Ways to build a multilingual App?

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Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by DevBoyLars » Fri Feb 21, 2014 6:31 pm

Hi there,
what kind of ways are out there to build a multilingual App in LC?

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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by dunbarx » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:26 pm

Not sure I really know what I am talking about here.

If I were writing a application for French, I would have to make sure that interface elements, such as the "answer" dialog, had things like "Annuler" instead of "Cancel". Is this the sort of thing you mean?

It is straightforward to use different character sets for different countries. Of course, you have to program in english. As an American, I see that as only natural. :D

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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by jacque » Fri Feb 21, 2014 7:32 pm

One common way is to create a custom property set for each language. Each property set has keys in English with values in the other language. The controls in the stack should have names in English. When the stack opens, or before each card opens, the script loops through all the controls and sets their labels to the value in the appropriate custom property set.

That allows you to use a single English name for every control while displaying a different language to the user on screen.
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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by dunbarx » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:04 pm

Jacque.

Surely a sound approach. Or maybe just one property, holding an array, like:

translator["French"]["EnglishLabel1"]["FrenchLabel1"]
translator["French"]["EnglishLabel2"]["FrenchLabel2"]
translator["Spanish"]["EnglishLabel1"]["SpanishLabel1"]
translator["Spanish"]["EnglishLabel2"]["SpanishLabel2"]
etc.

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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by jacque » Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:42 pm

Sure, that would work too. One advantage of using different property sets though is that you can just set the property set once at startup and then use a bit simpler syntax:

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set the customPropertySet of this stack to thisLanguage -- only done once at startup, then thereafter:

set the label of btn "File" of grp "menu" to  the cFile of this stack
instead of:

set the label of btn "File" of grp "menu" to the translator[thisLanguage]["File"][cFile] of this stack
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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by DevBoyLars » Sat Feb 22, 2014 9:40 am

Could someone please upload a sample stack for me please? :)

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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by Simon » Sat Feb 22, 2014 10:07 am

I used to be a newbie but then I learned how to spell teh correctly and now I'm a noob!

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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by jmburnod » Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:53 pm

Hi All,
Url post above doesn't work.
Here is a little stack with some scripts for translate label, menuitems and ask/answer dialogs between English/French.
stChangeLangage.zip
(2.42 KiB) Downloaded 264 times
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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by Klaus » Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:58 pm


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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by jmburnod » Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:47 pm

Salut Klaus,
Thank you
I was able to open it after I replace ".mc" with ".livecode" in file name and it works 8)
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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by Klaus » Sun Jun 24, 2018 6:17 pm

It also works without renaming when you select "All files" in the popup below the filelist! 8)

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Re: Ways to build a multilingual App?

Post by jmburnod » Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:21 pm

Here is a new version "stChangeLangage001".
It use the same way as first and it is able to always return handler name in English for each langage
stChangeLangage001.zip
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