Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2008, 22:54 +0200 schrieb Benoit Minisini:
> On mardi 23 septembre 2008, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 23.09.2008, 12:43 -0500 schrieb M0E Lnx:
> > > Can anyone think of a way to apply a translation to an application
> > > that's already running?
> > >
> > > An example would be a wizard that starts out in English, and at the
> > > first step offers the user to choose their language.
> > > After the user selects his/her language, the rest of the application
> > > get translated to the selected language.
> > >
> > > I'm not talking about creating the translations... I already know how
> > > to do that... This is assuming there is a translated version for the
> > > listed languages.
> > >
> > > Anybody?
> >
> > Salut,
> >
> > one way is, all text to show, is stored in a Databasetable, only the
> > text which is used before the DB is connected,is burned in, and in
> > english.
> >
> > Here a simple form of that Table:
> > lang is GB,FR,DE or so
> > token is an unique token-key
> > text is the text in the language, fix by lang
> >
> > So in Form_Open or so you m ake :
> >
> > PUBLIC SUB Form_Open()
> > DIM rTest AS Result
> > rTest = meConn.Handle.Find("tblLang", "token = &1 and lang = &2",
> > "Label1",myLang)
> > Label1.Text = rTest!Text
> > rTest = meConn.Handle.Find("tblLang", "token = &1 and lang = &2",
> > "Label2",myLang)
> > Label2.Text = rTest!Text
> > ...... and so on .....
> > END
> >
> > Do not forget all other texts use in messages, printouts and so on.
>
> My god... You have a Windows background, don't you? :-)
>
> Gambas has an integrated translation system based on the standard GNU tools.
> No need to reinvent the wheel there.
>
> Anyway, here is a little demo of how to change the application language at
> runtime:
>
> PUBLIC SUB Main()
>
> DIM sLang AS String
>
> DO
> PRINT "Enter language code (fr, es, en...): ";
> LINE INPUT sLang
> System.Language = sLang
> PRINT ("Hello")
> LOOP
>
> END
>
> Of course, you must translate the "Hello" string in the IDE to see it
> translated!
>
> Beware that strings are not translated "on the fly". If a form is opened, you
> must destroy it and recreate it to see the new translations. In other words,
> strings are translated when they are used.
>
Yes I know that gambas uses gettext.
But I don't like, that we have to recompile after changes made
in *.po files.
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