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- Subject: Re: New Template format discussion document
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.202343.15937@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:23:43 GMT
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- tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat) writes:
-
- >>Argh! What about simply specifying that the text held in the icon is a
- >>messagetrans tag? Then the template-loading code can lookup the necessary
- >>text from the specified language-dependant messages file.
-
- >Ok, but what about the practical implementation ? Do we specify a bit which
- >determines the kind of text : plain text or messagetrans tag and define a
- >path where the template, euh sorry, Glass editor can find the messagetrans
- >files ? Or do we define more explicitly in the Glass file which languages
- >are supported with explicit filenames (instead of a path) ?
-
- I would say the easiest way is to specify a bit which indicates that the
- text is actually a tag, and then in the application-side support code that
- is supplied with the template editor, put in a method by which these
- text items can be 'expanded'. Off the top of my head, I'd say a nice way to
- approach this might be to register a messagetrans decoding function with
- the support code, so it calls some user-defined function, passing in the
- tag, and gets back a pointer to the actual string...
-
- >I hope we never *have to* deal with messagetrans tags ourselves. Automatic
- >generation of such tags would be very helpful.
-
- Yes. It would be a very good idea if !Glazier actually automatically generated
- a messagetrans tag, and spat out a file of messages with the actual text you
- typed in to the icon, automatically...
-
- And as it's agoing to be a resource manager, it could also allow editing of
- the messages file as well - easy to implement now that the ExtEdit protocol
- is available... ;-) plug plug!
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