[bt-devel] Locales on Window / MacOS

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Gary,

thanks for your suggestions. I changed the Mac specific code to
a) install the locales.d folder on "make install"
b) load the locales from this application locales folder (see
bibletime_init.cpp: initBackends)

I think this approach for loading the locales is simpler and more robust
than patching the sword.conf. What do you think?

I will continue to work on creating the sword.conf in the right place
initially on Mac OS.

Regards, mg

Am 07.07.10 04:08, schrieb Gary Holmlund:
> On 07/06/2010 01:15 PM, Martin Gruner wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>>   
>>>> reading through BT's code for windows, I noted that you do some fancy
>>>> tricks to get BibleTime to read the locales directory of the installed
>>>> Sword files of the Windows installer. It seems that it is possible to
>>>> construct an sword::LocaleMgr object directly, where we can pass the
>>>> directory to the constructor. Then we can set this as the LocaleMgr to
>>>> use by LocaleMgr::setSystemLocaleMgr. That would eliminate the need
>>>> for
>>>> us to patch config files just to add the locale path. Do you think
>>>> this
>>>> would be a good idea?
>>>>        
>>> I don't remember all the details of why I did it a certain way. I sent
>>> and received many emails with Matthew Talbert to get it going. Matthew
>>> knew how it worked for Xiphos on Windows and we tried to make them
>>> consistent. I did not try setting the LocaleMgr as you describe. I do
>>> remember that before I got all the present setup in place, there
>>> seemed to be a trade-off between finding the locale and also finding
>>> all of the module search paths.
>>>      
>> what would you think about including the locales in BibleTime and
>> installing them on "make install" so that we can consistently load them
>> from our installation in all target systems? I think that would be a
>> good idea.
>>    
> On linux they are part of the sword packages that are shared among
> several frontends of sword, so it does not seem good to do there.
>
> On Windows we don't have any separate sword packages, so we install
> the locales with BibleTime. I would think we would do the same on Mac.
>>>> Another question: when I start BT, and there is no
>>>> ~/.sword/sword.conf,
>>>> it will be created. Which code is responsible for that, is that BT or
>>>> Sword itself (and where exactly)? I didn't find it so far. On a
>>>> mac, the
>>>> default location of this file should be somewhere else, but I didn't
>>>> find how to change that.
>>>>        
>>> Look at BibleTime::initSwordConfigFile() in bibletime_init.cpp.
>>>      
>> Hm, it seems this function is only implemented on windows. But on other
>> platforms, the sword.conf is also written (thus on Mac, too), but I
>> don't know where, yet. Am I correct on that?
>>    
> I don't believe it is written on startup on linux. It is written by Bt
> when changing the "install folders" in the Bookshelf Manager dialog.
> Windows needed it to be created earlier so the locale could be
> specified. The locale being specified is needed when sword first is
> initialized. See setTargetList() in instbackend.cpp
>
>> Thanks, mg
>>    
> Gary
>
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