Multilanguage support - my idea

[matczar]

I often visit UltraVNC forum, but as you can see I'm writing the first time. Hello everyone.

I would like the ChunkVNC to handle multiple languages. So, I wrote a script which makes it pretty simple. It reads the translated phrases from the *.lng files and places them in an associative array. Script contains a function that returns the translation for a given original phrase.

Here is an example.
1. original code:

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MsgBox(1,"Info","About" )

2. code contains a function that translate the phrases:

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MsgBox(1,_t("Info"),_t("About") )

Adding *.lng files to ChunkViewer is quite simple: they are in the \Bin directory, and the chunkviewer.ini contains a variable Lang which defines the language, for example Lang=pl. ChunkViewer then looks for a file \Bin\lang_pl.lng and reads a translations from this file.

In the case of InstantSupport situation is slightly more complicated. The script contains a FileInstall function which argument must be a literal string; it cannot be a variable or the result of a function call. So it is: argument looks like this - InstantSupport_Files\lang.lng. Before compiling InstantSupport, the Compiler reads Lang variable from InstantSupport_Files\chunkvnc.ini and it copies the right file from InstantSupport_lang directory to InstantSupport_Files\lang.lng file.


In summary:

1. there are two new files: \SRC\Aut2Exe\Include\Lang.au3 and \SRC\Aut2Exe\Include\AssocArray.au3. I'm an author of Lang.au3. AssocArray.au3 is written by David Nuttall "Nutster". I found this script on AutoIt forum,

2. ChunkViewer:
- file lang_XX.lng should be in \Bin dir
- chunkviewer.ini should contain a Lang=XX variable in [ChunkViewer] section

3. InstantSupport:
- file lang_XX.lng should be in \InstantSupport_lang
- chunkvnc.ini should contain a Lang=XX variable in [ChunkVNC] section

Archive below contains working implementation of my idea. It is based on version 3.1.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3JFllMt1SOVMjU3MjRhYmYtYTI0OS00NmU4LWJjMmQtOTJmZmQxMjE5NjQx&hl=pl&authkey=CMWXt88L


I hope this will be useful to you.

matczar

[supercoe]

matczar,

Thanks for the hard work, I like what you've done here.

I've already implemented multi language support into 4.0, and although it's much more simple than what you've one here it seems to work.

[matczar]

It is not so complicated

My main goal was to make it easy to use, and I wanted to make the code contains the original phrases, not a variables like LANG_VAR1, LANG_VAR2, which are poorly understood.

[supercoe]

Sorry, I didn't mean for you think I meant yours was complicated.... I like your solution, I'm just past this stage for the next release.

Please provide input when the next release is out on how you think it could be improved!

Thanks

[guinness]

Yeh good idea! I think when it comes to translation each of us has a different way, I would have done it differently. That's not saying it's bad but we all have our different coding styles. Personally I am not a fan of so many include files and like to keep everything ideally consolidated in a single .au3 file (maybe not the best, but that's how I code.)

I prefer to have variables that are descriptive e.g.$BUTTON_CONNECT = "Connect", $LABEL_PASSWORD = "Password"

I was thinking that supercoe!! could have a single language file with multiple languages (submitted by users) instead of having separate files per language, the single language file could be in an INI style, e.g.

Lang_Total=3
[English]
TITLE=English
BUTTON_CONNECT=Connect
LABEL_PASSWORD=Password

[French]
TITLE=Français
BUTTON_CONNECT=contact
LABEL_PASSWORD=Mot de passe

[Spanish]
TITLE=Español
BUTTON_CONNECT=...
LABEL_PASSWORD=...

and then you would have dropdown box which shows the languages by using a 'Do' statement to populate the dropdown box etc... and then refresh GUI etc... etc...

These are ideas for V4.1 or V5 or V100?!

[supercoe]

Once again guinness, you've hit the nail right on the head!
We think alike

[voodoo3dfdx]

I can help to translate to portuguese > pt-br

[shoodabean]

and i can help with a russian translation

[supercoe]

Fantastic, I'll let you know when the language file is ready.

[twagner]

In the course of the project i will do the german translation (bad english i know, but my native german is better )

[JDaus]

I was thinking that supercoe!! could have a single language file with multiple languages (submitted by users) instead of having separate files per language, the single language file could be in an INI style, e.g.

I do this with scprompt, but now I have a problem that certain languages need UTF-8 encoding, will others fail to show the correct symbols ... so now I have to go to having separate files for the languages that cannot handle UTF-8 ...

[supercoe]

Maybe I could just remove the need for text all together and use cryptic symbols!

[B]

Hey, why not, Microsoft had the same idea with Office 2007, and somehow people seem to tolerate that monstrous destruction of standard UI design.

[supercoe]

Actually I quite like the ribbon bar....

[JDaus]

Maybe I could just remove the need for text all together and use cryptic symbols!

that's probably not as silly as it sounds.

For your application, some excellent symbols would likely work just as well ...

the only one that would be difficult is the service mode checkbox ... don't know what symbol you could use there ... unless its the gears icon like the service console uses ... hmm ... something to think about

[Noli]

I want to offer you my help to translate it to spanish.

[vpdd]

Multilanguage support!!!! GREAT;D


supercoe thanks for the project it is really easy to use. Can wait for 4.0

matczar thanks for the language translation script, is key for me until 4.0 release.

Thanks all others



Also Nole, I offer my help to translate it to spanish.

[Vetal1705]

I can help to translate on an Ukrainian and Russian languages. ovg7(dog)mail(point)ru