[Lazarus] MouseWheel in combobox (GTK1)

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:14:29 +0200
"Graeme Geldenhuys" <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 17/03/2008, Mattias Gärtner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> >
> > There is no standard yet.
> 
> Can LCL be compiled to a different default language (other than
> English)? Or do you always need the external .po files around? eg: Say
> I want to ship a German application (and German LCL messages) with no
> external files (.po or otherwise).

Add the .po file as resource.

 
> >  For single binary apps both is possible, but single files may be
> > nicer.
> 
> Single files sound nice, but I can't see them working in practice.
> The application and LCL are two separate projects. Different people
> will probably translate each part. LCL has been around for some time
> and could have many translations already while the application could
> be new.  Then again, if one could somehow merge the two translation
> files before the applications is distributed, it could work. Seeing
> that .po files are plain text, that should be a fairly trivial task.
> And now I've just contradicted my own statement in the beginning of
> this paragraph  :)

:)


> >  A wiki page should be started and the various conventions should
> > be collected. Then we can decide a standard and implement some
> > tools.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea.

Please start it.

 
> > This is one solution. But some installer/package systems expect
> > that translation files should be in specific separate directories
> > (e.g. sub directories).
> 
> fpGUI has support for alternative directories (fpgui_XXX.po is one
> such example), I simply don't use them at the moment for the
> application translation files.


Mattias