| Re: Internationalization [message #35021 is a reply to message #34969] |
Mon, 12 May 2003 02:08   |
Miguel ?ngel C?rdoba
Messages: 7
Registered: February 2003
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Thank you Reimar,
I found a method based on the IDLffLanguageCat class and then
routines MSG_CAT_COMPILE, MSG_CAT_OPEN, MSG_CAT_CLOSE
and LOCALE_GET.
Regards.
Reimar Bauer wrote:
> Miguel Angel Cordoba wrote:
>
>
>
>> Hi,
>> I want to internationalize my aplications but I don't know how
>> to do it. I have the translated files of the messages of the application
>> but I don't know if IDL can do a precompiled option that change
>> the messages in the code in the selected language. Another solution
>> is to read the file of messages and store it in and string array, but I
>> think
>> this solution is not a good idea.
>>
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>>
>>
>
> I believe the internationalition isn't yet supported.
> I would suggest to do something like this.
>
> you need always txt files named to the belonging routine
> e.g. my_prog_lang_en.txt my_prog_lang_de.txt
>
>
> ----routine name lang_message.pro -------
>
> FUNCTION lang_message_fetch_file,file
> txt=MAKE_ARRAY(/STRING,fileline(file))
> OPENR,lun,/GET_LUN,file
> READF,lun,txt
> FREE_LUN,lun
> RETURN,txt
> END
> FUNCTION lang_message,_extra=e
> IF is_structure(e) THEN BEGIN
> l_tags=get_tagname(e,'lang*')
> IF is_structure(l_tags) EQ 1 THEN BEGIN
> language=(TAG_NAMES(l_tags))[0]
> HELP,call=call
> routine=(strsplit(call[1],' ',/extract))[0]
> msg_file=STRLOWCASE(routine+'_'+language+'.txt')
> comments=lang_message_fetch_file(msg_file)
> ENDIF ELSE BEGIN
> HELP,call=call
> routine=(strsplit(call[1],' ',/extract))[0]
> msg_file=STRLOWCASE(routine+'_lang_de.txt')
> comments=lang_message_fetch_file(msg_file)
> ENDELSE
> ENDIF ELSE BEGIN
> HELP,call=call
> routine=(strsplit(call[1],' ',/extract))[0]
> msg_file=STRLOWCASE(routine+'_lang_de.txt')
> comments=lang_message_fetch_file(msg_file)
> ENDELSE
> RETURN,comments
> END
>
>
> ------
>
> Example script:
> pro my_prog,_extra=e
> message,lang_message(_extra=e),/info
> end
>
> ------------
>
> called:
> my_prog,/lang_de>
> IDL> my_prog,/lang_de
> % MY_PROG: Beispiel fï¿œr einen Test.
>
> or
>
> my_prog,/lang_en
> IDL> my_prog,/lang_en
> % MY_PROG: Example
>
>
> the routine get_tagname you can get from our library:
>
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl_ html/dbase/download/get_tagname.tar.gz
> or as idl 5.x bninary
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_source/idl_ html/dbase/download/get_tagname.sav
>
> For further routines and licensing please have a look at
> http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg-i/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro. html
>
> best regards
>
> Reimar
>
>
>
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TEL. 93 4017371
http://campus.uab.es/~2034008
Grup de Recerca Aplicada en Hidrometeorologia (GRAHi-UPC)
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