Boomerang still not working

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apollyon094:
Is Mouser ever going to patch this? It was a really fun program and useful but due to new API changes it broke. I have fond memories of this piece of software and it's a pain to manually translate through a bunch of languages.

hornet:
As an Aussie, all I can say is "just throw it" and it should come back to you. :-[

ridhmax:
I think its time to move on with better available alternatives boomerang is classic now

lyra:
I think its time to move on with better available alternatives boomerang is classic now
-ridhmax (May 05, 2020, 06:48 AM)
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What available alternatives are there? I tried looking and I couldn't find a program that does exactly what Boomerang does

kunkel321:
What available alternatives are there? I tried looking and I couldn't find a program that does exactly what Boomerang does-lyra (August 11, 2020, 09:55 PM)
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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.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40876
You 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.

--- Code: Autohotkey ---#NoEnv#SingleInstance force;############## https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=40876 clipboard =Send, ^cClipWait, 2if ErrorLevel{ 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 Clipboard := asEsp 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]) { Loop % oJSON[0].length trans .= oJSON[0][A_Index - 1][0] } else { MainTransText := oJSON[0][0][0] Loop % oJSON[1].length { trans .= "`n+" obj := oJSON[1][A_Index-1][1] Loop % obj.length { txt := obj[A_Index - 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") { VarSetCapacity(var, StrPut(str, encoding)) StrPut(str, &var, encoding) While code := NumGet(Var, A_Index - 1, "UChar") { 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() { VarSetCapacity(tmpFile, (MAX_PATH := 260) << !!A_IsUnicode, 0) DllCall("GetTempFileName", Str, A_Temp, Str, "AHK", UInt, 0, Str, tmpFile) FileAppend, ( <component> <public><method name='eval'/></public> <script language='JScript'></script> </component> ), % tmpFile JS := ObjBindMethod( ComObjGet("script:" . tmpFile), "eval" ) FileDelete, % tmpFile 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.

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Transpan.ahk
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~~~~~~~~ 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.

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[Esc] to Cancel.
[OK] to send translation to clipboard; then paste as needed via Ctrl+v
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OK
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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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