Show Thread Enhancements - Translate a Thread in a Google Pop-Up Window

Support and updates for this mod will now be given in the 3.7.x thread, as this should work no matter what your version of vB. If you have any questions, please ask in that thread.

DJ's Translate a Thread in a Google Pop-up Window

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Supported Languages
العربية (Arabic)
Български (Bulgarian)
中国 (Chinese - Simplified)
中國 (Chinese - Traditional)
Hrvatski (Croatian)
Česky (Czech)
Dansk (Danish)
Nederlands (Dutch)
English (This is merely a direct link to the Google Translator)
Suomi (Finnish)
Fran?ais (French)
Ελληνική (Greek)
Deutsch (German)
हिन्दी (Hindi)
Italiano (Italian)
日本語 (Japanese)
한국어 (Korean)
Norsk (Norwegian)
Polski (Polish)
Portugu?s (Portuguese)
Rom?nă (Romanian)
Русский Russian
Espa?ol (Spanish)
Svenska (Swedish)


Live Demo
Look for the "Translate" drop-down menu beside the "Display Modes" drop-down.

[Lombardo]

can't translate things to english it takes you to a translation page to do it yourself,can that be changed?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Lombardo

can't translate things to english it takes you to a translation page to do it yourself,can that be changed?

The English link is there as a courtesy mainly. The way Google's "Translate a Web Page" works is it has to know what language your translating to and from. So it is possible to get it to translate to English, but the starting language would always have to be the same, meaning ALWAYS Spanish to English or ALWAYS Dutch to English, etc. Likely not practical to most forums.

I may be able to come up with an modification to the modification (I just like saying that) that adds all of Google's [Insert Language] to English options. But it may take me a bit to make it practical and user friendly. I'll look into it.

[Itworx4me]

I have installed this mod. I also have vbseo installed and it doesn't play very friendly with the mod. I get red x's where images should be. Anyway of making this vbseo friendly?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Itworx4me

I have installed this mod. I also have vbseo installed and it doesn't play very friendly with the mod. I get red x's where images should be. Anyway of making this vbseo friendly?

Thanks,
Itworx4me

Not without knowing more about vBSEO. My first impression though, presuming the link in your profile is the correct site, is that it's Google causing the problem and not a conflict with the two mods, per se. I took one of your threads and copy and pasted the URL into Google's "Translate a Web Page" directly, and it did the same thing. Apparently, each time it translates a page it thinks the images are in the same directory as your thread. So, for example, if there's a post icon in a thread in General Chat, Google thinks the icon is located at:

/general-chat/images/icons/icon10.gif

Rather than where it actually is, in:

/images/icons/icon10.gif

Same thing for an image in NHRA. It tacks /nhra just after the .com. I hate to leave it at that, but unless I know more about how vBSEO formats your threads, I'm afraid this is one of those "don't know" questions. For now anyway. I'll do my best to look into it.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Lombardo

can't translate things to english it takes you to a translation page to do it yourself,can that be changed?

Lombardo, and to anyone else interested, I added an alternative version of the mod that should do what you asked. Please see Post 2 for more information and let me know this works for you.

[Lombardo]

I can't get it too work mate,first thing its hard to keep your cursor over it to click it because it just closes and when i eventually get to click it nothing happens.

[Digital Jedi]

Well, that might be the problem. Your not supposed to click it. It just opens when you move your mouse over it. vBulletin menus just open once you've already opened a window. For example, try opening a regular drop down, and you'll notice when move your mouse over any of the other ones, they open and close without clicking. If you click them, you close it again.

That's what's been happening here. Just mouse over the menu like you would any other kind of drop down menu, and the sub menu will automatically open. If you try to click it, your just going to turn the menu off.

[Lombardo]

Yeah when i put my mouse over it it closes tho.

[vbob]

Hi,
My main Language of my forum is Greek. I want to translate Greek to English...etc...!!! When I press the menu to translate my thread to English, the pop up does not translate anything, but it just shows me the Google translation page...!!! What should I change to the code so it can be functional from Greek to any other language???
Edit: Hmm another issue: ...I have the "Welcome" mod for guests to show them a message and invite them to register to the site...!!! it seems that if the mod translates something from the thread it just translate the welcome message - because google isn't a registered user and sees that message!!!! Is there a way to make the mod tranlate the thread correctly? :-)
(Still...when I press the english flag, it just shows me the Google translation page only and doesn't do any translation)

Thank you...!!! :-)

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Lombardo

Yeah when i put my mouse over it it closes tho.

It shouldn't. Can I see a link to where you have it installed?

Originally Posted by vbob

Hi,
My main Language of my forum is Greek. I want to translate Greek to English...etc...!!! When I press the menu to translate my thread to English, the pop up does not translate anything, but it just shows me the Google translation page...!!! What should I change to the code so it can be functional from Greek to any other language???

See post two of this thread. That's the alternative if you want more [LANGUAGE] to English options.

If you don't want all those options, you could also just remove the block of code marked <!--English--> in the first version and replace it with the line of code marked <!--English To Greek--> in Post 2. EDIT: (Yes, I just realized I have that entire menu marked wrong. They shoud all be marked [LANGUAGE] to English, not English to [LANGUAGE])

Edit: Hmm another issue: ...I have the "Welcome" mod for guests to show them a message and invite them to register to the site...!!! it seems that if the mod translates something from the thread it just translate the welcome message - because google isn't a registered user and sees that message!!!! Is there a way to make the mod tranlate the thread correctly? :-)

Unfortunately, no. Google can only translate what it can see. Or conversely, it will translate everything it sees. Basically this mod utilized 3rd party functionality, and as such, is limited by what the 3rd party offers. But I have presented the issue to Google. It remains to be seen when (or if) they'll get back to me.

(Still...when I press the english flag, it just shows me the Google translation page only and doesn't do any translation)

See above.

Thank you...!!! :-)

No problem.