On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:55 AM, David Bovill wrote:
Structurally I am thinking of associating each dialogue with a
unique object (usually the object that calls the dialog = the
target) and being able to call / reuse the same dialogue from
another object using a custom property .- something like:
- put the answer_Dialogue["German"] of btn "Question" into
someAnswer
Anyone have any advice or code to simplify this?
Here are my thoughts on this.
One way to handle this is to have a stack named "language" in memory
and the name of the language on disk. It contains all translated
strings for a given langauge in a custom property set. The set might
look like this:
uLanguage["tt.MyTooltip"]
uLanguage["dlg.AskForFile"]
etc.
After finishing your primary language file, you can write a routine
which will take all of the custom properties of this stack and export
a key/value pair to a file that your translators can translate. Then
you can have an importer which reads the file and creates a new
language stack for German, French, etc.
Now write a function for retrieving the strings easily. If you
needed to do any modifications (switch encodings, etc.) to the string
before returning it you could do it here. The function will access
the string of whatever language stack file is currently loaded into
memory.
function getString pKey
return the uLanguage[pKey] of stack "language"
end getString
Now to call a dialog just do this:
answer getString("dlg.AskForFile")
You can simplify setting tooltips and field text values by using code
like this when a stack opens for the first time. It just looks for
custom properties of controls that specify what key in the language
stack to use for that control.
repeat with i = 1 to the number of cards of this stack
repeat with j = 1 to the number of controls of this stack
if the uLocale["tooltip"] of control j of card i of this
stack is not empty then
set the tooltip of control j of card i of this stack to \
getString(the uLocale["tooltip"] of control j of
card i of this stack)
end if
if the uLocale["text"] of control j of card i of this stack
is not empty then
set the text of control j of card i of this stack to \
getString(the uLocale["tooltip"] of control j of
card i of this stack)
end if
end repeat
end repeat
Anyway, just some thoughts.
David - I've tried answering the email you sent me but it keeps
getting bounced. I've tried a couple of accounts but I think I am
not on your spam list.
--
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
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