Re: About internationalization, again

[David Chisnall]

On 5 Feb 2009, at 19:12, Germán Arias wrote:

> Hi, after try many ways to internationalize my app, I do that with two
> gorm files, one in English and other in Spanish. Then I add in the
> main.m file this
>
>  NSArray *lenguajes = [NSUserDefaults userLanguages] ;
>  NSString *preferido = [lenguajes objectAtIndex: 0] ;

These lines are before you create the autorelease pool.  Most GNUstep  
methods require an autorelease pool to exist.

>  CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL (pool);

This line should be first.

>  NSApp = [NSApplication sharedApplication];
>
>  if([preferido hasSuffix: @"Spanish"])
>  {
>  [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"Trad2_es.gorm" owner:NSApp];
>  }
>  else
>  {
>  [NSBundle loadNibNamed:@"Trad2.gorm" owner:NSApp];
>  }
>
>  [NSApp run] ;

None of this is required.  If you put your resources in English.lproj/  
Spanish.lproj/ (Espanol.lproj/ ?) and so on, and set them as localised  
resources in the GNUmakefile then the correct one will be picked from  
the user's preferences.

Note that your version will pick English even if the user's  
preferences are Portuguese then Spanish then English.

>  [NSApp release] ;
>  [pool realese] ;

You don't really need to do this.  All memory will be cleaned up by  
the OS when the app exits.  Things that need to do something before  
the app exits should listen for  
NSApplicationWillTerminateNotifications, rather than relying on - 
dealloc being called.

>  return NSApplicationMain (argc, argv);

This line is entirely wrong.  When the app exits, it will then enter  
NSApplicationMain, which creates NSApp and runs the app...

David