Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] GPSBabel translations

[Jean-Pierre B. <jpb...@gm...>]

Hi Robert,

Sorry for the delay to answer, I was working with another computer.
I've done some experimentations, and here's the situation:
1    Move "gpsbabelfe_fr.ts" up one directory (out of "translations"/ in 
"GPSBabel") ==> No difference at all
2    Move "gpsbabel_fr.ts" up one directory as well ==> Same
3    Move "gpsbabelfe_fr.qm" up one directory and move the *.ts files 
back to "translations" ==> It works !! BUT if and only if GPSBabelfe.exe 
is launched from its install directory (i.e. "GPSBabel")

Conclusions:

1    It's only the *.qm files that count, the *.ts ones are just the 
sources used to compile the *.qm
2    GPSBabelfe.exe obviously looks for such files _only in the 
directory from which it is launched_ (which can be just anywhere: in my 
case it was the desktop where I created the shortcut) instead of 
"calling home" in its "translations" directory. That's why/how Erik's 
trick works.

Just to prove it: I create a shortcut to GPSBabel.exe on my desktop, 
without specifying in which directory to start. I launched GPSBabel with 
this shortcut and it worked in English, even though my OS is French. I 
then copied "gpsbabelfe_fr.qm" to my desktop, launched again GPSBabel 
from there and it worked in French. QED.

PS: I forgot to say what a fantastic piece of software GPSBabel is, and 
to thank you for that and for your support!

Le 29/07/2011 00:58, Robert Lipe a écrit :
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Jean-Pierre Barboux 
> <jpb...@gm... <mailto:jpb...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Robert,
>
>     There ain't no "gpsbabel.qm" in that directory (translations), nor
>     in any other directory for that matter.
>     It might be wise to check the windows installer prior to digging
>     in the code ?
>
>
> Gah.   Right.  English is built-in, there's no translation for it. 
>  Sorry for the misstep.
>
> But you should have a gpsbabel_de.ts, and similar for es, fr, it, and hu.
>
> I do see a potential disconnect.     On Windows, the installer shoves 
> our translations into a directory named "translations".   It's not 
> clear if that's a Windows convention that TranslationsPath should know 
> about.
>
> Could you please revert to the failing case and see if moving 
> gpsbabelfe_fr.ts up one directory (out of translations/ in our 
> installed area) brings things back for you?   If so, I just need to 
> add a hit for the translations/ directory in the search.
>
>     Anyway, Erik's workaround is working fine, so this whole question
>     is just a minor annoyance.
>
>
> This should Just Work.   Clearly, your English is very good, but since 
> we have the translations (and I'm wondering if nobody's noticed that 
> they've been broken for two years or if there's something special 
> about the systems mentioned here) we should definitely be providing 
> them for those that don't speak English.
>
> Thanx.
>
> RJL
>
>
>     JP
>
>     Le 28/07/2011 23:17, Robert Lipe a écrit :
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jean-Pierre Barboux
>>     <jpb...@gm... <mailto:jpb...@gm...>> wrote:
>>
>>         Thanks Erik. This does the trick for me as well.
>>
>>
>>     Baffling.   Even if you're not a programmer, please read along
>>     and see where we're jumping the rails.  The code in question
>>     <http://code.google.com/p/gpsbabel/source/browse/trunk/gpsbabel/gui/main.cpp#49>
>>     is
>>
>>      
>>     xlator->load(QLibraryInfo::location(QLibraryInfo::TranslationsPath)
>>     + "/" + nm
>>      + QLocale::system().name());
>>
>>       xlator->load(nm + QLocale::system().name());
>>
>>
>>     OK, technically the path separator should be OS-specific, but
>>     that really hasn't mattered since like DOS 2.0. And we shouldn't
>>     call system().name() twice.
>>
>>     location(...TranslationsPath) should the directory whence the
>>     translations are stored.
>>     http://doc.qt.nokia.com/stable/qlibraryinfo.html#LibraryLocation-enum
>>
>>     "nm" is name of the thing we're loading ("gpsbabelfe_" for our
>>     translations, "qt_" for things like "OK", "Cancel" and "Help"
>>     that appear in the various UI components" and
>>     QLocale::system().name() should return "de" for German, "ru" for
>>     russian, etc.
>>
>>     Please verify that "gpsbabel.qm" and are in the same directory.
>>      If they are, I'm not sure why it's finding English and not German.
>>
>>     RJL
>>
>>         Jean-Pierre Barboux
>>
>>
>>
>>         Le 22/07/2011 09:45, Erik Krause a écrit :
>>         > Am 19.07.2011 14:56, schrieb Jean-Pierre Barboux:
>>         >> The question is: how on earth do I ask GPSBabel to switch
>>         to another
>>         >> language ???
>>         > Same problem here. Windows 7 x64 german version. GPSBabelfe
>>         starts in
>>         > english. If I set "Run in" in a GPSBabelfe shortcut to the
>>         translations
>>         > folder it runs in german. So this might be a workaround. I
>>         guess the
>>         > program simply doesn't look in the right folder...
>>         >
>>
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