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[sheitman]

Hi.

My translator get payed per word so I need some way to count the words they have to translate. At the moment I copy and paste the invariant data to excel, remove the duplicates and then paste it to word to count the words.
However if its not really complicated I would liek to see such a funtion in Globalizer. I think a lot of people could find some use for it.

Best regards,
Sven

[Infralution]

OK - we may be able to incorporate that into the Validation feature we are planning for the next major release.
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[sheitman]

Is there some schedule for the next major version or already some information what will be included, prices etc?

[Infralution]

We are hoping to release version 3 of the software by around May/Jun. Features that have already been completed include (from the version 3 release notes):

• Restructured XML, HTML and WPF properties related to scanning and moved them to Settings tab. These properties can now be set for any target within the Workspace. This enables you to set the scan properties for XML, HTML or WPF targets at the workspace level, but still override them for a specific Project or File targets.
  
• Merged Target->Add menus for XML, HTML and INI Files into a single Target->Add->Files menu. The Add Files Target dialog now allows you explicitly set the Target Type (ie XML, HTML or INI) of files selected for a File Group or to automatically detect the target type based on the file name. The rules for auto target type detection can be set via the Files/Folder options under the Settings tab. This allows you to create a single Files target that can include child Targets of different types.
  
• Added Include sub-folders option to File Group targets. This allows you to easily scan all files within a directory hierarchy.
  
• Added the ability to copy and paste settings between targets (and workspaces).
  
• Added automatic detection of targets (such as Forms, Controls and File targets) that are no longer used in a Workspace when scanning. Unused targets are displayed with a question mark in the Workspace Explorer and can be removed using the new Target->Remove Unused menu option.
  
• Added Flatten Folders option in Settings. This option is checked by default which gives similar behaviour to Globalizer Version 2 where folders in Projects and File Group targets are ignored and scanned child targets (eg Form and Control targets) are created directly under the parent Project or File Group target. Unchecking this option means that Globalizer will create targets (displayed in the Workspace Explorer window) that reflect the folder structure in the Project or File Group. This option can be set at the Workspace level or for individual targets.
  
• Moved display of Excluded Child Targets to the Settings tab. This enables you to quickly select targets in the workspace and see whether they have excluded child targets without having to continually open and close a dialog as you did in Version 2.
  
• Added Run/Edit using Culture option to Language Properties dialog. This allows you to control the specific culture that used for editing and starting applications when using neutral cultures. Previously Globalizer would just use the first specific culture for the neutral culture.
  
• Added Switch windows culture on Start Application option to Workspace and Project properties. This allows you to control whether Globalizer will automatically switch the windows users culture to the selected culture before starting the localized application.
  
• Added Application Arguments to Project properties. This allows you to specify arguments to pass to the application when it is started. Application arguments for Projects and Workspaces can now contain a {0} placeholder for the culture name. This allows your application to implement switching the culture based on an argument. For instance setting the Application Arguments to "/culture:{0}" would call the application with the argument "/culture:de-de" when the selected culture is German(Germany).
  
• Added new Start Page which provides quick access to sample projects and other Globalizer resources
  
• Support for Custom Events (similar to Visual Studio build events) which are applied when Globalizer creates or writes to files, to allow integration with Version Control Systems.
  

Other major new features we would like to include in Version 3 are:

• Validation - a new window which allows various validation checks on the translations eg that the placeholder or tags match.
  
• Change/Difference highlighting within translations to show exactly what has changed.
  
• Translation Memory
  
• Enhanced Auto Translation
  

The upgrade price from Version 2 is likely to be about 25% of new prices.
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[sheitman]

Thanks for the info.

[Infralution]

Version 3 of Globalizer has now been released. Unfortunately including the word count functionality as part of the new Validation Rules did not prove to be good option. We do still have the word count function you requested on our list of things to add. It will probably be added in a later update - perhaps as part of a broader statistics functionality.

See the Release Announcement for more details of the new functionality in Version 3
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[sheitman]

Thank you for that information =)

[Infralution]

Version 4 of Globalizer has now been released and includes extensive new Statistics (including Word Count)
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