Le Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:07:31 +0200, Jonas Sundström <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
"Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ...You have to see where a string is used to get a correct translation. Perfect would be a WYSIWYG mode where you could replace any string of an app while it's running.Haiku app scripting can do rudimentary inspection of the view hiearchy of a running application. (I admit that I'm uncertain on the boundaries of that capability.) I think it would be possible to make a separate inspection/ translation application, which you would run along-side the application you're translating. You'd be interacting normally with the application and switch to the inspection tool to do translation. It would use Haiku application scripting to build a tree of the view hierarchy, crosschecking the strings of every view/ control it encounters with the default catalog and the catalog you're working on, highlighting the active view hierarcy section's catalog entries, letting you almost edit in context. I think it might even let you inject the new string, in place, in addition to updating the catalog you're editing. But such injections would not be meaningful for strings that are composed by substrings and arguments at runtime. (The inspector could possibly look for printf-style varargs and warn about it.) Maybe the application scripting can be improved somehow to make this faux-translation-in-context more reliable, and the views/controls improved to allow more reliable identification by way of scripting - in a future API revision. Another idea might be to have the tool do string animation (xxx, YYYY, xxx, YYYY, ..., etc) and have focus change to its view, in the target application, on selection of a catalog entry in the inspector, showing its location in the GUI. (If that part of the GUI is actually live at the moment.)
Don't you think you are a bit overengineering it ?Actually, the Locale Kit should support reloading of a catalog when you switch to a new preferred language in the preflet. I'm not sure how to do it, but once done it would allow to just send the 'locale changed' message to the app and force it to reload the catalog you just wrote to disk. As for lookup, it is possible to look at the context and comment of the string in the catfile. If localization is done right, this should be enough to find them out easily in the window. An online translation tool could sort strings by context and display a screenshot of the apps with the english strings, showing the said context (often a view of the application). When translating, it is possible to have as many contexts as you want. So translators should get enough help with that...
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