Re: l10n with GtkItemFactory

[Evan Martin <martine cs washington edu>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:19:12PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> I have a menu bar, created using a GkItemFactory, I'd like to localize
> using the usual gettext calls.  So far, I've resolved the problem by
> passing the path string to the N_() macro, but I'd like to know if there
> is some way to make it more clean (for the translator's point of
> view)...

I'm not sure what exactly your problem is, but here's what I've done;
hopefully some part of this will answer your question. :P

Define your actions with an enum:

enum {
	...
	ACTION_FOO,
	...
};

And then the item factory entries are like this:
{
	...
	{ N_("/_File/_Foo"), NULL, foo_cb, ACTION_FOO },
	...
}

You can then retrieve those menu items via:

item = gtk_item_factory_get_widget_by_action(item_factory, ACTION_FOO);

Be sure that those strings get passed through gettext, too.
This is the function for it:

gtk_item_factory_set_translate_func(item_factory,
	gettext_translate_func, NULL, NULL);


Where gettext_translate_func is defined like this:

gchar*
gettext_translate_func(const gchar *path, gpointer data) {
    return gettext(path);
}

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