Translations in FeedReader

Submitted by Pipoman on Wed, 2007-04-11 17:32. Development

Even though FeedReader has now gone closed source, I am very interested in the way you handle translations in the FeedReader 3 source code (Delphi 7 as far as I know).

I don't know how you feel about that, or even if you are willing to share anything, but I definitely like your approach (separate UTF-8 encoded XML files, switch language at runtime and reassign all captions/hints/strings (RTTI perhaps?) etc.). I am facing a similar challenge, and this is precisely how I would do it but as always time is precious. I would be really grateful if I could get some examples/code snippets from you on this matter. I hope you can help me on that one, but of course it's up to you.

Anyway, thanks for FeedReader...

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The easyest way; * each

Submitted by ingmar on Thu, 2007-04-12 11:15.

The easyest way;
* each visual comp has uniq tagid

procedure test(const pcomp : tcomponent);
var i : integer;
begin
for i:=0 to pcomp.ComponentCount-1 do
begin
if (pcomp.Components[i].Tag=555) and (pcomp.Components[i] is TLabel) then
TLabel(pcomp.Components[i]).Caption:='test';

test(pcomp.Components[i]);
end;
end;

.................
begin
test(form1);
end;

Ingmar

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That's too easy ;-)

Submitted by Pipoman on Thu, 2007-04-12 19:24.

Thanks for stopping by and helping me a bit. Are you by the way affiliated to the FeedReader dev team, if you don't mind my asking?

I have the feeling that they use something different in FeedReader 3.
When I look at the translation files (UTF-8 encoded XML), all translated items have ids which sound/look like a hash of some sort (0000D882E53 for the first item) and the components in the FeedReader forms all have tag=0.
It could indicate something more sophisticated behind which I am really interested to hear more about if possible. Just to clarify things, it is something I would like to use for internationalizing/localizing a small application I made a while ago in Delphi 7.

Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.

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