Re: make_strings

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 03/12/13 09:12, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Here the localization happens inside of the macro 
> MAKE_LOCALIZED_LABEL, you should pull the localization code out 
> otherwise make_strings wont be able to extract the text.
agreed. I removed the Macro!
> > 2013-03-10 21:56:11.250 make_strings[12862] unable to parse call to
> > 'NSLocalizedString' at ../GWFunctions.m:307
>
> Again no chance for make_strings to extract the actual string. This 
> will make it very hard to port your application to other languages. 
> The localization belongs into the caller.
Agreed. It did cost me several hours, but I replaced all occourences of 
that function with the standard calls so that the lcoalization happens 
in the caller.
> > make_strings: Uncaught exception NSRangeException, reason: in
> > substringWithRange:, range { 0, 2147483647 } extends beyond size (69)
>
> Just run make_strings in gdb and set a breakpoint on [NSException 
> raise], that is the only way to tell.
Now that is the only error that remains. It did not change.
make_strings: Uncaught exception NSRangeException, reason: in 
substringWithRange:, range { 0, 2147483647 } extends beyond size (69)

#0  -[NSException raise] (self=0xbb0b7c64, _cmd=0xbbb74528)
    at NSException.m:955
#1  0xbb89f797 in +[NSException raise:format:arguments:] (self=0xbbb74340,
    _cmd=0xbbb74510, name=0xbbb74688, format=0xbbb55150,
    argList=0xbfbfe488 "õö¼»") at NSException.m:849
#2  0xbb8a03dc in +[NSException raise:format:] (self=0xbbb74340,
    _cmd=0xbbb54f40, name=0xbbb74688, format=0xbbb55150) at 
NSException.m:835
#3  0xbb80420b in -[GSCSubString substringWithRange:] (self=0xbb0b7664,
    _cmd=0xbbba7020, aRange=...) at GSString.m:3870
#4  0xbb94eefd in -[NSString substringToIndex:] (self=0xbb0b7664,
    _cmd=0x80516b0, index=2147483647) at NSString.m:1962
#5  0x0804e51b in -[StringsFile initWithFile:] (self=0xbb0b7424,
    _cmd=0x8050660, filename=0xbb0b73a4) at StringsFile.m:186
#6  0x0804a22d in UpdateTable (filename=0xbb0b73a4, source_table=0xbb0a0944)
    at make_strings.m:461
#7  HandleLanguage (source_entries=0xbb0486a4, language_name=0xbb097884)
    at make_strings.m:490
#8  gnustep_base_user_main (argc=-1157330956, argv=0xbfbfe6d0)
    at make_strings.m:612
#9  0xbb922ea0 in main (argc=19, argv=0xbfbfe6d0, env=0xbfbfe720)
    at NSProcessInfo.m:984
#10 0x08048fd3 in ___start ()
#11 0x08048e98 in _start ()

at frame 4,
#4  0xbb94eefd in -[NSString substringToIndex:] (self=0xbb0b7664,
    _cmd=0x80516b0, index=2147483647) at NSString.m:1962
1962      return [self substringWithRange: ((NSRange){0,index})];
(gdb) po self
 ----------------------- menu strings --------------------------- *\

at frame 5
(gdb) po user_comment
 Se que la traduccion es muy mejorable
 He revisado y actualizado la traduccion. Quique

(gdb) p pos
$1 = 2147483647

so the position is totally off.

a frame further up:
(gdb) po filename
Spanish.lproj/Localizable.strings

could it be that multi-line comments are not supported and a */ is 
expected at every line?? or perhaps I am interpreting the code wrong...

Riccardo