[Lazarus] lrt files and datamodules

[Daithi Haxton]

Solved, or at least understood. I'm answering my own question in the  
hope that it may keep somebody else from wandering about for two days  
looking for this ...

Turns out the problem wasn't with data modules per se, it was with any  
form that uses resourcestrings. The IDE's po updating mechanism is  
supposed to pick up content from both lrt and rst files on a form  
save. Lrt's are never generated from datamodules by design (or at  
least never seem to have been). My proof of concept program for this  
project worked fine, but that was done over a year ago from the  
released Lazarus install. Now we're using Lazarus 1.2.0 and fpc 2.7.1  
(we needed the better generic support in the newer compiler). The  
newer compiler no longer generates rst files, it generates rsj files -  
same thing in a JSON format, I suspect. some of the tools supplied  
with the compiler (rstconv, for example) know how to read and convert  
these, but the 1.2 IDE has no clue. Consequently data modules (or  
regular forms/units) with resources never get put into the current po  
file.

Hopefully this will be fixed in a future release, but I couldn't find  
much discussion in roadmaps/bugs on it. I'll just work around it  
manually until then.

Be well,
Dave H.





On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Daithi Haxton wrote:

> I have the internationalization options turned on in the Project  
> options and am creating the files required for translation just fine  
> for every form - except TDataModule descendants. No lrt file is  
> created when saving a data module.  I have a sinking feeling this is  
> not a bug, but I wanted to verify, and also ask about workarounds -
>
> Thanx,
> Dave H.
>
>
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