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Software / Sharp's Photostorage

« on: February 26, 2005, 02:53:05 pm »

You're great! How could you do this? Can you teach me?

As mentioned in earlier posts, many programs abstract the text information from the program to make translation easier.  This method is for the cases when they don't.

It wasn't very difficult to do, but it was time consuming.  You use an hex editor program to just replace the japanese characters in the program with whatever you want.  If you've never used a hex editor before, it allows you to edit binary files.  Basically, you just open up the program file in your hex editor, find the string you want to edit, then change it.  The important thing is not to exceed the size of the original string.  If the new string is shorter than the original, pad the rest of the space with NULL characters (00 in hex).  (You'll notice there are already null characters at the end of each string.  This is because the null tells the program where the string stops.)

If you've never done anything like this before, copy the /opt/QtPalmtop/bin/photostorage file to a desktop machine, open it up with a hex editor, then search for some of the words you see in the program.  A visual is worth a thousand words.

However, I can help on editing those image buttons to English. Please tell me what I should do. Thank you.
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Great.  Below is a link to a zip file of the images, both the japanese originals and my edits.  Each of my edits needs english text where the japanese appears, preferably in the same color/style.


Thanks.

d.

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Software / Sharp's Photostorage

« on: February 20, 2005, 07:46:44 pm »

Man, you're damn too patient to be able to do that [div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=67945\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

It was a good excuse to procrastinate on my other work!
Actually, it wasn't too bad once I got in the rhythm.  I'm happy to do it again should the need arise.

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Aw, shucks.  

d.

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Software / Sharp's Photostorage

« on: February 19, 2005, 09:35:55 pm »

Ok, below is a link to an english ipk of the Photo Storage program. But first, some caveats:

I don't speak any Japanese so,

  1. I used babelfish to figure out what was being said.  Sometimes this didn't help much and I got a bit creative.

  2. I'm sure there are places where my wording sucks.

  3. I haven't translated the documentation.

  4. Because of the way this was done, the translation could not really exceed the number of japanese characters in the original.  There were only a few times when this came up, but if you wonder about some word abbreviations, this is probably why.

  5. There may be some dialogs (particularly ones I couldn't easily see, like some errors) where the text is too long for the box.  If you find one, let me know which one and where the line break should be.

  If you find anything that sounds awkward, please don't hesitate to suggest something better.

Also, as I mentioned in a previous post, several images used had japanese actually in the image.  At this point I just used GIMP to remove the japanese, but did not replace it with any english. First, I had no easy way to translate it.  Second, my attempts to put some text there looked sophomoric.  If someone has the ability to do this and send me the updated images I will replace them. Otherwise, I'm leaving my edited ones in because I find the japanese distracting. (No offense to anyone.)

Enjoy!

http://dave.maddockfamily.com/photostorage_1.0.0-en_arm.ipk

BTW, I noticed several strings which seemed to infer an integration with the mail program (ie--making attachments).  Anyone know anything about this?  Does this work on the C3000? If so,  can we package the updated mail client for cacko?


Dave

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Software / Sharp's Photostorage

« on: February 18, 2005, 10:42:23 am »

Update: I've got about 75% of the program translated.  Using babelfish on the documentation was enough to figure out most of it.  There are a few error dialogs that I'm unsure about though.

I will post an updated ipk over the weekend.


Dave.

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Software / Sharp's Photostorage

« on: February 17, 2005, 04:53:39 pm »

Unfortunately, all messages all Japanese inside, so it cannot be easily translated to English...

Thanks for the ipk.  It'd be great to have an english version of this program.  I've been playing around with a hex editor and have translated a few of the menus based on what happens, but I don't speak japanese.  If someone can send me or post 'real' translations, I will go through the binary and implement them.  In some places (like the buttons) the text is actually just part of an image and these will need to be photoshopped.


Dave.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Help Documentation

« on: February 07, 2005, 10:52:28 am »

First, fantastic work with Cacko 1.22!  IMO, this is the best rom out there (at least for my C760).

In a quest to optimize my productivity, I've been trying to learn as many keyboard shortcuts as possible to minimize my stylus use (and just discovered the default keyhelper stuff!).  In so doing, I also noticed that the cacko-help ipk has no documentation for many apps that "come standard" in the rom (most notably for me: Netfront).

I thought that updating/writing some of the "missing" documentation (both in the ipk and as an html manual) would be a good way that I could contribute (my programming skills aren't ready for prime-time yet, I'm afraid).

Would this help out?  If so, would anyone like to join in?


Dave.

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Cxx0 Hardware / Audio Problems

« on: February 02, 2005, 10:01:35 am »

I'm having the same problem with my 760 and am also stuck without a warranty (bought mine off ebay).

After hours of searching through the forums, I have yet to find anything but indirect references to repairs through Sharp.  Is there anyone out there that can give more detailed information about getting a repair when you have no warranty?

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Sharp ROMs / Using The Z As An Actual Pda

« on: November 28, 2004, 03:52:27 pm »

I'm giving ZMacSync a try on my Mac.

http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=ZMacSync

It purports to sync into iCal.

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Software / Java on the Zaurus SL-C3000

« on: November 14, 2004, 02:37:16 pm »

Nice.  I was thinking along these lines for the Netfront browser, but in reverse: creating an ipk from the C3000 to install Netfront 3.1 on the CXX0 Zaurus.

Any gracious C3000 owner willing to give this a try?

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Brand new camera card for $14.95

« on: October 20, 2004, 12:07:01 pm »

comp-u-plus appears all out of stock now, but I found another site selling this for $19.95 with free shipping:

http://www.streetprices.com/Electronics/PD...a/SP838134.html