> But therefore need access to all Forms in the current opened
> Laz-Project inside the IDE. How can i solve this Problem.
Delphi had OpenTools API. Maybe Lazarus IDE has similar?
> Has someone any tips i could do that ?
> Are some Prople interested in having such a translation tool
> inside Lazarus ?
Problem is how you would catch up with newer versions of Lazarus. Your tool
would need to be in source form maybe and people would reinstall the package
with every new version of the IDE (or it could come with the IDE as built-in
if it's good enough)
> I could generate the file by runtime too, if the
> translation-file isnt existend, but i would like to have it
> as a seperate tool inside the IDE of Lazarus.
I'd like that too. Calling it from inside the IDE as an external tool might
also do the job, if the tools actions have an option to save project before
calling the external tool and have special vars like in Delphi to pass to
the command-line of the called external tool
> Or is it better to make a component with a component editor to do it ?
The loader of the translations could be a component so that one could do MUI
(multi-user interface) like GUIs and switch language at runtime on the fly
(localization used in FPC/Laz doesn't usually work that way I think, but you
statically compile the language so you have many executables/libs, not a
single one with resource dlls, but I might be wrong on it)
> There i have the next problem. I know how to create
> Components but i don't know how to create a component-editor...
Are they like in Delphi? If so, can sent you examples of mine
> What is the best format to store the Translation File. I
> don't know if i should use XML. Maybe it's senseful to make
> it transform to a po file to make it possible to edit by
> poEdit or similar applications.
Indeed an XSL transform would be nice to make .po etc. Could produce borland
translation files maybe too someday
> Should i use one file per Language or is it better to have
> one big file for all languages.
Per language is better I feel
See below for some more stuff on localization:
----------- reply on this list:
> Is there any document/help on how to localize (or even better
> internationalize [have it dynamically load the correct localized
> resources])
> the Lazarus IDE and Lazarus apps in general?
>
> In Delphi you use resourcestring (I see Lazarus/FPC also accepts
it),
> but not sure how to use that without the Delphi ITE (the
translation
> editor & related wizards) and if Lazarus works exactly the same
way
George,
You can see how it's implemented in
./lazarus/ideidetranslations.pas. The FPC documentation is an excelent
reference :
http://community.freepascal.org:10000/docs-html/prog/progch9.html#x204-20800
09
HTH Darius
----------- following is from FPC or Laz online docs I think:
Quick Start for translators:
For example finnish translation:
Search for all *.fi.po files. They are simple text files, with an easy
format.
Edit them with programs like kbabel.
Run 'sh localize.sh' to update translations.
Send the updated xxx.fi.po files to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do not send diffs for .po files.
Now the background:
The <lazarusdir>/languages directory contains all the stuff for
internationalization of the lazarus IDE.
There are a few other directories for the codetools and the lcl. They work
all the same. All language files can easily be updated with the
<lazarusdir>/localize.sh or <lazarusdir>\localize.bat script.
All text and messages used in the IDE (except the special designer units)
should be placed into the unit lazarusidestrconsts.pas. This unit uses a
resourcestring section, so that the compiler will create the
<lazarusdir>/lazarusidestrconsts.rst file.
Since this is a fpc-only format it must be converted with the rstconv
program:
cd <lazarusdir>/languages
rstconv -i ../lazarusidestrconsts.rst -o lazaruside.po
Hint: this is done by <lazarusdir>/localize.sh or <lazarusdir>\localize.bat.
This will create the file lazaruside.po, which should be translated in all
required languages to a lazaruside.xx.po file. For the xx see the gettext
unit in the procedure TranslateResourceStrings.
german: lazaruside.de.po
russian (KOI8-R): lazaruside.ru.po
spanish: lazaruside.es.po
french: lazaruside.fr.po
italian: lazaruside.it.po
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