Re: RFC: Resource editing and validation

2009-04-15 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Vincent Povirk wrote: [...] > I don't think a dependency on po/gettext and the resulting two > translation systems instead of one is a good idea. I think it is best > to use the existing rc system to translate all text. The problem is there is no translation tool that knows how

Re: RFC: Resource editing and validation

2009-04-07 Thread Vincent Povirk
+1 A box model is really the way to go here. This is how the real toolkits do it; you don't translate the entire layout, just the text. The toolkit generates a suitable layout at runtime based on the text sizes. That makes it much easier to edit dialogs. We are stuck with the inferior Windows dia

Re: RFC: Resource editing and validation

2009-04-06 Thread Reece Dunn
2009/4/6 Warren Dumortier : > Yeah, why not. > > But that was not really hard at all, if you use a calculator to > calculate x and y coords. I could easily change winecfg for my patch. > IMO it is not really needed as winecfg doesn't change a lot... The issue is not so much that winecfg changes a

RFC: Resource editing and validation

2009-04-06 Thread Reece Dunn
Hi, This is something I have been thinking about for a while and is triggered by a comment by Austin on the "How can we improve WINE" thread that is floating around. In short, this is aiming to discuss and seek a resolution to issues encountered when editing resource files -- in particular dialog