[Seaside-dev] Re: Seaside-Gettext sneak peak

[Philippe Marschall]

2010/5/9 Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
> Hi
>
> Up until now if you wanted to have a multilingual Seaside application
> in Pharo you had to "roll your own" which can be a bit uncool. Hilaire
> ported the gettext package from the OLPC to Pharo and I wrote a small
> Seaside layer on top of it.
>
> What you need:
> 1. update to the very latest Seaside 3.0
> 2. unzip the attached file in your image folder
> 3. load Gettext from PharoInbox
> 4. load Seaside-Gettext-Core from [1]
> 5. load Seaside-Gettext-Examples from [1]
> 6. go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/gettext
>
> Usage:
> Right now the API is:
>
> html translate: 'text to translate'
> html translate: 'other text to translate' to: aWALocale
>
> which renders the translation. This has the problem that is doesn't
> work for attributes, I'll need to come up with a solution for this,
> API proposals are welcome.
>
> Gettext Workflow:
> 1. write your application using the API above
> 2. register your domain. A domain is a way to group strings, you might
> have Pier and a reporting application running in the same image and
> want each to use it's own dictionary:
> TextDomainManager registerCategoryPrefix: 'Seaside-Gettext-Examples'
> domain: 'gettext'
> 3. export the template
> WAGetTextExporter new exportTemplate
> 4. create the translation files e.g. using poedit [2]
> 5. put the translation files in locale/<locale>/LC_MESSAGES/<domain>.(po|mo)
> 6. done
>
> One of the nice things about gettext is that there are external tools
> like poedit [2] to manage the translation files which you can give to
> your translators. No more need to mess around with Excel. There are
> also tools [3] that display how much of your application is already
> translated.
>
>  [1] http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside29Addons

That's now:
http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside30Addons

Cheers
Philippe