Barry McHugh
Microsoft
8 Papers
144 Citations
Barry McHugh is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Data structure & Software. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 8 publications.
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Papers
Patent
Safe, secure resource editing for application localization with automatic adjustment of application user interface for translated resources
Barry McHugh,David Ahs,Jan-Roelof Falkena,Robert Grimes,Terry Farrell,Alexei Soloveitchik +5 more
- 24 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present methods, systems and computer-readable media for external localization of a software product, which involves loading a base product having one or more calls to an operating system (or an API) to load language specific data.
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Patent
Method and system for automatically identifying and marking subsets of localizable resources
Barry McHugh,Jan-Roelof Falkena,Robert Grimes,Terry Farrell,David Ahs,Alexei Soloveitchik +5 more
- 24 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a safe set of resources that can be used for external localization of a software product is identified by detecting one or more calls to an operating system (or an API) to load language specific data.
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Patent
Parsing unstructured resources
Barry McHugh,Terry Farrell +1 more
- 05 Apr 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a data structure that contains a number of elements, each element including position information for a data portion in the unstructured resource, and using this position information, data portions are located from the UR and processed and the locating and processing steps are repeated for each element in the data structure.
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Safe, secure resource editing for application localization with language fallback
Barry McHugh,Jan-Roelof Falkena,Robert Grimes,Terry Farrell,David Ahs,Alexei Soloveitchik +5 more
- 20 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this article, the calls are intercepted after a resource is loaded into a Resource loader, and queried whether the resource is identified in a restricted resource list such as a code signed dynamic linked library.
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Dynamic screentip language translation
Colin Fitzpatrick,John Patrick Whelan,Robert Patrick Doyle,John Lane,Barry McHugh,Terry Farrell,Paul Barnes,Andre McQuaid,David Mowatt +8 more
- 10 Jun 2009
TL;DR: In this article, a determination is made as to whether a translated text string is available that corresponds to the text in the user interface item, and if so, it is displayed in a screentip.
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