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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/john%40positivespinmedia.com > > This email sent to j...@positivespinmedia.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
