Localization of TAChart: Translators needed
lazarus / 55-TAChart

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wp · 2015-12-12 22:10

The current trunk version of TAChart is localized now. Currently there
is only one translation (German). I would appreciate if users would
contribute translations in their native language. The file to be
translated is called TAChartStrConsts.po and resides in the
"languages" folder of the TAChart installation. Use POEdit for
translation, and save the file with the language code inserted before
the ".po", i.e. an Italian translation file would be named
"TAChartStrConsts.it.po". Submit the file by means of a bugtracker
report, or upload it here.

A note to rare users having written their own series, tool or
transformation types: The registration procedure had to be modified a
little bit. So far, a new series type has been registered by calling
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i
initialization  RegisterSeriesClass(TMySpecialSeries, 'Special
series');The second parameter, the string, is used in the series
editor for selection of the series types. In order to allow
translation of these strings, the parameter is replaced by the address
of the string which is a resourcestring preferrably:
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i
resourestring  rsSpecialSeries = 'Special series';initalization 
RegisterSeriesClass(TMySpecialSeries, @rsSpecialSeries);The same holds
true for user-written ChartTools and AxisTransformations.

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fpcoder · 2015-12-13 02:43

Hi wp, I made a Swedish translation. How to get it into the chart to
verify it there? POEdit didn't show swedish chars correctly so I made
it by hand.

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wp · 2015-12-13 10:28

Thank you for your contribution, I just uploaded it to trunk (-->
r50760).

I should have been more specific: TAChart does not expose translated
strings for programs, the translation affects the Lazarus designer
only. So, to test your translation, switch the Lazarus language to
Swedish, restart Lazarus, add a chart to a new form, right-click on
the form -> the first popup menu item ("Edit series") should be in
Swedish now. The Series editor should have button captions in your
language, and after clicking at "Add" you should see the series type
names in Swedish as well. The same with the Transformations and
ChartTools editors. And if you add a TListChartSource and click on the
"..." of "DataPoints" in the object inspector you should see the
Datapoint editor in Swedish as well.