About the Translation Toolkit

The Translation Toolkit is a set of tools designed to help you translate PowerBuilder applications into other languages. It includes a standalone translator tool that is used by the person or group translating the text of the application.

When you use the Toolkit to create a project, a copy of each of your application's source libraries is created for each project. The application's original source libraries are not changed.

How the Toolkit works

You work with the phrases (one or more words of text) in an application. These phrases are in the application’s object properties, controls, and scripts.

You use the tools to:

Using the translated project libraries, you use PowerBuilder to build the translated application.

For more information, see the online Help for the Translation Toolkit.