What available alternatives are there? I tried looking and I couldn't find a program that does exactly what Boomerang does-lyra
You can try this if you're comfortable with AHK:
I actually used Boomerang at work to check the validity of things that I converted to Spanish. My theory is that if it still makes sense when it's converted back to English, then the grammar must be pretty close. When Boomerang stopped working I found this:
https://www.autohotk....php?f=5&t=40876You can see my correspondence with Teadrinker, who wrote the actual working parts of the code. It's actually Java code, but I use it inside of AHK.
;############## https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40876
{
MsgBox, There is nothing on the
clipboard to translate
. Please select some
text with the mouse
, then try again
. return
}
asEsp
:= GoogleTranslate
(Clipboard, "en", "es")asEng := GoogleTranslate(asEsp, "es", "en")
MsgBox, ~~~~~~~~ As Spanish ~~~~~~~~`n
%asEsp%`n`n`~~~~~~~ Back to English ~~~~~~~`n
%asEng%`n`n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`n
[Esc] to
Cancel.`n
[OK
] to
send translation to
clipboard; then paste as needed via Ctrl+v
GoogleTranslate(str, from := "auto", to := "es") {
static JS := GetJScripObject(), _ := JS.( GetJScript() ) := JS.("delete ActiveXObject; delete GetObject;")
json := SendRequest(JS, str, to, from, proxy := "")
oJSON := JS.("(" . json . ")")
if !IsObject(oJSON[1]) {
}
else {
MainTransText := oJSON[0][0][0]
trans .= "`n+"
obj := oJSON[1][A_Index-1][1]
trans .= (MainTransText = txt ? "" : "`n" txt)
}
}
}
if !IsObject(oJSON[1])
MainTransText := trans := Trim(trans, ",+`n ")
else
trans := MainTransText . "`n+`n" . Trim(trans, ",+`n ")
from := oJSON[2]
trans := Trim(trans, ",+`n ")
Return trans
}
SendRequest(JS, str, tl, sl, proxy) {
ComObjError(false)
http := ComObjCreate("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
( proxy && http.SetProxy(2, proxy) )
http.open( "POST", "https://translate.google.com/translate_a/single?client=t&sl="
. sl . "&tl=" . tl . "&hl=" . tl
. "&dt=at&dt=bd&dt=ex&dt=ld&dt=md&dt=qca&dt=rw&dt=rm&dt=ss&dt=t&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&otf=1&ssel=3&tsel=3&pc=1&kc=2"
. "&tk=" . JS.("tk").(str), 1 )
http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8")
http.SetRequestHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0")
http
.send("q=" . URIEncode
(str
)) http.WaitForResponse(-1)
Return http.responsetext
}
URIEncode(str, encoding := "UTF-8") {
StrPut(str, &var, encoding)
bool := (code > 0x7F || code < 0x30 || code = 0x3D)
UrlStr
.= bool ?
"%" . Format
("{:02X}", code
) :
Chr(code
) }
Return UrlStr
}
GetJScript()
{
script =
(
var TKK = ((function() {
var a = 561666268;
var b = 1526272306;
return 406398 + '.' + (a + b);
})());
function b(a, b) {
for (var d = 0; d < b.length - 2; d += 3) {
var c = b.charAt(d + 2),
c = "a" <= c ? c.charCodeAt(0) - 87 : Number(c),
c = "+" == b.charAt(d + 1) ? a >>> c : a << c;
a = "+" == b.charAt(d) ? a + c & 4294967295 : a ^ c
}
return a
}
function tk(a) {
for (var e = TKK.split("."), h = Number(e[0]) || 0, g = [], d = 0, f = 0; f < a.length; f++) {
var c = a.charCodeAt(f);
128 > c ? g[d++] = c : (2048 > c ? g[d++] = c >> 6 | 192 : (55296 == (c & 64512) && f + 1 < a.length && 56320 == (a.charCodeAt(f + 1) & 64512) ?
(c = 65536 + ((c & 1023) << 10) + (a.charCodeAt(++f) & 1023), g[d++] = c >> 18 | 240,
g[d++] = c >> 12 & 63 | 128) : g[d++] = c >> 12 | 224, g[d++] = c >> 6 & 63 | 128), g[d++] = c & 63 | 128)
}
a = h;
for (d = 0; d < g.length; d++) a += g[d], a = b(a, "+-a^+6");
a = b(a, "+-3^+b+-f");
a ^= Number(e[1]) || 0;
0 > a && (a = (a & 2147483647) + 2147483648);
a `%= 1E6;
return a.toString() + "." + (a ^ h)
}
)
Return script
}
GetJScripObject() {
DllCall("GetTempFileName", Str
, A_Temp, Str
, "AHK", UInt
, 0, Str
, tmpFile
)
(
<component>
<public><method name='eval'/></public>
<script language='JScript'></script>
</component>
), % tmpFile
JS := ObjBindMethod( ComObjGet("script:" . tmpFile), "eval" )
Return JS
}
Set it to a hotkey. Once it's running, select some text, then use the hotkey. It shows the text as Spanish, then converted back to English.
Here is what it shows for the above top post.
---------------------------
Transpan.ahk
---------------------------
~~~~~~~~ As Spanish ~~~~~~~~
Mouser está cada vez va a arreglar esto? Fue un programa muy divertido y útil, pero debido a la nueva API cambia se rompió. Tengo buenos recuerdos de esta pieza de software y es un dolor de traducir de forma manual a través de un montón de idiomas.
~~~~~~~ Back to English ~~~~~~~
Mouser is ever going to fix this? It was a fun and useful program, but because of the new API changes broke. I have fond memories of this piece of software and it is a pain to translate manually through a lot of languages.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[Esc] to Cancel.
[OK] to send translation to clipboard; then paste as needed via Ctrl+v
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------
Hopefully I'm not jinxing to whole darn thing by sharing, but [fingers crossed] it's worked flawlessly for 5 years!
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