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Tell me what you think of these 3 screenshots taken from Ubuntu. You click the flag in the top right corner to change language.

I still need to do more work on the translations.

Up until today, my network analysis program called Dynamo was only available for MS-Windows and Linux (with GTK+). Earlier today at about 8am, I started looking into trying to get MacOS to run in a virtual machine on my desktop PC running MS-Windows 10. Well it's now 1:58pm, so in the past 6 hours I...

One of the drawbacks of this approach of using a starter program is that my application will be in memory three times. However if I wanted to be a real miser with RAM then I could get my main application to reuse the memory that is wasted by the starter program.

It displays a nice GUI interface for the user to enter their superuser password if I change the system call to: "pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY /dev/shm/prog_binary" This is exactly what I'm looking for but now I just want to try make it so that the binary data for my main progra...

I got this to work in Linux just now with the following code for the starter program: #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/shm.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/stat.h> /* For mode constants */ #include <sys/types.h> #include <fcntl.h> /* For O_* constants */ #include <unistd.h...

David, I see that your code can start a child process as root. What I really want to do though is to take the current process and elevate it to root. If it's not possible to elevate a process to root, then here's my next idea: (1) Take my Dynamo application and embed it within another exectuable. Le...

ONEEYEMAN wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2020 3:53 pm

However, I seriously doubt that. wxWidgets philosophy is - follow a native platform guidelines. And I don't think any of the 3 major platform guidelines says - translations can be embedded.

wxMSW has the class "wxResourceTranslationsLoader" for loading ".mo" files embedded in the binary.

This is all still a little half-baked but I've put some stuff together for embedding translations in the binary file for your application (for every platform -- not just for MS-Windows). I have all of this working for my network analysis application called 'Dynamo'. So far I have it in English, Germ...

Out of curiosity - do you know any German language? Are you doing any sorting in your software? And I believe the question you asked - yes, it is by design. I can comfortably have a conversation in English (my first language), Lao and Irish. My Irish is a little rusty though, I'd want to go to an I...

My application is written in English and uses the underscore prefix for translateable strings. So far I have a German and Irish translation. I have noticed something though. If I do these steps in order: (1) Load the catalog for German (2) Recreate the GUI (3) Load the catog for Irish (4) Recreate t...

I've written a separate function that calls "SetLabel" on all the widgets after you change language, and this works fine. It even looks okay without me resizing anything, but I might take a look at calling the proper resize functions tomorrow. At one point my application was able to switch language ...

I interpret it as: "I will put the translation files inside my executable". Do ou have different interpretation? The point I was trying to make is that the translation files need to be loaded from disk into RAM at some point. I won't save microseconds anywhere. If you wanted to shave those microsec...

Would it work out OK, instead of destroying the main dialog, if I were to call all the "SetText" methods on all the widgets and then try to resize them? That would be possible, but is it worth the effort? How often do users actually change the GUI language? Usually only once and then it shouldn't m...

I have this working now with my ".mo" files embedded in the exectuable file as global char arrays.

I'll post code for wxInputIteratorTranslationsLoader later. Maybe it's an idea worth adding to wxWidgets 3.1.x ?

ONEEYEMAN wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:27 pm

Instead of loading translation file from the disk you want to link it in the binary and grab the translation from memory.

And how did it get into memory?