Babel

A lightweight, cross-platform library which helps translate text into the target languages.

Babel is used for translations in the Codex add-in for Delphi, and for Mosco.

Features

• Lightweight - Babel is just 3 units: Babel.Types, Babel.Persistence and Babel.Locale
• Compact definition files

How To Use Babel

Create definition files

Use Babelizor to scan your project files for .pas and .dfm and/or .fmx files to create a definition file, and add supported languages. Babel will scan for Caption, Text, Hint and Title properties in form definition files and for resourcestring values in .pas files. If you have an account for the Google Translate API, use the instant translation tool to create translations for your text.

If using instant translation, Babelizor expects a file called options.json in a folder called Babelizor under Public Documents with content like this:

  {
    "TranslateAPIKey" : "AIzaSyAzXXXXXXXXXX7u7pcQ"
  }

where you would replace AIzaSyAzXXXXXXXXXX7u7pcQ with your API key.

This is a brief tutorial on how to create a project, enable the API and get a key.

Using the definition file in your app

Either deploy the definiton file with your app and use the LoadFromFile method, or include your definition file as a resource, and use LoadFromResource. To translate the text in forms and datamodules, use the Translate method when the form or datamodule is created. To translate other text values that are in the definition file, use the Tx method.

Demos

Basic Demo

Demonstrates translation through the use of a resource file (babel.json) created with Babelizor.

Version History

v1.0.0 (Nov 2nd, 2023)

• Initial release