I've made a script that uses Altavista Babelfish engine to translate on the fly texts you send to your contacts.

Usage :
!translate brings up the GUI for translation
!translate lng1 lng2 text translate directly from lang1 to lang2
!translate info shows the info window, with language codes and stuff...

You can also access these commands and the about window by clicking on the MsgPlus! icon in one of your contact windows.



Please leave your suggestions here and report if you find some bugs.

The windows dissapear behind the conversation window instead of poping up infront of it (flash infront then goes behind conversation window).

Yeah i'm working on this f**** behavior . I still don't know why it is doing this, if someone knows, please help me ^^

But it seems this is only happening when you select an option from the CommandMenu, if you type it directly it doesn't flash.

love the script, like the pop ups too if you type something wrong spaces all over the place though on mine
is there any way to translate whats incoming? thanks

yes i'm planning on doing that for an update in the near future

very good script!

Good Word Dhaya

nice job mate

Love it.

Now I don't need to have a Google tools open to talk to some of my buds

Lovely script!

I'm gonna use it ALOT!
And, remember to submit it to the MP!LSD (Messenger Plus! Live Scripts Database).

thanks again. I've submitted the scripts

I love the script but the window popping up behind the message window needs to be fixed :/

A+ otherwise

Thanks so much Dhaya. Will come in very handy

Congrats on this excellent plugin. I was never aware of the possibilities of WLM and JS together with AJAX.

I have been modifying the script tonight and I got it working now with Freetranslation.com as well. In my opinion this engine is faster and translates better.

It annoyed me I had to type !translate in front of every sentence, so I made a trigger which, once pressed, will translate anything you write. Until you type the trigger again.

I will be working on the script the coming days and will post my version later on. For now I will create a seperate script for freetranslation.com, but I will also try to incorporate it into this one, so people won't need to use 2 scripts.

I will keep you all updated

would be cool if you could choose upon installation of the script which site to use eg google, babelfish etc anyway to have an incoming translator too? because that would totally rock

I was thinking of a settings dialog where people are able to set their favorite translating engine. That shouldn't be too hard. I will be looking into the possibilities of translating the incoming messages. I think it should be possible as well.

Wow, this is realy useful =D

Good job

A small update:

I have been working on and off on the script for the past week and so far I have been able to accomplish the following:

• Translation through FreeTranslation.com
  
• Ability to enable translation for everything you write
  
• Ability to activate the translation for each contact individually
  
• Ability to set the translation language per contact
  
• Saving settings to an external settings file

• GUI
  
• Choosing which translation website/engine to use
  
• Translation of incoming messages (checking for possibilities)

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Originally posted by watchout
Translation of incoming messages (checking for possibilities)

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Yeah, so I guess the best way is to put a little window next to the chatwindow and put the translated messages in there

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Originally posted by Ezra
Yeah, so I guess the best way is to put a little window next to the chatwindow and put the translated messages in there

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I can try to make it but I think it's better if Dhaya does it

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Originally posted by Ezra
Yeah, so I guess the best way is to put a little window next to the chatwindow and put the translated messages in there

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

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Originally posted by Ezra
Yeah, so I guess the best way is to put a little window next to the chatwindow and put the translated messages in there

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That sounds SO cool. lmao. Me wants even though I got no forign contacts

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Originally posted by watchout
I was thinking of something like that.. perhaps put the translation on a new line with a different color.. A little bit like the /me command

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single click to select all and copy to clipboard would be good with the second window idea