[Lazarus] Localization in toolkit like fpGUI

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 19/02/2008, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> > GetText is not sacred: it is just one mechanism to handle resourcestrings.
> >
> > The resources branch has a complete implementation of resources for ALL
> > platforms supported by FPC. You can store the resource strings in resources,
> > (as delphi does) and link in the correct resources. Normally, the resource
> > support should be merged in to trunk.
> 
> I don't fully understand this.... I've never looked in any resources
> branch. Might explaining a bit more?

Giulio Bernardi created an extension to the compiler so it can use resources
(linked in data such as bitmaps, icons, strings and whatnot, just like windows) 
for all platforms. 

Since this is an experimental feature, it was decided to put this in a
separate branch in Subversion:
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/resources


> 
> 
> > My recommendation is to go with resource strings as you would do now with
> > constants, and when the compiler has the needed support, switch it to
> > a single resource file.
> 
> So you are saying option (2) is okay for now. I have all text defined
> as resourcestring, but currently I'm ignoring the generated .rst file
> and simply using them (rsXXXX constants) as if they were standard
> constants.

Yes. I think that this is OK.

(maybe take into account what Mattias said regarding defines)

Michael.