(eine Verbindung) ziehen

English translation: drawing {or dragging} a connection

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German term or phrase:(eine Verbindung) ziehen
English translation:drawing {or dragging} a connection
Entered by: Claire Cox

18:03 Jul 12, 2007
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) / wireless connections
German term or phrase: (eine Verbindung) ziehen
My instinct is that this means "establish a connection" in this context:

Bei ziehen einer Verbindung zwischen Fernbedienung 12-fach und einem Aktor öffnet sich ein Auswahlfenster.

However, I've extracted a TM from a similar document and its English translation and the translator has used "draw" - in an otherwise fairly believable translation.

I can't find any corroboration for either of these in the usual places, so thought I'd seek confirmation from the IT experts. These are wireless heating control systems.

To further confuse matters, ziehen comes up again in the context of "Fensterziehen":

Sobald der Selektionsmode aktiviert ist können keine Verbindungen gezogen werden bzw. keine Einstellung in den Geräten mehr vorgenommen werden. Das Popup-Menü eines Geräts ändert sich von den normalen Funktionen zu den Funktionen des Selektionsmode.

Wie im Windows üblich können nun mehrere Geräte selektiert werden, entweder über Ziehen eines Auswahlfensters, STRG+linksklick auf ein Gerät oder über SHIFT+linksklick/Fensterziehen.
Sobald mindestens 2 Geräte selektiert werden gelangt man über Rechtsklick auf ein Gerät ins Popup-Menü des Selektionsmode.

This gets a number of googles for "drag window", which sounds feasible, but I'm not sure how that links to the first use of ziehen.

Any explanations very gratefully received!
Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:21
drawing {or dragging} a connection
Explanation:
This sounds like you are using a GUI to design the system. Think of MSDraw where you pick one of the handles (those open dots at the end of the lines) and you can move one end around without moving the other. Then, you can connect that line by dropping it near another item, if you have your setting right.

I have seen systems where you drop various subsystem components and then connect them in this way.

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jccantrell
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Local time: 02:21
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4drawing {or dragging} a connection
jccantrell
3to drag
Aniello Scognamiglio (X)
3 -1draw up a connection
Kcda


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to drag


Explanation:
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Aniello Scognamiglio (X)
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drawing {or dragging} a connection


Explanation:
This sounds like you are using a GUI to design the system. Think of MSDraw where you pick one of the handles (those open dots at the end of the lines) and you can move one end around without moving the other. Then, you can connect that line by dropping it near another item, if you have your setting right.

I have seen systems where you drop various subsystem components and then connect them in this way.



jccantrell
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draw up a connection


Explanation:
I took it word by word. Of course the word draw is not meant here as drawing but rather an action :

draw (drô) v. <drew, drawn, draw-ing> n.
v.t.
1. to cause to move in a particular
direction by or as if by a pulling
force; pull; drag (often fol. by along,
away, in, out, or off).

Like as in dragging a Window within an OS.









Kcda
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disagree  Kim Metzger: Draw a connection is the English idiom. To draw UP means to draft, formulate.
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