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Overview

Today the Internet came into the people's life, granting wide opportunities for work, business and communication. Thanks to the Internet, millions of people can communicate with each other regardless of the distance and borders. To communicate faster people use various Internet tools: electronic mail, instant messengers, chats, and others.   The most popular means of communication today is message exchange through Instant Messenger programs, such as ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger . With these programs, you can chat, send messages, files and URLs, play games, or just hang out with your fellow 'Netters' while still surfing the Net. These programs are quite versatile, but bringing down distance barriers, you may face a language barrier. If your partner doesn't speak your language, it will be hard for you to establish a live contact. It is so exiting to chat with people from different counties and to learn how they live and what they dream about.
The IM Translator has been created to fill in the gap in this area. With IM Translator you can translate transmitted and received messages from most popular IM programs on-the-fly. All you have to do is to select a text paragraph in the IM window, and in a second you will get its translation. You can also translate your own messages and send them out.
This program can also be used independently from Instant Messenger for texts translation. Just drag-n-drop or copy and paste the text from any application into the IM Translator window and get an immediate translation.

Working with the program

Getting started
Upon the installation of the program, start the program from the Program menu (Start - > Programs - > IM Translator - > IM Translator). An icon appears on the system tray.
To activate the program, double-click on its icon on the system tray, or click on it with the right mouse button and select Main from the IM Translator menu.
The IM Translator Main window can also be called up with the hot keys.
If you want the program to be started automatically at Windows startup, check the box Startup in Options Window. The Options window can be opened by clicking the right mouse button on the IM Translator icon of the system tray.

Main Window

The Main Window is intended for translation of texts from the IM Programs, as well as from other applications. You may also use IM Translator to translate any text entered from the keyboard.You must be connected to the Internet in order to use IM Translator.
The Main Window is split into two parts by the toolbar: the dialog field (upper part) and the translation field (lower part). The dialog field displays the message dialog. A selected text from Instant Messenger is translated into your language and then appears in the upper dialog field in italic. Its translation is displayed in a blue color.
The translation field can also be used for translation of any text. Enter a text from the keyboard, copy and paste or drag-n-drop from any program, select a desired language pair and press the button "Translate to ..." or You will see the translation in the translation field, and the original text with its translation in the dialog field.
The toolbar provides the following options:
Copy - Copy content of the translation window.
Paste - Paste content of the clipboard to the translation window.
Undo - Undo translation
Copy translation to clipboard. - This is a toggle button and has its "on" and "off" states.With the "on" button, the program copies the translation results to the Clipboard automatically.
Clear log - Clear the upper dialog field.
- Display the language selection.
and Translate to ... - Translate into a selected language.
- IM to…- Indicate the language to translate from IM when using the hot keys option. Has two states: left and right.
- Show the selection of available language pairs.
- Stay On Top - Set the translation window on top of all applications.

The toolbar is duplicated by the shortcut menu. This menu is available when you right-click within the IM window.

Options Window


The Options Window allows you to set up the main features of the program.

Startup - determines whether the program will be started automatically upon the Windows startup. After startup, the program will launch and display a small program icon on the system tray.

Show Both Languages in Log - during the translation session the upper dialog field of the program Main Window displays by default only the source dialog (log). If you check this option, the Main Window will display the original message and its translation in a different color.

Russian as Translit - this option, if checked, allows you to represent the Russian text with latin characters (transliterate).
From Russian - this option checked, the program translates either from the original Russian or the transliterated Russian text.
To Russian - this option checked, the program translates into Russian transliterated language, i.e. displays the translation with latin characters.

The transliteration module uses a conversion table especially adapted for the translation needs.

Hot keys - this option allows you to set up hot keys to activate IM Translator. Upon its activation, IM Translator is ready for translation. The automatic translation function is available for ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!Messenger only.
You may choose to work either with the mouse or the keyboard.

When working with the mouse, select any combination of Shift, Ctrl and Alt. The default selection is Alt. The program will be activated immediately after holding the hot key combination and selecting the text with the mouse.

When working with the keyboard, select any key combination of Shift, Ctrl and Alt plus any alphanumeric key (the default hot key combination is Alt+D). The program will be activated immediately upon selecting the text and pressing the hot keys.

Right To Left - the key combination Ctrl+Left arrow duplicates the translation button, which translate "from right to left". You can customize this option by setting up new hot key combination. Left To Right - the key combination Ctrl+Right arrow duplicates the translation button, which translate "from left to right". You can customize this option by setting up new hot key combination.

Working with IM Translator
To start working with the program, take the following steps:
1. Make sure you are connected to the Internet. The IM Translator uses Web translation servers to perform translation.
2. Launch IM Translator from the IM Translator Program group (Start-> Programs-> IM Translator -> IM Translator). An icon appears on the system tray.
3. To activate the program, double-click on its icon , or click on the icon with the right mouse button and select Main from the IM Translator menu.
4. You can also activate IM Translator with the hot keys.

To start translation:
1. Choose a desired language pair from the IM Translator toolbar .
2. If working with the keyboard, select a text from Instant Messenger, then press the hot keys.
3. If working with the mouse, hold the corresponding hot keys and select a text from Instant Messenger(IM) to be translated.
4. The text selected from instant messenger will be automatically translated and will appear in the upper dialog field in italic. Its translation is displayed in a blue color. The IM button of the toolbar shows the translation direction.
5. You can translate your own text in the translation field and copy it back to IM or any other applications. Type, paste or drag-n-drop the text to the IM Translator lower field and press the Translate or button. Once translated, your original message appears in the upper dialog field along with its translation displayed in a blue color.

Uninstalling IM Translator
To remove the program from your computer, use the Unistall item in the IM Translator Program group ( Start->Programs-> IM Translator->Uninstall).

About
This window provides information about the program, its version and release. You can also find the contact information and the technical support address. You can send email to get the program support or open suggested web sites directly from this window.