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Source/target language used in the fuzzy search (bug ?)

Philippe Noth

Hi everyone,

I notice a strange behaviour in Passolo 2016, which is really annoying since it slows me down.

Here the fuzzy search for a string works OK, using the source language as expected:

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Then, as soon as I hit Ctrl-Down to go to the next segment, the fuzzy search changes to the target language and becomes useless (it searches using the pre-translated French text):

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Is that a bug ? I can avoid that by grabbing the mouse to select the segments, but is there a solution or a better workaround?

Of course, I cannot "upgrade" to Passolo 2018 since the package is a tbulic16 file.

Philippe
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    Hi everyone,

    I am having the exact same problem with Passolo 2018.

    If anyone found a solution to this issue, please let me know.

    Kind regards,

    Florent
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  • 0 in reply to Florent Madrolle

    This faulty behavior is still present in Passolo 2022. If the caret/focus is in the Target section of the Translation Window when moving to the next segment via Ctrl + Down, Passolo erroneously uses the target section's content to perform a fuzzy match. This is fine when translating untranslated (red) strings, since the target for those is populated with the source text anyway. But it makes translating fuzzy matches a chore.

    For Ctrl + Down, the workaround I'm using is an AutoHotKey script that changes focus to the source before moving to the next segment, and then changes it back to the target afterward:

    ; Make Ctrl + Down use the Source text for fuzzy matching when going to next segment.
    #IfWinActive, ahk_exe psl.exe
    ^Down::
    #IfWinActive, ahk_exe psl16.exe
    ^Down::
    Send, {Tab 2}        ; Changes focus to Source section
    Sleep, 75            ; Increase this if Passolo's UI can't keep up with the keystrokes
    Send, ^{Down}        ; Goes to next segment
    Sleep, 75            ; Increase this if Passolo's UI can't keep up with the keystrokes
    Send, {Tab}{Left}    ; Changes focus back to Target section and moves caret to start of string
    #IfWinActive        
    return
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