Re: xgettext not extracting strings in a Glade GtkListStore

[Kip Warner <kip thevertigo com>]

On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 00:08 -0700, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug in xgettext or not, but I figured I'd run
> it by this list before possibly posting on bug-gettext gnu org 
>
> I have a sample GtkListStore declared within a Glade file containing a
> single row with one column of type gchararray. Note that the string is
> marked as translatable="yes". When I pass it through xgettext, it does
> not appear to see the localizable string in the GtkListStore.
>
>         $ cat minimal.glade 
>         <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>         <interface>
>           <!-- interface-requires gtk+ 3.0 -->
>           <object class="GtkListStore" id="liststore1">
>             <columns>
>               <!-- column-name column_name -->
>               <column type="gchararray"/>
>             </columns>
>             <data>
>               <row>
>                 <col id="0" translatable="yes">stuff</col>
>               </row>
>             </data>
>           </object>
>           <object class="GtkWindow" id="window1">
>             <property name="can_focus">False</property>
>             <child>
>               <object class="GtkComboBox" id="combobox1">
>                 <property name="visible">True</property>
>                 <property name="can_focus">False</property>
>                 <property name="model">liststore1</property>
>               </object>
>             </child>
>           </object>
>         </interface>
>
> I am using xgettext as follows, without any foo.pot being generated
> against the above minimal:
>
>         $ xgettext --language Glade minimal.glade --output=foo.pot

In case anyone else is having this problem, this was fixed in xgettext
0.18.3 with support for Glade 3.[1]

[1] <https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7641>

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