Re: [Panicbutton-translators] Pause in development

[Russ P. <ru...@ph...>]

On 15/08/06, Gerard Jensen <ger...@a2...> wrote:

> While going through the sourcecode of the 2.3 version I found a couple
> of translation issues we might have to have a better look at: a couple
> of times you copy files "to" locations - the string "to" however does
> not appear in the .pot file. The same applies to the "seconds" for the
> delay of the screenshot - that word too needs to be translated, yet the
> string isn't yet in the .pot file.

Right, I'll look into that (and all the other issues you've raised)
once I get my computer back into a usable state.

> Since I do have the intention to ship out a "German" version real soon
> now though, I have so far handcoded the changes into the current 2.3
> release.

Excellent :-)

> That will also give me the chance to make screenshots of the translated
> version, update the helpfile accordingly - and supply my first customers
> with an "interims" version of a translated Panic Button.
>
> All that (including the source of course)will be made available at
> http://www.a2b-consulting.com/ "real soon now"... ;-)

Let me know when it's available. If you have no objection, I'd like to
link to it and/or add it to the files available from SF.net so that
others can benefit.

> What I noticed wasn't documented anywhere yet: if any other developer
> would like to compile the Python sources into an executable too, they'll
> require "py2exe" from http://www.py2exe.org/ to do so.
>
> Since this is an extension of Python, you should have Python installed
> before you try to install py2exe ;-)

Everything a developer needs to know *should* be documented. There are
two files that you should read if you are compiling your own copy:

_Notes.txt [1] (named that way so that Windows puts it at the top of
the list when sorted by name)
PanicButton.ncd [2]

_Notes.txt is intended to be a set of notes to make life easier for
anyone wanting to compile their own copy of Panic Button.
PanicButton.ncd is a set of notes that I use to remember things. It's
currently out of date (it says that the fr*.py files haven't had
strings marked for translation, but they have) but it has various
useful notes.

PanicButton.ncd is a Notecase [3] file, but Notecase stores files as a
HTML file, so if you don't have and don't want Notecase, you can view
the file in any browser. You might have to rename it to have a .html
extension first, though.

Russ


[1] http://panicbutton.cvs.sourceforge.net/panicbutton/panicbutton/_Notes.txt?view=log
[2] http://panicbutton.cvs.sourceforge.net/panicbutton/panicbutton/PanicButton.ncd?view=log
[3] http://notecase.sourceforge.net/