[Cuis] Multilingual applications in Cuis

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Germán,

For a desktop app, Squeak includes #translated, and the necessary 
functionality. The code is not complex, and it could be easily turned 
into an optional package for Cuis.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

Germán Arduino wrote:
> Thanks Janko!
>
> Interesting feature of Aida, I will take it in account certainly.
>
>
> In this case I was asking more focused in desktop app, because I'm
> thinking in a complete rewrite of my
> password manager, but will be a desktop app.
>
> Germán.
>
> 2013/1/28 Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
>   
>> Hi Germán,
>>
>> Dne 28. 01. 2013 17:49, piše Germán Arduino:
>>
>>     
>>> I'm in the early stage of development of my first commercial project
>>> in Cuis and I would like to offer it in, at least, spanish and english
>>> and, hopefully, in more languages with an easy way of add new
>>> languages.
>>>
>>> Are you thinking in some feature/framework to accomplish these goals in Cuis?
>>>       
>> In Aida there is a multilingual support including later translation
>> support of your web app to different languages.
>>
>> If you put your text directly in your code, you can later make it
>> translatable easily by changing it to a literal association, with
>> language code of original text as key and original text as value. For
>> instance:
>>
>> Original code looks like:
>>
>>         e addText: 'Bonjour'
>>
>> To enable it to become multilingual:
>>
>>     e addText: #fr->'Bonjour'.
>>
>> Ok, so far nothing happened on this page, there is still Bonjour, but
>> this text now became in-line editable (if your session is in translation
>> mode). So, to translate this text in Spanish, you would first change
>> default language of your session to Spanish:
>>
>>         http://localhost:8888/myapp?language=es
>>
>> Now click to edit that Bonjour to Hola and that's it. Aida goal namely
>> is to make as simple as possible for translators to translate your web
>> app in other languages.
>>
>> Translations are stored on the class side of App classes, so they are
>> easily maintained through regular Smalltalk source code systems.
>>
>> More on http://www.aidaweb.si/translation%20support
>>
>> Best regards
>> Janko
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Janko Mivšek
>> Aida/Web
>> Smalltalk Web Application Server
>> http://www.aidaweb.si
>>
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