RE: [FR-devel] [Foxgui-users]Very alpha version of FR debugger inCVS

[Curt Hibbs]

Let me study this and then I'll give you some feedback.

Curt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Horacio Lopez
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:15 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [FR-devel] [Foxgui-users]Very alpha version of FR debugger
> inCVS
>
>
> >
> > Curt
> > I'd still like to get a rudimentary "gettext" like facility in there for
> > internationalization, and we could use a help facility with minimal
> > documentation.
> >
>
> I got my hands on it...
> I will release it ASAP !!
>
> I am designing it so that you can use different
> text databases, and you don't have to deal
> with the gettext innards yourself.
>
>
> I'm still trying to decide what gettext module is
> the best for our purposes.
> For now I will try to provide something
> as rubiesque as I can.
>
> # Opening a language resource database:
> # -------------------------------------
> langdb = LanguageRepository.new("gettext","./langdb/freeride.po")
>
> langdb = LanguageRepository.new("xml", "./langdb/freeride.xml")
>
> langdb = LanguageRepository.new("dbi", "mysql:freeride" )
>
> langdb = LanguageRepository.new("gdb","./langdb/freeride.gdb")
>
> # Once you open a language resource database
> # you can retrieve a language set for your application
> # In the case of file-based systems like gettext .pos
> # -----------------------------------------------------
> L = langdb.Language("myapp")
> L.select("en-us");
> puts L?"PRESS_ANY_KEY"
>
> # you also could do things like:
> mybutton.setlabel( L?"DELETE" )
>
> # search text in the language database using
> # euc-kr korean encoding, but retrieve text from
> # the database as utf-8 strings
> L.SetEncodingInput("euc-kr")
> L.SetEncodingOutput("utf-8")
>
> # Inserting a new language string
>
> L.store("es-sp", "HELLO", "Hola" )
> L.commit
>
>
> # moving strings from one database to another
> gt_len_db = LanguageRepository.new("gettext","./langdb/freeride_en.po")
> gt_lsp_db = LanguageRepository.new("gettext","./langdb/freeride_sp.po")
>
> xml_outdb = LanguageRepository.new("xml","./langdb/freeride.xml")
>
> E = gt_len_db.Language("myapp")
> S = gt_lsp_db.Language("myapp")
>
> S.SetCharsetInput("iso-8859-1")
> S.SetCharsetOutput("iso-8859-1")
>
> E.SetCharsetInput("us-ascii")
> E.SetCharsetOutput("us-ascii")
>
> O = xml_outb.Language("myapp")
> O.SetCharset("iso-8859-1","iso-8859-1")
> O << "es-sp"
>
> O.store( E?"TEXT_PRESS_ANY_KEY" )
> O.store( E?"BUTTON_HELP" )
> O.store( E?"BUTTON_DELETE" )
> O.store( E?"MENUOPTION_FILE" )
> O.store( E?"MENUOPTION_EXIT" )
>
> O.select("es-sp")
> O.store( S?"TEXT_PRESS_ANY_KEY" )
> O.store( S?"BUTTON_HELP" )
> O.store( S?"BUTTON_DELETE" )
> O.store( S?"MENUOPTION_FILE" )
> O.store( S?"MENUOPTION_EXIT" )
>
> O.commit
>
> # Now the text is retrieved form the XML database
> puts O?"TEXT_PRESS_ANY_KEY"
>
> # You don't know the hash key, but you know
> # how to spell it in your language:
> O << "en-us"
> O >> "es-sp"
> # output in spanish -->  Pulse una tecla
> puts O("Press any key")
>
> # Translating a text file
> f = File.open("mykeys.txt")
> f.each do |line|
>   print O(line)
> end
> f.close
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> FreeBASE should have its own database, the same way
> separate plug-ins should have separate ones too.
>
> Work ahead:
> * define standards for database storage
>   + DTD for XML databases
>   + SQL schema for rdbms based databases
>
> * stabilize api
>
>
> maybe you have better ideas, or suggest a different syntax
> that's what's in the works right now.
>
> after I got this, I will create a visual plug-in
> that can:
>
> * show the contents of a language repository
>
> * edit its contents
>
> * extract strings in the form L?"text" from
>   ruby source code, and generate a language database
>   from it.
>
> Alternatively, we could use the language repositories
> for storage of help files too
>
> Quirks ? Misconceptions ?  Awful code ?
> Please let me know what you don't like
> it's still early enough to redesign.
>
> I know I've been slow , damn too slow
> code and documentation SOON, SOON, SOON
>
> cheers
>
> vruz
>
>
>
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