[Lazarus] Localization in toolkit like fpGUI

[Giuliano Colla]

Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I know this is not directly related to Lazarus, but I thought with all
> the experience collected and that Lazarus supports localization, I
> might get some good ideas here...
> 
> I want to localize the fpGUI toolkit. Standard dialogs, error
> messages, etc... What is the best way to approach this.
> 
> 1) GetText: This was my first thought, but that means every fpGUI
> based application needs to ship with external .po files which I don't
> like and don't want. fpGUI based applications must preferably be a
> single executable at best.  GetText works great for your own
> applications, but not for the GUI framework I think.
> 

Are you really sure that a single executable is a must?

I found out, at least in my experience, that by an end user point of 
view, a self extracting zip (Windows), a tar.bz2 (*nix), or a .dmg (Mac) 
is pretty much the same, and allows to distribute a folder instead of a 
file.

This makes it possible to keep large images as separate files, to add 
translation files without touching the source code, to provide a launch 
script, an icon in the taskbar or in the desktop, etc.

It also permits to change the language at run-time, which sometimes is 
required.

Just my 2 c

Giuliano

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