Re: i18n: label vs. clist title?

[Dermot Musgrove <dermot glade perl connectfree co uk>]

eichin-gtk-perl thok org wrote:
> I have a <class>GtkCList</class> with <class>GtkLabel</class>
> <child_name>CList:title</child_name>, two of them even (column
> headings), one is <label>Property</label> and the other is
> <label>Value</label>.  I also have two standalone
> <class>GtkLabel</class>, one is <label>Value:</label>, the other is
> <label>Property Name:</label>.  These all show up in the
> <translatable_strings_file>:
> gchar *s = N_("Property");
> gchar *s = N_("Value");
> gchar *s = N_("Property Name:");
> gchar *s = N_("Value:");
>
> and from there, in the app.po file:
[...]
> and from there via msgmerge, they show up in the fr.po file:
[...]
> They do even appear in the app.mo file:
[...]
> Attribut^ Nom de l'attribut^ Valeur^@Valeur:^@
>
> When I run the app, however, only the standalone labels (Nom de
> l'attribut and Valeur:) get translated.  The labels in the CList (the
> column headings) do not.  What am I missing, or is there a bug here?
> This is my first real experience with gettext and translations (I'm
> only doing a high-school-french level translation as an example so I
> can verify that it all works...)
Hi Mark,

The column labels are just normal labels and Glade-Perl generates them
like $widgets->{'label60'} = new Gtk::Label(_('Property'));

(Notice the _() sub that does the translation.)

There are a few reasons that the translation may not be done:

1) You have edited the UI construction class and removed the _() call
    Easy to fix - generate again or edit again.
2) The Label text doesn't have a translation - check that there is no
    trailing space and that there really is a value for it everywhere.
3) The .mo file loaded is not the latest one.
    Check the translations that actually get loaded by calling:

  use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($Glade::PerlRun::I18N);

sometime after the call to '$class->load_translations('your_app');'

The '__MO_HEADER_INFO' key will show you all the .mo details that
you set in the .po file.

HTH, Dermot