I have a GtkD application for Linux where I would like to support localization. The current options in D seem pretty limited with the most recent being i18n-d (https://github.com/JakobOvrum/i18n-d). My code is structured for GNU gettext but I could make the effort and convert it to the way i18n-d works if that's the best option. The only other issue I can see with it is that it doesn't support country-language variations and from past experience that's a pretty big deal (just ask any Brazilians!).

I'd prefer a GNU gettext implementation but I know that's not available since it has been listed as a GSOC project for a couple of years. I could roll my own GNU gettext implementation but that would be a significant effort taking away time from my project which I'd prefer to remain focused on.

Are there any other options out there that I might not be aware of?

On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 02:51:30 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> Are there any other options out there that I might not be aware of?

And of course, 10 minutes later you stumble across a potential option. Looks like GLib exposes gettext and GtkD does wrap it so I'll play around with that and see if I can get it working. My apologies for the noise.

On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 02:51:30 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> I have a GtkD application for Linux where I would like to support localization. The current options in D seem pretty limited with the most recent being i18n-d (https://github.com/JakobOvrum/i18n-d). My code is structured for GNU gettext but I could make the effort and convert it to the way i18n-d works if that's the best option. The only other issue I can see with it is that it doesn't support country-language variations and from past experience that's a pretty big deal (just ask any Brazilians!).

FWIW, country variation is on the TODO list (issue tracker).

> I'd prefer a GNU gettext implementation but I know that's not available since it has been listed as a GSOC project for a couple of years. I could roll my own GNU gettext implementation but that would be a significant effort taking away time from my project which I'd prefer to remain focused on.

Part of the point behind i18n-d is that we can do better than gettext in D.

On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 03:03:14 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 02:51:30 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>> Are there any other options out there that I might not be aware of?
>
> And of course, 10 minutes later you stumble across a potential option. Looks like GLib exposes gettext and GtkD does wrap it so I'll play around with that and see if I can get it working. My apologies for the noise.

Please, write a HowTo some where. GtkD lack of documentation it's very anoying.

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 09:04:48 UTC, Luis wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 03:03:14 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 02:51:30 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>>> Are there any other options out there that I might not be aware of?
>>
>> And of course, 10 minutes later you stumble across a potential option. Looks like GLib exposes gettext and GtkD does wrap it so I'll play around with that and see if I can get it working. My apologies for the noise.
>
> Please, write a HowTo some where. GtkD lack of documentation it's very anoying.

I'll keep that in mind as I know I've struggled with that myself. I have a couple of blog posts on GtkD on my site that cover how to do a couple of interesting things that you can view here http://gexperts.com and I'll probably add more as I have time. I've also contributed a couple of demos to GtkD, one for multithreading with GTK and the other on using GIO actions and popovers.

I also contributed a script that generates ddox for GtkD instead of candydoc, even though the content is the same the ddox is much better IMHO since it includes a search capability and cross references items. I hated in candydoc that it showed a method using GtkDialogFlags and I then had to grep for it to see what the flags actually are. In ddox it's all cross referenced so you can just click on the link to it to view it.

Finally, if you are interested you can follow my two GtkD based projects, terminix and vgrep, on github (https://github.com/gnunn1 for concrete examples of working with GtkD.

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 14:00:05 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 09:04:48 UTC, Luis wrote:
>> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 03:03:14 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 02:51:30 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>>>> Are there any other options out there that I might not be aware of?
>>>
>>> And of course, 10 minutes later you stumble across a potential option. Looks like GLib exposes gettext and GtkD does wrap it so I'll play around with that and see if I can get it working. My apologies for the noise.
>>
>> Please, write a HowTo some where. GtkD lack of documentation it's very anoying.
>
> I'll keep that in mind as I know I've struggled with that myself. I have a couple of blog posts on GtkD on my site that cover how to do a couple of interesting things that you can view here http://gexperts.com and I'll probably add more as I have time. I've also contributed a couple of demos to GtkD, one for multithreading with GTK and the other on using GIO actions and popovers.
>
> I also contributed a script that generates ddox for GtkD instead of candydoc, even though the content is the same the ddox is much better IMHO since it includes a search capability and cross references items. I hated in candydoc that it showed a method using GtkDialogFlags and I then had to grep for it to see what the flags actually are. In ddox it's all cross referenced so you can just click on the link to it to view it.
>
> Finally, if you are interested you can follow my two GtkD based projects, terminix and vgrep, on github (https://github.com/gnunn1 for concrete examples of working with GtkD.

I browse your code and grestful code a few times. I did stuff with GtkD on a different approach, using GtkBuilder and Gtk autolink of functions by name. I try to avoid generating the GUI interface by code, so I can do changes editing an XML with a visual tool. I need to clean my code base before anyone could try to use it as example. I wrote a few years ago on a quick & dirty way.

Were I can find the script to generate ddox for GtkD ?

PD: I'm the only guy that think that a hypothetical implementation of  GtkBuilder running on CTFE would be great ? So generates the GUI on compile time instead of parsing and generating stuff on runtime ?

On 01/18/2016 04:06 PM, Luis wrote:
> Were I can find the script to generate ddox for GtkD ?

https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/blob/master/makeddox.sh

-- 
Mike Wey

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 15:06:12 UTC, Luis wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 14:00:05 UTC, Gerald wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I browse your code and grestful code a few times. I did stuff with GtkD on a different approach, using GtkBuilder and Gtk autolink of functions by name. I try to avoid generating the GUI interface by code, so I can do changes editing an XML with a visual tool. I need to clean my code base before anyone could try to use it as example. I wrote a few years ago on a quick & dirty way.
>
> Were I can find the script to generate ddox for GtkD ?
>
> PD: I'm the only guy that think that a hypothetical implementation of  GtkBuilder running on CTFE would be great ? So generates the GUI on compile time instead of parsing and generating stuff on runtime ?

+1

Am Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:00:05 +0000
schrieb Gerald <me@me.com>:

> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 09:04:48 UTC, Luis wrote:
> > On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 03:03:14 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> >> On Sunday, 17 January 2016 at 02:51:30 UTC, Gerald wrote:
> >>> Are there any other options out there that I might not be aware of?
> >>
> >> And of course, 10 minutes later you stumble across a potential option. Looks like GLib exposes gettext and GtkD does wrap it so I'll play around with that and see if I can get it working. My apologies for the noise.
> >
> > Please, write a HowTo some where. GtkD lack of documentation it's very anoying.
> 
> I'll keep that in mind as I know I've struggled with that myself. I have a couple of blog posts on GtkD on my site that cover how to do a couple of interesting things that you can view here http://gexperts.com and I'll probably add more as I have time. I've also contributed a couple of demos to GtkD, one for multithreading with GTK and the other on using GIO actions and popovers.
> 

Nice stuff. You should do some advertising for these nice blog posts. Posting to D.announce and adding links from gtkd.org would be great.

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 09:04:48 UTC, Luis wrote:
> Please, write a HowTo some where. GtkD lack of documentation it's very anoying.

I've gotten this going with Terminix and posted some information what it took to get it going here:

http://gexperts.com/wp/gtkd-and-localization/