Re: Gettext localization will work with the osx app!

I know very little about NLS, and I hadn't time to study your e-mails 
about it due to non-computer-related business soaking up most of my time.

But it seems to me that GTK internationalization (for things like OK and 
Cancel buttons) should not be in the bundle, but be part of the GTK 
library. Or is that library part of the App?

H.G.

Joshua Pettus schreef op 10/6/2014 9:17 PM:
> Darn,  one more hurdle…turns out xboard isn’t the only thing that uses 
> gettext, but GTK itself to translate the buttons and various menu 
> items.  For the life of me, I can’t figure out how to get GTK2 to stop 
> looking on my system’s locale folder and into the app bundle’s for 
> it’s gtk20.mo files.  Does anyone know how this is handled? Is it gtk 
> or one of its supporting programs that handles the button text?  I 
> don’t have to fork gtk2 do I?…  I haven’t figured out how other apps 
> do it yet, there must be a way.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
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> On Oct 5, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Joshua Pettus <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> Ha! After studying a lot of code found on the internet, remembering 
>> what HGM taught me, learning a little more how things work, plus some 
>> very lucky guess work of my own, I found a working solution to my 
>> problem!
>>
>>  In gtk/xboard.c:
>>
>> #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
>> //   if (appData.debugMode) {
>> //     fprintf(debugFP, "locale = %s\n", setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
>> //   }
>> + #ifdef __APPLE__
>> + char *res_path;
>> +    res_path = gtkosx_application_get_resource_path ();
>> + #undef LOCALEDIR
>> + #define LOCALEDIR g_strconcat (res_path, "/share/locale", NULL ) // 
>> redefine localedir for OSX bundle
>> + #endif
>> bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
>> bind_textdomain_codeset(PACKAGE, "UTF-8"); // needed when creating 
>> markup for the clocks
>> textdomain(PACKAGE);
>> #endif
>>
>> Not bad for someone who doesn’t know coding. :-)
>>
>> HGM, I’m sure you have a better solution with the systems in place, 
>> whenever you get around to it for 4.8.1.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Josh Pettus
>>
>>
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>> On 05.10.2014, at 01:55 vorm., Joshua Pettus <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm,  Well I clearly don’t have a clue as to what I’m doing
>>> I added these lines to xboard.c main() (mimicking what HGM did for 
>>> SVGDIR)  I know they would have to be put in ifdef ENABLE_NLS but I 
>>> just want it working.
>>>
>>> #ifdef __APPLE__
>>>     { // prepare to catch OX OpenFile signal, which will tell us the 
>>> clicked file
>>> char *path = gtkosx_application_get_bundle_path();
>>> theApp = g_object_new(GTKOSX_TYPE_APPLICATION, NULL);
>>> strncpy(dataDir, path, MSG_SIZ);
>>> snprintf(masterSettings, MSG_SIZ, 
>>> "%s/Contents/Resources/etc/xboard.conf", path);
>>> snprintf(svgDir, MSG_SIZ, 
>>> "%s/Contents/Resources/share/xboard/themes/default", path);
>>>    + char localeDir[MSG_SIZ] = LOCALEDIR;
>>>  + snprintf(localeDir, MSG_SIZ, 
>>> "%s/Contents/Resources/share/locale", path);
>>> suppress = (argc == 1|| argc > 1&& argv[1][00] != '-'); // OSX sends 
>>> signal even if name was already argv[1]!
>>> g_signal_connect(theApp, "NSApplicationOpenFile", 
>>> G_CALLBACK(StartNewXBoard), NULL);
>>> // we must call application ready before we can get the signal,
>>> // and supply a (dummy) menu bar before that, to avoid problems with 
>>> dual apples in it
>>> gtkosx_application_set_menu_bar(theApp, 
>>> GTK_MENU_SHELL(gtk_menu_bar_new()));
>>> gtkosx_application_ready(theApp);
>>> if(argc == 1) { // called without args: OSX open-file signal might 
>>> follow
>>> static char *fakeArgv[3] = {NULL, clickedFile, NULL};
>>>   usleep(10000); // wait 10 msec (and hope this is long enough).
>>> while(gtk_events_pending())
>>> gtk_main_iteration(); // process all events that came in upto now
>>>   suppress = 0; // future open-file signals should start new instance
>>> if(clickedFile[0]) { // we were sent an open-file signal with filename!
>>>   fakeArgv[0] = argv[0];
>>>     argc = 2; argv = fakeArgv; // fake that we were called as 
>>> "xboard filename"
>>> }
>>> }
>>>     }
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> knowing that below there is
>>>
>>>   bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
>>>
>>> and to xboard.h
>>>
>>> + extern char localeDir[];
>>>
>>> It compiles but it doesn’t find the locale folder like I hoped…
>>>
>>> Any ideas, or is what I’m doing complete gibberish?
>>> -Josh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04.10.2014, at 11:14 nachm., Joshua Pettus <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see, it’s a form of Cantonese.  I could attempt to make a folder 
>>>> for that.  Can’t tell you how useable that would be. :)
>>>> Google Translate doesn’t have it.  I found this site though:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordsearch.php?level=0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 4, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Tim Mann <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For what it's worth, a little googling tells me that zh_HK is Hong 
>>>>> Kong Chinese.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Joshua Pettus 
>>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>> Even if we cant get the code in for 4.8, I kinda would still like 
>>>>>> to have localization in the app bundle for the release, if that’s ok.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Josh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:55 AM, Joshua Pettus <[email protected] 
>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Harm,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wanted to let you know that I can have gettext working in the 
>>>>>>> mac app.  Turns out, all we needed was to compile xboard with 
>>>>>>> NLS and we were good.  Xboard of course checks the LOCALEDIR 
>>>>>>> which is originally set to /usr/local/share/locale in the 
>>>>>>> makefile.  I was hoping we could hardcode it for the Xboard.app 
>>>>>>> to be DataDir/Contents/Resources/share/locale in a way similar 
>>>>>>> to what we did with SVGDIR.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There was an extra hurdle regarding the gtkmacintegration 
>>>>>>> library with the Application (Xboard) menu, which requires to be 
>>>>>>> localized separately by OSX.  Namely a bunch of language.lproj 
>>>>>>> folders with Gtkosxapplication.strings files in the app’s 
>>>>>>> resource folder with each string for the menu items.  On the 
>>>>>>> gtk-osx-users-list email list we managed to squash a library bug 
>>>>>>> stoping this from working for us properly.  I also updated those 
>>>>>>> .string files that came with the library accordingly, so we now 
>>>>>>> have a matching language folder for every language we have with 
>>>>>>> gettext. Except for zh_HK, which I have no idea what that is.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is one more problem though.  “About Xboard” was moved from 
>>>>>>> the help menu to the Xboard menu. John Ralls said that moved 
>>>>>>> menu items need to be handled by gettext, but for some reason 
>>>>>>> this is never translated by gettext.  Anything we can do to 
>>>>>>> restore this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>> Josh Pettus
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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