Re: i18n problem

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 15:51:54 -0300
John Coppens <john jcoppens com> wrote:

> Hello people.
>
> Since a few weeks, I put a Smith Charting program on the 'net, and when
> a few users wanted to translate, I added i18n support to the program.
> Everything goes fine, except for a few strings... Could someone indicate
> me where the problem is?
>
> I declared:
>
> typedef struct {
>   char *hdr;
>   int w;
> } loaddef[] = {
>   {N_("F (MHz)"), 60},
>   {N_("Real"),    50},
>   {N_("Imag"),    50}
> };
>
> And later in the program, I used:
>
>     col = gtk_tree_view_column_new_with_attributes(
>                 _(loaddef[def].hdr),
>                 renderer, "text", def,
>                 NULL);
>
> That seemed quite straightforward, but the title are not translated for
> some reason.
>
> Ideas?
> John

Problem solved - it was really a Glade issue - as far as I can see, never
mentioned in the manuals:

Each source file - with translatable strings - has to contain:

#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#  include <config.h>
#endif

at the beginning.

John