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John Patrick Whelan

David Mowatt

Terry Farrell

Colin Fitzpatrick

Paul Barnes

Barry McHugh

Andre Michael McQuaid

John Gerard Lane

Robert Patrick Doyle

Anatoliy Burukhin

David Ahs

Ayman Aldahleh

Javier L Larrinaga

Robert Redlich

When a user interface cursor hovers over a user interface item, a determination is made as to whether the user interface item has an associated screentip. If the user interface item has an associated screentip, text associated with the screentip is identified, a translated text string is located for the text string, and the translated text string is displayed in the screentip. If the user interface item does not have an associated screentip, a determination is made as to whether the user interface item contains a text string. If so, a determination is made as to whether a translated text string is available that corresponds to the text in the user interface item. If so, the translated text string is displayed in a screentip for the user interface item.

Dynamic screentip language translation

Tools and techniques for unified formats for resources and repositories for managing localization are described herein. The unified resource repositories may include representations of any number of resources, the resources representing textual information that is displayable in user interface presented by software applications. The representations of the resources may include respective data tags that are associated with name attributes identifying the resources, value tags providing values of the resources. Meta tags provide recursive nesting mechanisms for associating the name attribute and the value tag with additional instances of name attributes and value tags.

Unified formats for resources and repositories for managing localization

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John Patrick Whelan