R – How to get an application’s GUI translated into other languages

internationalizationlocalizationtranslationuser-interface

I'd like to translate my GUI into other languages. Unfortunately I don't speak Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, or any common language other than English.

The technical hurdles are no problem… what I'm wondering is: How do you get the actual translations?

Amazon's Mechanical Turk? Google Translate? Pay an actual translation company?

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You can try RentACoder.com as well. There's quite a bit of translation work going on there really cheap.

Or you can just blog about it, or depending on your application's availability give the users the possibility to contribute voluntarily.

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If your software is open source you can use Launchpad for translating.

C# – How to update the GUI from another thread

The simplest way is an anonymous method passed into Label.Invoke:

// Running on the worker thread
string newText = "abc";
form.Label.Invoke((MethodInvoker)delegate {
    // Running on the UI thread
    form.Label.Text = newText;
});
// Back on the worker thread

Notice that Invoke blocks execution until it completes--this is synchronous code. The question doesn't ask about asynchronous code, but there is lots of content on Stack Overflow about writing asynchronous code when you want to learn about it.

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