Re: Translations

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:29:02PM -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> I'm not sure if there is a better solution here, but something like this 
> should work for spinlocks:
> 
> xwt.thread = function() {
>     strings = xwt.xmlrpc(blah);
>     gotit = true;
> }
> 
> main loop:
> while(!gotit) { xwt.sleep(100); }
> 
> I use that technique in several places and it works well.  I use 
> xwt.sleep(100) instead of xwt.yield() just ot help the engine from spinning 
> in a tight loop and taking up gobs of processor time.  If 1/10s is too 
> detectable in your application you can reduce it or use xwt.yield().

While it'll probably work, I don't think I want to bother with this.
It'd have to happen in too many places in my app. I'll just make the
various languages separate xwars, then.

> As far as making the data globally available, you should be able to do so by 
> placing the data in static.something.

Could I place this in the static.something of an .xwt that I would
pre-apply? I guess that would mean I would have the translation strings
loaded multiple times... that would not be good.

If I had something like this in my main.xwt:

<xwt>
  <preapply name="nl.irisadvies.iris.translations"/>
  <preapply name="nl.irisadvies.iris.main"/>
  <template/>
</xwt>

Where translations.xwt would have something like

<xwt>
  <static>
    var translation
    translation['main.title'] = 'Title';
    translation['accounts.title'] = 'Accounts';
    translation['accounts.apply'] = 'Save data';
    ....
  </static>
</xwt>

Would this data then be loaded before the rest of my UI is loaded? And
how would I get at this data, since boxes can't escape their own
namespace?

Emile

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