Multilingual framework

Hi all,

    I wanted to know if someone has made some multilingual framework for
it's developments.

    What have one to consider to make a development had the feature that
could easily be in other languages?

    Usually a development has one main language, but what to do when you
want to make that application to be available in 2 or 3 languages. I don't
include here eastern languages, not yet :) for example you want this
application to be available in spanish, english and portuguese.

    What do you recomend to do with menu items, and all the
language-dependant stuff?

    thanks

Seb

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:14:25 -0300, "Smalltalkiano"
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One way would be to use libraries.  We use symbols written in English
then refer to the appropriate dictionary, using the symbol itself as a
fallback in case the dictionary either isn't loaded or doesn't have
the definition.

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Larry
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"L. M. Rappaport" <[hidden email]> escribió en el mensaje
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    And how do you dinamically build the menu messages and commands?


    regards,

Seb

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> Larry
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Seb,

>     And how do you dinamically build the menu messages and commands?

Have a look at the various #onAboutToDisplayMenu: methods in the image.
They can be used to dynamically build a menu so you can change the menu text
language as required.

Two things to watch out for....

You need to give the Menu a "Symbolic name".  This should be entered as a
string and not a symbol (i.e. don't enter an initial #).
You also need to enable the menu using a standard #queryCommand: method
entry (using the aforementioned "Symbolic name" as the command - this time
as a Symbol) or else #onAboutToDisplayMenu: will not be called.

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Ian

Ian,

    that sound accurate enough, I'll get on it.

    thanks,

Seb


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> Seb,
>
> >     And how do you dinamically build the menu messages and commands?
>
> Have a look at the various #onAboutToDisplayMenu: methods in the image.
> They can be used to dynamically build a menu so you can change the menu
text