On Jan 28, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
I've got this little freeware app for backing up files from an iPod,
and one of my french users has asked about localizing it.
I've read through the past threads on the list, and I've got a
decent custom property scheme working for all the bits and pieces in
the UI.
However, I'm wondering about the menus - this is on OS X.
Take the 'Edit' menu. Setting the label of btn "Edit" to
"Édition" (extracted from my cp set) at start up is no problem, but
then I need to replace the menuItems "Cut, Copy, Paste" with their
localized counterparts, and also respond to the menuPick messages
for each. This seems quote complicated. Has anyone some advice they
can give me?
Mark,
What I've done in the past is have one function that returns a string
for a UI element. The parameter passed is the english equivalent. So
to assign the edit menu label to the French equivalent I would do this:
set the label of button "Edit" to getLangStr("edit")
Basically I have on custom property set that getLangStr uses to lookup
the translation for the current language.
I then use the same function to build up the menus and respond to the
menupick message (since you can't rely on menuhistory with hierarchal
menus):
on menuPick pChosen
switch pChosen
case getLangStr("Cut")
break
case getLangStr("Copy")
break
-- etc.
end switch
end menuPick
So that is one way to approach it.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Learning Systems
www.bluemangolearning.com -
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