translation of xplorer2

Angry_I · Post by **Angry_I** » 2004 Feb 06, 20:57

"it is very hard to translate 2xExplorer in any language, hence the emptiness of this section. When I start writing the new generation 2xExplorer² I promise to keep ethnic issues high on my agenda!" says Nikos. Does xplorer2 support translations? Thanks again.

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Feb 07, 08:53

yes it does but until the gui is finalized it is too early to speak of translations

Napper · Post by **Napper** » 2004 Feb 12, 14:03

May I volunteer for the translation job into German?

Cheers,

Napper.

PS: Grand job on this tool, man! Looking forward to Beta days, so to speak...

Angry_I · Post by **Angry_I** » 2004 Feb 12, 21:17

xplorer2 will read translations from files or it will be build in that language. I think that the files needed for translation showld be released because while the gui progresses the translators can update their work and when the gui if finished the translation will be finished too.

Good work! Expecting the betas

Post by **nikos** » 2004 Feb 15, 12:14

translations will only be considered after the english version is fully out or at late beta stages (same goes for the installer).

The process will be similar to ed2's translation, for those that are aware of it: I'll send you the resource (RC) file and you'll use developer studio or similar to edit it. Then a completely separate version will be built out of it

another option would be to have all the language specific code in a DLL and ship all translations together; during installation users can select a language.

Napper · Post by **Napper** » 2004 Feb 22, 13:05

I think I like the later option better, since it is easier to customize dll files.

I again and again amazed how, eg.: Opera Software manages to have so many parts of their program in easily modifiable files - I think developers should learn from that.

As for your plan to start working on the translating bits not before the final beta - we shall wait - though we don't like...

Na - keep up the good work!

Reg.

Napper

Angry_I · Post by **Angry_I** » 2004 May 12, 08:56

The latest beta is very coooool, but I would like to begin translating it soon. My reason is simple: the first non beta release could have support for multiple languages.

VaMPiRiC_CRoW · Post by **VaMPiRiC_CRoW** » 2004 May 12, 12:43

If I can translate it to Portuguese....

Angry_I · Post by **Angry_I** » 2004 May 13, 08:29

We shall wait a little before we can translate xplorer2.