Re: Localizing MainMenu.xib?
Re: Localizing MainMenu.xib?
- Subject: Re: Localizing MainMenu.xib?
- From: John Pannell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:10:51 -0700
Hi Marc-
Matt Gemmell has a localized nibs package that includes the standard main menu nib in a variety of languages...
http://mattgemmell.com/source/
It is about 3/4 the way down the page... hope this helps!
John
On Feb 29, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Marc Respass wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My application is completely localized (though only two languages) everywhere except the menu bar. I'm not sure what the best approach is to localize the main menu. Some items like undo/redo are localized for me. Others are not. I admit that I am a little surprised that standard system menu items like copy and paste are not localized but confused that others are -- which ones do I have to localize and which are handled by the system?
>
> Do I have to go through MainMenu.xib and translate every item? What are others doing? Is it best to localize the xib itself or programmatically modify the main menu at startup? Although doing the localization programmatically does not seem like the best idea, it is what I'm doing in every other xib so I only maintain English versions of the xibs and handle localization programmatically (Auto-Layout certainly makes that a whole lot easier so great job Apple on that).
>
> I guess it just seems strange that this work is being duplicated for every app. I hate the idea that I'm going to run apps like TextEdit and Mail taking pictures of menu items and translating them and the idea that it must be done each time for every new application.
>
> Thanks a lot
> Marc
>
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