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Method and apparatus to control translatable properties of metadata

  • US 20070226687A1
  • Filed: 06/25/2002
  • Published: 09/27/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A translation locking mechanism comprising:

  • a lock tester to determine whether a translation lock prohibits changes to translatable properties of an object without locking non-translatable properties of the object, wherein the object is part of a software application, and wherein the translatable properties comprise data affected by a language translation;

    an editing tool, wherein the editing tool is configured to permit changes to non-translatable properties of the object without separating the object from the software application and even though the translation lock prohibits changes to the translatable properties; and

    a display system to display data, the display system identifying data that is not editable.

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