Hello list

I have an application which implements resource sections. When I compile, only the main file .po file is created and not a .po file for the unit in which the resourcestring section resides.

On opening the main file.po there seems to be a random selection of variable names e.g. 'Combobox1','Edit1' and some (not all) captions of forms present. No sign of my strings in the resourcestring section.

Any ideas about what I could be doing wrong?

Compiling a project that uses the resourcestring section doesn't create .po files. It creates *.rst files. You first need to run a conversion tool to get it into a .po file format.

eg:
rstconv -i uitext.rst -o languages/uitext.po

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Once again caught on my own stupidity. Thanx Graeme.

check IDE / Project / Project options / i18n / enable i18n and set a subdirectory. For example 'languages'.

In the old days.

Mattias

That is exactly what I did (using Project/Project Options/il8n/enable il8n) initially and that is when I got the jumbled (and unwanted) strings from it seems my .lpr file. No .mo file associated with my unit file that contains the resource strings. The .rst file for the unit file did get created though and using rstconv still works.

I am running on WinXP with the snapshot from 20/02/2008. I know that the enable il8n option worked in previous snapshots, but something seems to have changed. I did a completely new(clean) install of Lazarus using a new directory and it still does the same.Maybe something wrong in my project file? It still compiles without a hitch though.

That is exactly what I did (using Project/Project Options/il8n/enable il8n) initially and that is when I got the jumbled (and unwanted) strings from it seems my .lpr file.

Why unwanted? These are the strings of your forms.

No .mo file associated with my unit file that contains the resource strings. The .rst file for the unit file did get created though and using rstconv still works.

.mo files are only needed by gettext. The .po files can be read directly by the LCL translation unit, so no need for lazarus to create mo files.

Mattias

I have a problem with translations too.

var
  _PODirectory, _Lang, _FallbackLang: string;
begin
  _PODirectory := 'po/';
  GetLanguageIDs (_Lang, _FallbackLang);
  TranslateUnitResourceStrings ('Lang', _PODirectory + 'puzle.%s.po',
                                _Lang, _FallBackLang);
...

where the Lang is an unit contains resource-strings.

I take generated puzle.po, rename it to, for exaple puzle.pl.po, and translate. Later I added some strings in application and the new puzle.po file was generated. How can I update my translation in puzle.pl.po?

Tomasz Wojty?

/path/to/lazarus/tools/updatepofiles originalpofile.po

This will update all originalpofile.*.po

Eventually this function will be executed by the IDE.

Mattias

Tomasz Wojty? wrote

translate. Later I added some strings in application and the new puzle.po file was generated. How can I update my translation in puzle.pl.po?

And again Lazarus comes to the rescue. In the <lazarus>/tools directory, there is a updatepofiles.pas unit. Compile and run that agains your .po files.

From the source headers:

Name:
updatepofiles - updates po files.

Synopsis:
updatepofiles filename1.po [filename2.po ... filenameN.po]

Description:
updatepofiles deletes doubles in the po file and merges new strings into all translated po files (filename1.po.xx)

Regards,
- Graeme -

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