On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:34:33 +0200 Luk Vandelaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 23:40, A.J. Venter wrote: > > Moreover this is clearly not an ideal setup for them since the > > grammer would require the username to be elsewhere in the sentence > > sometimes (how do I handle that), and there is the even more > > complex part where I need to set a number of captions for a > > different form out of this unit later on: > > > > TrayIcon1.Hint := IntToStr(Units)+' Units remaining'; > > Popup1.Caption := IntToStr(Units)+' Units remaining'; > > Popup1.Panel1.Color := RGBToColor(227,108,42); > > Writeln(Units); > > Popup1.TextY.Caption := 'Welcome user '+LoggedInUser+LineEnding; > > Popup1.TextY.Caption := Popup1.TextY.Caption+'You have > > '+IntToStr(Units)+' time units left'+LineEnding; > > > > All of that should obviously ALSO be translated. > > > > How do I do that part please ? > > By using the Format function. For example: > > resourcestring > rsWelcomeMsg = > 'Welcome user %s'+LineEnding+'You have %d time units left'; > ... > Popup1.TextY.Caption := format(rsWelcomeMsg, [LoggedInUser, Units]); > > A translation in Dutch could then be > 'Welkom, je hebt nog %1:d tijd eenheden over, %0:s.' > which has the order of the parameters switched. To create such resourcestrings easily you can use Tools > Make Resource String'. For example Popup1.TextY.Caption := 'Welcome user '+LoggedInUser+LineEnding; Place the cursor on the string 'Welcome' and execute the tool. See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/IDE_Window:_Make_ResourceString Mattias _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
