RE: PDesk rewrite back on track

Rick,

not sure what language is Bjoen's. But if you cannot find someone for
German, i offer to take that translation port.

Take care!

Christian


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> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:35 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [progect] PDesk rewrite back on track
> 
> BTW Bjoern,
> 
> Can I rope you into doing some translation duties for the new PDesk?
> 
> What I am writing specifically is a framework to edit 
> outlines of pretty much any form, and PDesk would be one of 
> those types it could edit...
> 
> Anyway, I need to make sure that I can handle 
> internationalization before I get too much farther...
> 
> 
> You will have to forgive the rest, it's not really organized 
> that well...
> 
> 
> So this is basically how it works...
> 
> There are plugins at a high level to handle various file 
> types, PDesk's 
> (new XML) file format would be one of them. There could be other file 
> type plugins to handle other sorts of outlines.
> 
> Then, inside the PDesk plugin it has sub-plugins that handle 
> each sort of 
> item that you can have inside PDesk, so there would be one 
> for a task, one 
> for an info type and so on, including say new ones like pictures.
> 
> I did that so that people other than me could write plugins 
> to extend the 
> PDesk file format for things like pictures and whatever else 
> makes people 
> happy.
> 
> The rewritten Progect would also have plugins :), that way 
> people could 
> write plugins for it to handle the new PDesk types...
> 
> Another goal would be that each language could reformat the screens 
> whatever way they saw fit. This should fix some of the 
> problems we had 
> with Progect, where the formatting was simply not working.
> 
> 
> What I need, is to make sure that three things are 
> internationalizable:
> 
> 1) The outliner framework application
> 2) The plugins for things like PDesk file formats
> 3) The sub-plugins that the PDesk file format uses
> 
> I have started to make the #3 plugins internationalizable and 
> will have to 
> work on the rest of the numbered points.
> 
> So I was wondering if I could send you an example resource file to 
> translate. But I was also wondering if you could try things 
> out and make 
> sure things work for you at a language level by running the new 
> application.
> 
> The resource file will be a custom format in XML that I use 
> with some XSLT 
> stylesheets that convert the custom format into a wxWidgets 
> compatible xrc 
> file format.
> 
> This seriously simplifies creating the screens for the plugins.
> 
> The custom file format is designed to be as simple to edit by hand as 
> possible.
> 
> I don't think I have the format documented anywhere, but we 
> can talk if 
> you are having issues.
> 
> This is just the beginning so you would have both input and 
> frustration 
> :).
> 
> Are you available?
> 
> If so, I will send you an example plugin screen file to translate.
> 
> And then, shortly after I would have to send you the Python 
> files to run 
> the new PDesk and so on.
> 
> I don't really see this consuming a lot of your time, there 
> aren't that 
> many screens yet, and we mostly have to prove we *can* translate it 
> without a huge amount of grief than do the whole application at this 
> point.
> 
> Have Fun
> Rick
> 
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Bjoern Sjut wrote:
> 
> > Rick Price schrieb:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> Since I assume there is a general interest in the health 
> of the project...
> >>
> >> I just thought I would mention that I have solved the problems that
> >> derailed the PDesk rewrite and things are back on track again...
> >
> >
> > Congratulations, Rick!
> >
> > It's good to hear that the project is still breathing.
> >
> > Best, Bjoern
> >
> > -- 
> > Bjoern Sjut - Journalist (Hamburg, Germany)
> > http://www.wordworkers.de/
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> >
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