Using a string Table On MAC Topic is solved

[Rabah]

Dears wxCoders ,

To display text on panel or frame and other controls...On windows I use a table with "IDS" in Resources of my project.

And I code a function GetString :

wxString GetString(int index)
{
#if defined (__WIN32__)
TCHAR Tchar[250];
LoadString(NULL,index,Tchar,250);
wxString Tstr = _CTS(Tchar);
return Tstr;
#elif defined (__WXMAC__)
return wxT("TO DO");
#endif
}

This function uses TCHAR which is specific to windows.
Please could you say me what the MAC alterniative?

Regards
Rabah

[benedicte]

AFAIK, there is no string table on Mac.

The "only" cross-platform solution is to use xgettext and extract translatable strings from your code source (those marked with the _("") macro instead of wxT(""))

[Rabah]

Hello Benedicte,

Sorry but I do not understand,

What do you mean? where should I call "xgettext"?
is "xgettext" a mac/native function?
And what about "LoadString" which is also specific for windows?

difference between
_("") and wxT("").

Regards
Rabah

[benedicte]

First, look at the "internat" wxWidget sample installed on your computer(s). It will show you how to use .po files for localized strings.

The aim is to have a special macro "_" instead of "wxT" for all strings that you know you will want to translate.

xgettext is a GNU program (you should be able to get it from gnu.org or another mirror) that extracts strings from your source code (you prepare a list of source files), and generates empty .po files. Then, you just have to translate the strings in the .po files, modify a bit your code to load the .po file corresponding to the language you want in your pp, and that's all.

For more info, you can google "xgettext", or on this forum "xgettext", "i18n" (stands for internationalization, 18 is for the number of letters in the word ), "wxLocale"...

TRex made a tutorial about using xgettext, you should be able to find the URL in this forum.

[Rabah]

Thanks a lot for the details.
I searched for the tutorial but nothing.
Have you got the URL please?

Rabah

[Auria]

My own quick translation routine looks like this: (google for 'xgettext tutorial' for more info, there are many tutorials)

My project is called 'Aria Maestosa' as you can see, and i keep a subfolder called "international" inside the "Src" folder, i put all translations in it

cd "path/to/Src"
xgettext -d AriaS -s --keyword=_ -p international -o AriaS-new.pot *.cpp
# if you have files in many directories of course you will neeed to specify them instead of '*.cpp'

# if any previous translation exists, don't throw away what already has been translated
cd international
msgmerge -s -U french.po AriaS-new.pot

# remove previous translation and use new one instead
rm AriaS.pot && mv AriaS-new.pot AriaS.pot && rm french.po~

Then i open french.po is smultron (a mac text editor), choose reload in UTF-8 from the menus, translate, save

# generate binary translation file
msgfmt -c -v -o aria_maestosa.mo french.po

also be sure to read this: http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/stable ... ation.html

[benedicte]

Thanks a lot for the details.
I searched for the tutorial but nothing.
Have you got the URL please?

Rabah

I gave you the URL for T-Rex's tutorial on the other thread.