a hotkey when placed before a letter, are disregarded.

The ampersand character (&) is now ignored when texts are sorted according to the source or target text in the Text Table view.

The settings for exporting a text with or without quotation marks and for appending data to the end of the file are maintained for the next use of the "Export to Text File" function.

The Source Files property page in the Source and Target Files dialog box has been redesigned. Commands are now available to add and remove source files and/or to change a source file reference (name and path).  A history of the changes protocol files created by the update database process has also been added where each changes protocol file may be opened and viewed.

The name and path for a target file can now be specified for each target file individually.  Before the rule was applied to all the target files of a certain file type.

The Target File Names dialog box is opened from the Target Files property page (Source and Target Files dialog box).

The name and the language code of an existing target language can now be changed from the Languages property page in the Project Properties dialog box.

A Size & Position bar showing the size and position of a selected dialog box control item has been added to RC-WinTrans.  This toolbar is visible whenever the Dialog Box view is active and can be moved and docked for optimal placement.

This add-on extends RC-WinTrans‘ functionality to display and edit source and translation texts with new line and tab control characters.

Details:  Multi-Line Editor Online Help...

The Multi-Line Editor Add-On can be downloaded from the Version X8 download area on our Website.

This add-on provides some useful functions based on requests and suggestions from RC-WinTrans users.

Details:  Extra Functions Online Help...

The add-on can be downloaded from the customer download area on our Website.

Two new add-on products for RC-WinTrans have been released:

For details please visit the "Products" page at www.schaudin.com.

Several bugs and/or problems have been fixed since the last service release.  See the RC-WinTrans Release Notes for details.

The reference to a source file (file name and path) in a translation project can be changed in the Properties tab view.

Online Help:  "Changing a Source File Reference"

When suggesting a hotkey character RC-WinTrans gives priority to the same character used in the source text.

If an item that has been automatically translated has a source text match value of less than 100% RC-WinTrans saves the source text (from the data source) in the item's history.  This lets the user check (compare) source text differences in RC-WinTrans' Differences tab view (Miscellaneous bar).

The data origin (match value and name of the data source) is shown in the "Origin" column of the Text Table view (if this column is set to be visible).

The macro project version of each macros file loaded in RC-WinTrans' VBA environment can be viewed on the VBA Macros Files property page (Options dialog box).

Online Help:  "VBA Macros Files Property Page"

New Options dialog box for settings related to the converter for XML files.

Two new add-on products are available for RC-WinTrans:

Bugs and/or problems have been fixed since the last service release.  See the RC-WinTrans Release Notes for details.

Support for text-based localization of .NET 3.0 (WPF) assemblies.  (GUI editing is not supported.)

Several bugs or problems have been reported and eliminated since the last service release.  See the RC-WinTrans Release Notes for details.