Re: How to create a simple multilingual GUI

[Gabriel Schulhof <nix go-nix ca>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 02:19 +0200, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:
> Run-time switching of languages is not
> possible http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313736

Oh, it's possible, just very difficult. You have to keep all your
user-string-displaying widgets in a list, and set the label/text for
each of them every time the language changes, and after notifying
gettext of the change.

This can quickly turn into a nightmare, because the width of labels
tends to change from language to language, and non-resizable windows
will not re-shrink after a "verbose" language.



Gabriel