I have the internationalization options turned on in the Project options and am creating the files required for translation just fine for every form - except TDataModule descendants. No lrt file is created when saving a data module. I have a sinking feeling this is not a bug, but I wanted to verify, and also ask about workarounds -

Thanx,
Dave H.

Solved, or at least understood. I'm answering my own question in the hope that it may keep somebody else from wandering about for two days looking for this ...

Turns out the problem wasn't with data modules per se, it was with any form that uses resourcestrings. The IDE's po updating mechanism is supposed to pick up content from both lrt and rst files on a form save. Lrt's are never generated from datamodules by design (or at least never seem to have been). My proof of concept program for this project worked fine, but that was done over a year ago from the released Lazarus install. Now we're using Lazarus 1.2.0 and fpc 2.7.1 (we needed the better generic support in the newer compiler). The newer compiler no longer generates rst files, it generates rsj files - same thing in a JSON format, I suspect. some of the tools supplied with the compiler (rstconv, for example) know how to read and convert these, but the 1.2 IDE has no clue. Consequently data modules (or regular forms/units) with resources never get put into the current po file.

Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release, but I couldn't find much discussion in roadmaps/bugs on it. I'll just work around it manually until then.

Be well,
Dave H.

[...] Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release, but I couldn't find much discussion in roadmaps/bugs on it. I'll just work around it manually until then.

Lazarus 1.3 can read rsj files.
This is a feature, so it will not be backported to 1.2.

Mattias