Friday March 17, 2006 Seapegasus Blog
Friday March 17, 2006 NetzBohnen Entwicklungsumgebung 2
If you took a look at the IDE's German localisation that I mentioned recently, you have noticed that there is still a lot of work to be done. The Contributor only translated menu items that he was actually using in his rich client application, but he gives us a good head-start in this undertaking (and one excuse less, dang). Well, I'm about to figure out how to translate the IDE. :-)
Alright — I checked out the localizable_nowww module alias from the sources. This roughly checked out everything the cvs contained. My harddrive is full. Thanksalot, cvs server. :-< I'm investigating whether I really have to do that or whether it's enough to just check out translatedfiles.
I open translatedfiles in the Favorites window. After a while of searching -- I right-click build.xml, see Run Ant Target, open the Advanced window -- I find and run the "copy_pre" target in the hope of getting a list of files that still need to be localized. Lots of stuff appears in translatedfiles/src-todo/...
OK now, let's see: In translatedfiles/src/ I descend through the package until I find Bundle_xx.properties files for several languages. The translators commented out the English original line and translated a copy of the line, so you always have a reference of what this string is in English, which is especially important for languages like Russian and Chinese, which are stored in unicode and not readily readable. Gotta remember that.
In translatedfiles/src-todo/ I descend through the package and find some untranslated Bundle.properties files, glaring at me with big sad grey eyes and mumbling "pick me, pick me!". Or maybe it's just a normal file icon and my laptop fan is whirring, dunno. *shrug* Anyway. The plan is to copy these, rename them to Bundle_de.properties, and then translate the strings, and upload them back to the cvs.
*Yawn* But not today. (Uh-oh, do I already hear the mantra of the famous "I could translate this Bundle, but..."-sluggard?) ;-) It's Friday night, for crying out loud, I'm outta here. — Stay tuned for upcoming adventures in the unmapped country of NetzBohnen Entwicklungsumgebung!
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