seaside sushi cart internationalization

Hi all,

I'm playing with the sushi cart of seaside. I'm trying to create a Dutch version of it. That's simply looking up text and replacing it.

Hmm, at least that's what I thought.

Because then I've come across the printStringAsCents method to show the price (for instance $ 1.50 ).

As I live in Europe, I don't want to use $, but Euro's. Of course, if someone gives them to me, I won't say no to a few dollars ;-)

It seems to be here:
Kernel-Numbers / Integer
printStringAsCents method, which is:
    ^ '$', (self // 100) displayString, '.', (self \\ 100) asTwoCharacterString

1a. Should I replace the $ sign here? Can I put the Euro sign here?

But I don't like changing kernel methods:
-  it seems dangerous because I don't know what depends on it
- hard to transfer to other installations
- and it is very likely that I will forget that I changed it for the sushi cart because the code is 'hidden' somewhere else.

Besides that, I would like to be able to set the kind of currency.

1b. Is there multilingual (regarding currencies / display of date and time / use of an external file with string messages that can be translated instead of hard coded text) library somewhere out there?

2. Because of all the help, I know how to find classes, which is great. But in my search for the printStringAsCents I was wondering how do I find messages when I know the message name, but not the class name? Or is it easy to determine the class name in some way?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

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Hi Van,


VU> 2. Because of all the help, I know how to find classes, which
VU> is great.But in my search for the printStringAsCents I was
VU> wondering how do Ifind messages when I know the message name, but
VU> not the class name? Oris it easy to determine the class name in
VU> some way?

in the right tools flap you find a "message names" and a "method
finder" tool. Message names is your friend here but also read the text
in method finder.

In general, highlight the name of a method anywhere (Workspace,
browser, inspector) and shift right click. There you find implementors
(which classes implement it), senders (where and how is it used)
"selecors containing it" (seek for a method where you only know part of
the name) "method strings with it" (to find literals in methods) and
"method source with it" (slow full text search).

Smalltalk is a lot about tools :-))


Cheers,

Herbert  

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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:00:21 -0800 (PST)
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It might be easier/safer to load the Money package on
http://www.squeaksource.com/Money.html  and make the prices in the sushi
store Money objects.  You could then convert them among many
currencies.  
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