Language translators?

[nkh]

wow, thoes flags are huge!

[sub]

Yeah, I thought that too - but I decided to make them the same as the screenshots. I'll give them there own page when we get a couple more. The new page will have smaller flags!

[nkh]

okay, hehe, it made me think the site was about a soccer match between Denmark and Sweden all it needs is a 2-2 result between the flags

[CodeMonkey]

Sub, how would I go about using this in the weather plugin?
Right now, the text for the button is in the .png files. Would I use a blank button and write the text (from the language.xml file) onto it for each button? Is there some method all plugins could use to generate the button image with the proper text?

There are a lot more strings that should be added to this xml file for weather to use. I will create a weather.xml file and send it to sub to post for you multi-lingual guys .

[sub]

There has been a few enhancements to what GB-PVR provides in the way of plugin support clases.

The old method creating png files for the plugins still works, but I no longer use this approach. Instead I use the SkinHelper class which contains utility methods for constructing and caching buttons and other images, fonts, brushes etc. The comics plugin uses this if you're looking for an example.

For buttons you basically call:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
Hashtable buttonArgs = new Hashtable();
buttonArgs["@buttonText"] = "Play";
Image normalButtonImage = skinHelper.getNamedImage("NormalButton", buttonArgs);
[/QUOTE]
Take a look in some of the existing skin.xml files to see how the button image is 'described'.

For translations you call skinHelper.getTranslation() passing in any string you're going to display. If a translation exists, it is returned - otherwise the original string is returned.
e.g.
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">g.DrawString(skinHelper.getTranslation("Genre") + ":", ...[/QUOTE]

[Exirion]

MaBo says he will take care of the Dutch translation, but I'm also very willing to do that. Would a Greek translation be interesting? I could ask my girlfriend

[dottore]

here is a new translation: german.
just download it from here

[sub]

Thanks dottore, I've added it to the plugins page.

Keep 'em coming guys.

[CodeMonkey]

Quote[/b] (sub @ Aug. 24 2004,13:33)]The old method creating png files for the plugins still works, but I no longer use this approach. Instead I use the SkinHelper class which contains utility methods for constructing and caching buttons and other images, fonts, brushes etc. The comics plugin uses this if you're looking for an example.

For buttons you basically call:
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
Hashtable buttonArgs = new Hashtable();
buttonArgs["@buttonText"] = "Play";
Image normalButtonImage = skinHelper.getNamedImage("NormalButton", buttonArgs);

Take a look in some of the existing skin.xml files to see how the button image is 'described'.

For translations you call skinHelper.getTranslation() passing in any string you're going to display. If a translation exists, it is returned - otherwise the original string is returned.
e.g.
<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">g.DrawString(skinHelper.getTranslation("Genre") + ":", ...[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
Actually that getnamedImage stuff for buttons is not used in the comic plugin as far as I can see. Which makes sense because there are no buttons for that plugin

But in theory I could do this I assume:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">Hashtable buttonArgs = new Hashtable();
buttonArgs["@buttonText"] = skinHelper.getTranslation("Map");
Image normalMapButtonImage = skinHelper.getNamedImage("NormalButtonImage", buttonArgs);[/QUOTE]

Then redo the wetaher plugin code so that it has skin.xml similar to what the comic plugin uses.

[MaBo]

The Dutch version is ready. Well, last night, I realised that I did not translate available, failed and scheduled in the recordings menu. You see, I based my translation on the danish one and these terms were not there.

langauge.xml.nl

Will do that later.

Any comments are appreciated,
Greetz,
MaBo