About Globalyzer
Lingoport’s Globalyzerr was designed to bring internationalization to the forefront and facilitate making software world-ready a priority. See for yourself how Globalyzer generates an assessment of internationalization readiness and applications for real-time i18n detection, validation and resolution by requesting a free trial of Globalyzer.
Contents
Getting Started
The following videos introduce Globalyzer: Globalyzer Quick Tutorial organizes the videos below in one logical sequence.
Creating a Project in Globalyzer
Scanning Code and Refining Rules
Language Support
Globalyzer allows users to scan ActionScript, C/C++ (Windows, ANSI), Objective C, Qt, Java, C#, Delphi, Visual Basic (Classic, .NET), PHP, HTML (in various web files), DB Scripts (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL), Perl, VBScript, JavaScript, XML, and MXML source code for internationalization issues and will assist you in fixing those issues.
Globalyzer is flexible in its programming language support and can be adapted to support any language not listed.
FAQ
Further information: FAQ
Licensing
Globalyzer can be licensed in a hosted account configuration, where Lingoport hosts the Globalyzer server, or as a Team server, hosted within your company’s network. Globalyzer is licensed based on organizational use as internationalization is a team development activity and ongoing process. Please contact sales@lingoport.com for more information.
You can also try Globalyzer with a Demo Account. Demo Accounts have two limitations: 1) Globalyzer limits the number of internationalization issues it will report on to approximately 100. 2) You will not be able to see or modify Locale-Sensitive Methods for your Globalyzer Rule Sets.
Release Notes
The following lists new features in the Globalyzer 4.1.1 release.
This release includes various bug fixes and the following new features.
- Additional options when pseudo-localizing your resource files:
- Pseudo-localize all your base resource files at one time by using the new Localize All button.
- Use the new Start and End fields to specify characters to be displayed before and after each string. This helps you quickly identify layout issues where the full string is not fitting. For example [String]
- You can also specify that each character of the string itself be replaced by an accented character for easier differentiation from English strings. For example Šţŕîñĝ
- Support for Delphi RC resource file type: The Delphi language requires its own version of the RC resource file type. Upon string externalization, a .pas file is created and updated, along with the .h and .rc files.
- .NET Tutorial: To accompany our Java tutorial, the .NET tutorial takes your through the basic steps involved in internationalizing a simple .NET Web application.
The following lists new features in the Globalyzer 4.1 release.
With this release, we have added features to streamline the scanning and filtering process, enhance resource file management, and improve overall scanning efficiency.
- Refine your Rule Set from within the Client: The Globayzer Client now allows you to create both filter and detection rules, rescan your code to see their effects, and update the Rule Set on the server when you are satisfied with the results. This Scan Result driven approach to fine-tuning your Rule Set should help you significantly streamline your scanning and filtering process.
- Prioritize your internationalization work: Globalyzer now prioritizes its locale-sensitive method, general pattern, and static file reference detections (in addition to embedded string detections implemented in version 3.5), helping you focus on the most likely issues first. These priority settings can be customized. You’ll see the priority breakdown both on screen and in the many reports that are provided for you to track and manage your progress.
- Retain and prioritize strings passed to specified methods: Rule Sets now include a new detection, called String Method Patterns. This feature allows you to specifically identify methods that are passed strings that would be displayed to the end user. For example, in javascript we have added confirm, in C# Show, and in java JLabel. By identifying these types of methods and configuring them in your Rule Set, you can set the priority for these string detections and ensure that they are addressed during your internationalization process.
- Disable Scan Feature: Scans can now be disabled. Disabled scans can be configured but are not scanned (automatically or manually) and the scan results are not available/displayed. This feature is useful for limiting the amount of rescanning that occurs when configuring scans. The user can focus on one scan, disabling the others.
- All resource types now support group mode: In group mode, externalized strings are grouped by file in the resource file.
- All resource types now support comments: Comments can be added to resource files and will be preserved during subsequent string externalizations.
Globalyzer 4.0 takes advantage of the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment. The Globalyzer 4.0 Workbench can be installed as a stand-alone application or as an Eclipse 3.7 plugin. This new architecture means you’ll be able to check out source, scan and fix internationalization issues with Globalyzer, build and run with your modifications, and check in your changes, all within your development environment!
Here are only some of the new capabilities you'll have with Globalyzer 4.0:
- Interact with source code repositories from the Workbench: CVS is included with the Globalyzer Workbench; plug-in for other source control systems can be easily added.
- Manage multiple Globalyzer Projects from within the Workbench: Just click on each Globalyzer Project in the Explorer Window to switch projects.
- More powerful searching: Search results are now in their own window for easy management.
- New Resource File Editor: Create and edit your locale-specific resource files and check for duplicate, missing and unused resource keys.
- Improved Globalyzer Help: To ensure that you have full use of Globalyzer, we've added several kinds of help - Context sensitive, Cheat Sheets, as well as an extensive online Help System - all within the Workbench.
- More powerful Project Explorer window: With Eclipse's underlying support, Globalyzer's features can be applied at subdirectory and file levels, giving you much more flexibility in how you do your internationalization work.
- Enhanced editing: Enjoy the full editing capabilities of an IDE from within Globalyzer.
- Plug-in extensibility: Add additional functionality to your internationalization and application development environment using Eclipse's plug-in support.
Be sure to check the help and run a tutorial to get a better idea of Globalyzer 4.0's enhanced usability.
