Manual creation for a program product

摘要

Embodiments relate to supporting creation of a manual of a program product. An aspect includes recording into a recording medium that can be accessed by the computer a screen character string, a translated character string where the screen character string has been translated to another language, or an identifier associated with the screen character string or the translated character string, displayed on a display device by the program product. Another aspect includes recording into the recording medium attribute information of the screen character string or the translated character string. Yet another aspect includes maintaining consistency between the screen character string or the translated character string and a character string that is displayed on a display device by an application for creating the manual, using the screen character string, the translated character string or identifier recorded on the recording medium and the attribute information.

主权项

1. A method for supporting creation of a manual of a program product, the method implemented by a processing unit, and the method comprising:
receiving, via an editor creating the manual, a start tag of a user-interface element of the program product for which the manual is being created; in response to receipt of the start tag, activating an acquisition mode of a user-interface of the program product, wherein, in the acquisition mode, character strings of the user-interface are displayed with respective master-identifiers appended; receiving a selection of a character string corresponding to the user-interface element; recording, in the editor, adjacent to the start tag of the user-interface element, the character string and the master-identifier; receiving, via the editor, an end tag of the user-interface element; in response to receipt of the end tag, deactivating the acquisition mode of the user-interface of the program product; receiving, via the editor, a description of the user-interface element; detecting a category of the user-interface element, and a screen position of the user-interface element; in response to receipt of the description, recording an entry in a screen character string control table, the entry comprising, the character string, the master-identifier associated with the character string, a language identifier of the character string, a category information of the user-interface element, the screen position of the user-interface element, and a positional information where the character string is recorded for being displayed on the user interface element; and maintaining consistency between the character string displayed on the user-interface element and in the manual.