[etoys-dev] Formatting translated text

[Scott Wallace]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> I just noticed these translatable strings in SketchMorph>>collapse :
>
> collapsedVersion setBalloonText: 'A collapsed version of '  
> translated, self externalName, '.  Click to open it back up.'  
> translated.
>
> This creates two separate translation entries, which do not  
> necessarily appear next to each other in a translation tool. The  
> canonical way would have been
>
> collapsedVersion setBalloonText: ('A collapsed version of {1}.   
> Click to open it back up.' translated format: {self externalName}).
>
> We should stick to this kind of formatting.
>
> - Bert -


Oops, sorry -- my bad.

I've now fixed up the method in question so that it uses the proper  
idiom, as per Bert's suggestion, and published the revised version as  
update 2248collapseTweak-sw.

  -- Scott