Re: Message Boxes / 5:3 Ratio

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

> That's a good rule.  And I recommend to write it this way:
> 
> if (druid_data.submit_type == SUBMIT_TO_SELF ||
>     druid_data.submit_type == SUBMIT_REPORT) {
>         GtkWidget *d;
>         char *m;
>         m = g_strdup_printf (_("\
> '%s' doesn't seem to exist. You won't be able to actually\n\
> submit a bug report, but you will be able to save it to a file.\n\
> \n\
> Specify a new location for sendmail?"), s);
>         d = gnome_question_dialog (m, NULL, NULL);
>         g_free (m);
>         if (GNOME_YES == gnome_dialog_run_and_close (GNOME_DIALOG (d)))
>             return TRUE;
> }

I think this is a bad way of doing it - what if you by accident indent
the lines? Try this instead

  (_(""
  "Some text here (...)\n"
  "More text here (...)\n"
  "\n"
  "Event more text here (...)\n"))

The compiler will automatically concatenate the strings.

-- 
Ole Laursen 
http://sunsite.dk/olau/