[Xerte-dev] Re: Translatable button labels in XOT

Pat @ Pgogy xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Sun Mar 17 11:39:44 GMT 2013


The pods are in the database though aren't they?

Also - they might be obsolete soon?

I am wondering if the upload script in management could be an unzipper that isn't too fussy on file structures?

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On 17 Mar 2013, at 11:23, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

> One of the last steps in making XOT multilanguage is the ability to translate button labels.
> 
> A lot of buttons are roll-over images, so one solution is to provide roll-over images in all the appropriate languages, but this turned out to be very tedious and time consuming, so I took another approach. I replaced all roll-over buttons with <button>
> 
> I added a 'xerte_buttons.css' as well, and perhaps someone with more CSS knowledge should have a look at that.
> 
> While I was at it, I also changed all 'action' URL's to buttons as well. It's much clearer now (in my opinion) when something is am action, or when something is a link.
> 
> Please let me know if you encounter any issues with functionality after my changes.
> 
> Last two remaining things to really finish up internationalisation is
> 1. the ability to make the 'pods' on the login page in language dependent.
> 2. the ability to upload a language package in management.php.
> 
> Tom
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