Re: [Audacity-devel] Refactoring Menus/Commands/Keys

[Joshua H. <jo...@re...>]

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:55, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> Joshua Haberman wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:41, Dominic Mazzoni wrote:
> > 
> >>2. In the commands/ directory, I'm going to refactor some
> >>    of Brian's classes so that they become generic classes
> >>    for building a menu bar, associating IDs with menus,
> >>    reading and writing XML files for keybindings, and
> >>    dispatching commands based on keypresses.
> > 
> > 
> > I still wish we could use the XRC system already written for use with
> > wxWindows.  The main problem is that is isn't built as part of wxWindows
> > by default.  From what I've read in the manual, it seems possible that
> > we could include just the XRC source code in lib-src and link against
> > that.
> 
> XRC does seem pretty cool.  It's small enough that I don't see why
> we couldn't just add it to lib-src.
> 
> How would we handle translations, though?

See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/wxPython-users/1543249
Apparently you can generate a .po file from an .xrc file, and xrc will
automatically translate the resource when you load it!

Josh