[Gambas-user] Translating application

[Leonardo Miliani]

Rob Kudla ha scritto:
> On Tue April 25 2006 11:28, Leonardo Miliani wrote:
>> I would like to follow a more professional way, getting the
>> user the ability to choose the interface language using the
>> program menu (i.e., Tools/Language and then English/Italian)
>> and having the interface language translated "on the run".
>> How can I get this?
> 
> This is actually a less professional way (reminds me of video 
> games and early Windows 3.x software, before setting the 
> language in the operating system was common.)  
> 
> Nonetheless, the way to do what you want is the same way we did 
> it back in the early 90's.... put placeholder text in all your 
> controls (for example, the name of the control or a shortened 
> version of the text to be displayed) and loop through them 
> replacing the placeholder with the language-appropriate string 
> when you display each form or change the setting.  You can store 
> the strings in an ini file or database or whatever you like. 
> 
> You'll probably want to mark the project as "not translatable" to 
> avoid any fights between your app and Gambas' own translation 
> support.... and since, after all, it won't be translatable in 
> any standard way.
> 
> Rob
> 
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Thanks for your answer.
Let me understand how the translation works in Gambas...
If I create an application that is tranlatable, then Gambas get the work 
to translate it when it runs it? I have just to create the translation 
strings for some languages?

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