var http_request = false;
   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }

      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request.send(parameters);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if(http_request.readyState != 4 ){
      	   document.getElementById("result_area").style.display="inline";
      	   ChangeTxtAlign('displaytext','right');
           document.getElementById('myspan').innerHTML = ' الرجاء الانتظار جاري عملية الترجمة <img src="weather/images/downx.gif"> ';
      }
   
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            document.getElementById("result_area").style.display="inline";
            
            if (document.getElementById("translate_lang").value == 'ar|en') {
            	ChangeTxtAlign('displaytext', 'left');
            } else {
            	ChangeTxtAlign('displaytext', 'right');
            }
            
            
            
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('myspan').innerHTML = result;
         } 
      }
   }

   function translate_text() {
      var poststr = "mytextarea1=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("translate_lang").value ) +
                    "&mytextarea2=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("mytextdiv").value );
      makePOSTRequest('ac4p.php', poststr);
   }


function rtl() {
   document.getElementById("mytextdiv").dir="rtl" 
}
function ltr() {
   document.getElementById("mytextdiv").dir="ltr" 
}
function ChangeTxtAlign(name, align) {
    	if(document.getElementById){
        	obj = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
        	obj[name].style.textAlign = align;
	}
}

function textCounter(divid, maxlimit ) {

	var field2 = document.getElementById(divid);
	if (field2.value.length > maxlimit) {
		field2.value = field2.value.substring(0, maxlimit);
    }
}