Re: [XBoard-devel] Gettext localization will work with the osx app!

[Joshua Pettus]

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

On 05.10.2014, at 01:55 vorm., Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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