[jsword-devel] updates

Joe Walker jsword-devel@crosswire.org
Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:02:45 +0100


DM Smith wrote:

> Joe Walker wrote
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm down to 87 i18n strings to go. These however are the gnarly ones. 
>> These are mostly ones with mnemonics, so just blindly putting them 
>> into Msg won't work. The options that I can see are:
>> - take off the mnemonics
>> - move the mnemonics into the Msg file as well
>> - turn these instances into Actions
> 
> I think that these should be turned into Actions using the pattern of 
> the DesktopActionFactory.
> 
> I think that the internationalization of actions is a little bit 
> different from that of messages that it warrants a separate technique.

Makes sense.

>> We also need to fix the nightly build - I need to add some assertion 
>> switches,
> 
> Ultimately the code should be delivered with the assertions turned off 
> as they test conditions that cannot happen and that have no side effects.
> 
> I think that there is an ANT target that will run the application and 
> probably will need to have -ea as well.
> 
>> however the urgency for this is behind the urgency to fix the bizarre 
>> startup error that I'm getting at the moment!

> What is the bizarre startup error? I was getting one where the system 
> provided icons were used before they were loaded. Resulting in NPEs.

It's the ValidationError mentioned elsewhere. The solution is to revert 
to eclipse3m7.

Joe.