[Adium-devl] Issues with translated preferences

[Kiel Gillard]

Aren't those hard coded strings toolbar item identifiers? That is,  
they're not supposed to be human readable they're just used purely  
for the internal workings of Adium?

Kiel
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On 17/04/2007, at 9:50 PM, Christopher Harms wrote:

> Hi again,
> sorry, for double-mailing, but I think this is more a bug than  
> something done for purpose.
> The problem is, that the [[[AIObject sharedAdiumInstance]  
> preferenceController] paneArray]-Array (s.  
> AIPreferenceWindowController.m, line 69) contains the panes with  
> translated captions (loaded from the translated nib-files of  
> course). By calling setPanesOrder: the Controller doesn't know what  
> to do, because you are giving him the English names, which he  
> doesn't know (from the paneArray he only knows the German-or- 
> whatever names). (Hard-coded strings suck. ;-))
> I don't have a fix for this by now, because I'm not sure how all  
> the stuff works, but as soon as I have something for this, I'm  
> uploading a patch to Trac.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher
>
> Am 17.04.2007 um 12:56 schrieb Christopher Harms:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm not sure if you are aware of this and I'm not sure if this is
>> sufficient to create a new bug report, since it's about the
>> development-sources.
>>
>> Whenever I compile the current Adium-source and open the Preferences-
>> window I online see the "Status"-pane and no toolbar. The problem is,
>> that SS_PrefsController loads only this specific pane (see debuglog
>> says that there is no toolbar, because only one pane is loaded [s.
>> SS_PrefsController.m, l. 479]).
>> The reason is, that I'm working on a German MacOS  X, so Adium loads
>> the German translation of all nib-Files.
>> In AIPreferenceWindowController.m, line 72 it says:
>> 		[prefsController setPanesOrder:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:
>> 			@"Accounts",
>> 			NSToolbarSeparatorItemIdentifier,
>> 			@"General", @"Personal", @"Appearance", @"Messages", @"Status",
>> @"Events", @"File Transfer", @"Advanced", nil]];
>> I guess, prefsController is now going to load Views, titled with
>> "General", "Personal", etc. But though the panes and views (i.e. the
>> nib-files) are translated the loader won't find anything, because
>> they are now titled with "Allgemein", "Persönlich", etc. (i.e. the
>> German translations).
>>
>> Is this a known issue?
>> I would just go ahead to fix this bug, but I'm still diving into the
>> code and I'm not finished with unterstanding it. ;-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Christopher
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