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Need help with a script to confirm segments in TWS XLIFF Editor

Stepan Konev

Dear translating programmers,
Could you please help me make a script that presses Alt+[Numpad_Subtract] and then presses Enter when a pop-up window appears.
Using another script from Nora Diaz, I made a script that automatically confirms segments in TWS XLIFF Editor by pressing Alt+[Numpad_Subtract]. (Background: I translated an xlz file in SDL Trados Studio 2021 and need to re-confirm all segments in TWS XLIFF Editor.)
Here is the script (a first half):
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#IfWinActive ahk_exe xliffeditor.exe
!NumpadSub::
InputBox,Var,Confirm segments automatically, How many times do you want to run the sequence?
loop, % Var
{
Send !{NumpadSub}
Sleep 1000
}
#IfWinActive
return
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Now I need a second part of this script that presses Enter. When the said pop-up window appears, 'Yes' is already selected by default. Since I verify my translation in Studio with F8, I have read all the messages and don't need further control. Therefore, all I need is just pressing Enter (or clicking Yes) for every instance. I want it to be pressed automatically without my control so that I could just run the sequence and go to have a cup of tea. Any clue?Screenshot of Trados Studio XLIFF Editor with a pop-up window titled 'Problems found' indicating an error 'Space AFTER placeholder DIFFER in translation Tag: bpt; id: 6'. The 'Yes' button is highlighted with a red arrow and text overlay instructing to 'Press Enter when this window pops up.'

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[edited by: Trados AI at 4:25 AM (GMT 0) on 5 Mar 2024]
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    Though there is a way to program such a script, TWS Xliff Editor offers this very feature right in the Batch operations... Just go to Translation Workspace menu > Batch Operations > Add to TM tab, addyour file(s), select the TM and languages, and press Add to TM... Done!
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    Not tested, but this might work:

    WinWaitActive, Problems found,,1
    if !ErrorLevel
        Send, {Enter}

    WinWaitActive waits for 1 second. Maybe you can decrease this TimeOut parameter to 0.5 or something like that to speed up the process.
  • 0 in reply to Daniel Ernwein

    Hi Daniel,
    Thank you for your input. I didn't know I could do that. I will definitely use this option next time. However, this resolves only the first part of my task: add translations to TM. But then I need those translations from TM inserted in my target files. I cannot use files directly from Studio because Studio (and any other CAT tool other than TWS XLIFF Editor) changes the original file structure somehow. That is why I have to click Alt+NumpadSub through all the segments. As far as I understand, I could use Auto Translate (a synonym of Pre-Translate in TWS XLIFF Editor) for that, but I am not sure if it inserts all segments without skipping anything. In Studio, when you pretranslate a file, even 100% matches may turn 99% and be skipped (for formatting reasons for example or somehow else) when I select 100% as a minimum match value. 
    Also, I want to understand how to handle such pop-up windows in general. Just in case I may need this for some other purposes. So, I find your tip very useful because it does resolve what I need to resolve. But I still appreciate some sort of script for such pop-up windows. Thanks again.
  • 0 in reply to Jesús Prieto

    Great! Thank you Jesús. Your suggestion works fine. Exactly what I need.
  • 0 in reply to Stepan Konev

    The Auto Translate tab in TW XLIFF Editor works a bit the same way as a pretranslation in Studio...It will insert all found translations and leave empty segments where no (partial) match is found. Anyway, the best way for you to understand is to try the feature by yourself!
  • 0 in reply to Daniel Ernwein
    Daniel Ernwein said:
    the best way for you to understand is to try the feature by yourself

    Sure, I tried. It skipped 2 segments (out of 2244). That is why I posted my question here. Thanks again.