Yuri D'Elia wrote: > In article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have several apps, from various sources and various toolkits, that >> attempt this. At the last count (and I counted twice, to be sure) >> exactly 0 of them managed this. Every single one had some text that >> didn't fit it's widget, or widgets that were forced too far out of >> position, or some other basic usability failing. >> >> To be fair, most sort of managed, more or less, most of the time, so it >> all still "works". But it doesn't actually work "right". > > I agree. > > I'm wondering how localization actually works with Cocoa/OSX (never used > the IBuilder). Widgets support automatic or relative positioning, but > I've not noticed an huge amount of GUIs done using either. Most of the > windows are either empty (toolbar and content only) or completely fixed, > like most of the preference panels. > > Setting up localization strings there has the same problems as FLTK, as > far as I can tell. The nice thing about bundles however, is that you can > have different GUIs for different locales, so I presume this the way it > is actually used when needed, though I don't see how this is "efficient" > to maintain in the long term. > > Has anyone experience on this?
Nibs are localized in the application bundle, so you'll see a .lproj subdirectory in the bundle's Resources directory for each language that is supported. As for efficiency, it is faster to load a localized nib than to load a generic nib, localize all of the strings in the nib, and then re- layout the controls. You pay (somewhat) as the developer to keep the nibs synchronized, but there *are* translation tools that can merge nib changes and the separate file approach allows for localized layouts which otherwise require more complex run-time layout engines and localized attributes. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products mike at easysw dot com _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
