Manual creation for a program product

A system for supporting creation of a manual of a program product, the system comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• receive, 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, activate 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;
• receive a selection of a character string corresponding to the user-interface element;
• record, in the editor, adjacent to the start tag of the user-interface element, the character string and the master-identifier;
• receive, via the editor, an end tag of the user-interface element;
• in response to receipt of the end tag, deactivate the acquisition mode of the user-interface of the program product;
• receive, via the editor, a description of the user-interface element;
• detect a category of the user-interface element, and a screen position of the user-interface element;
• in response to receipt of the description, record 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, the category 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
• maintain consistency between the character string displayed on the user-interface element and in the manual.

A computer program product for supporting creation of a manual of a program product, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, which when executed by a computer processor, causes the computer processor to implement:

• 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, the category 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;
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• maintaining consistency between the character string displayed on the user-interface element and in the manual.