Re: [poedit-users] Getting started

Hi Daniel,

On 21/01/2010 12:46, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm getting started with poEdit. I have a small C++/wxWidgets program
> with several strings inside _("..."). I can't seem to get started with
> poEdit:
>
> 1) I start the program and go to File>  New Catalog. I fill in the
> project info as best I can (what can I put under project name? why do
> you need a version? what are plural forms?) and click OK.
>
> 2) The program asks me to pick a file name. So I pick one. Then it
> immediately gives me an error:
>
> * Poedit did not find any files in scanned directories.
> * Entries in the catalog are probably incorrect.
> * Updating the catalog failed. Click on 'More>>' for details.
>
> Btw, there is no "More>>" link.
>
> What does all this mean? PoEdit never told me that it needed to scan
> anything. Why can't it just create an empty file with the info I gave
> it? In any case, how do I tell what to scan, it never asked me!
>
> 3) Anyways, I try to move on. Naturally there are no strings to
> translate, so I want to add one. I look through all the menus and I
> don't see any option to add a new string. Hmm... that's not very useful.
>
> I then notice that the window is divided into three sections. I've seen
> poEdit before, and I vaguely recall that the bottom sections are for
> translation, but it is not clear which one is the "from" language and
> which one is the "to" language. I try to type into one of those boxes
> but nothing happens. What gives! Typing into the bottom-most box does
> work, but that's pretty useless on its own.
>
>
> Not good.
>
> Can someone explain to me how I can add translation strings to poEdit
> please?
>    
They get added when poEdit scans your code.

Maybe this page helps:
http://wiki.wxpython.org/poEdit

I guess/think that your catalog/settings/path are not correctly set.

Werner


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