catalogs

[ilbarbax]

Hi,

I've seen on Holywood the commands to read the catalog entries, however there is not mention on how those files need to be structured or in general how is their behaviour.

[pecaN]

Hi,i've been thinking about catalogs too. I think that you should drop an email to the autor of LookHERE! This viewer makes use of them...

[Allanon]

Hello all,
I'm the author of LookHere!

I've not used catalogs because I don't know how they works and because I suspect they are complicated to manage, instead I've used tables indexed with a semplification of the text string to translate, let's say that I've in my program the following text:

'About'
'This is a sample application'
'Quit'

I have one table for every language with the following format:

English

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Translation = { about = "About",
                      simple_app = "This is a simple application",
                      quit = "Quit" }

Italian

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Translation = { about = "Circa",
                      simple_app = "Questa è una semplice applicazione",
                      quit = "Termina" }

Inside the code, instead of using strings I use table items:

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Function About()
   ; This function prints informations about the application
   DebugPrint(Translation.about)
   DebugPrint(Translation.simple_app)
EndFunction

LoadTable and SaveTable do the rest.

Regards,
Fabio

[pecaN]

Oh sorry Fabio didn't know you were Allanon and also sorry for blaming you using catalogs:-)...i have to study docs about catalogs but i only saw 3 commands for handling them so i hope it isn't so difficult. In BoingPairs i used tables e.g
a[0][0]="czech" a[0][1]="english". If player chose czech,game prints a[0][0],if english,then [0][1] pecaN

[ilbarbax]

Well... after some digging I arrived to the end to the catalog behaviour.

Nithing simpler ... they fully comply with Amiga catalog system.

You have to create a directory structure on your progdir as catalogs\yourcountryname (it must comply with the definition of the languages found on sys:locale\catalogs\yourcountryname). If you want you can save your catalog file in this last directory.

Then you have to use some tool to edit the catalog files. I used Simplecat available on aminet. It is a bit tricky because it does not allow you to imput the data from scratch, you have to copy one of the example .cs file and edit it with any text editor and modify with your messages. Then exoport as .catalog file

Once created the catalog file on your hollywood code use exactely the code suggested on the help/manual (you have to add dim for the vestors and obiosly define the defeualt values)

and... it works

Sandro