Piano Booster › Piano Booster Development

Translating PianoBooster

Classic

List

Threaded

12 messages Options

Louis B.

Translating PianoBooster

Administrator

This post was updated on .

Hi everyone,

If you would like to help to create a translation for PianoBooster in your local language then please volunteer by posting to this forum. It should be straight forward to create a translation and no special computer knowledge is required. We currently have Japanese, Spanish and possibly Chinese translations under way which I hope to include in the next release, but It would great if I could include more languages.

To get started with the translation you need to install a program call "QT 4 Linguist" which is free and included as part of the "Qt SDK" LGPL package that is available from this website.

http://qt.nokia.com/downloads

Next you need to get the blank translation file "pianobooster_blank.ts" which is available from from this location.

http://pianobooster.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pianobooster/trunk/PianoBooster/translations/

on the download link for this file right click and choose save as.

This file should be renamed using a two letter code for your language. For example for a French translation you would rename the file as "pianobooster_fr.ts" which has "fr" as the two letter language code.

Now all you have to do is enter the strings in your local language as described in the QT Linguist instructions here:

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/linguist-manual.html

and read the chapter on The Translators chapter which is for translators.

Finally generate a "pianobooster_xx.qm" and place that in the same directory as the latest pianobooster executable. If you are not able to build the latest pianobooster executable then I can send email you the code directly.

KC74 if you have any questions please post here. If you cannot find the QT translators tool I can email it to you.

thanks

Louis

CarlM

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Hi Louis,

Right click on the file and save as did not work with your link. I got an error "unexpected tag" when opening the file with Qt Linguist.

When I use the the link

http://pianobooster.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pianobooster/trunk/PianoBooster/translations/pianobooster_blank.ts?revision=110

I got no error after a right click on the file and save as.

Carl

HanonFreak

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Same error message on my Ubuntu (9.10) notebook. Under XP everything is ok.

Konstantin

CarlM

Re: Translating PianoBooster

The first link save a HTML file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.or
g/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

The second a text(xml)file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE TS>
<TS version="2.0">
<context>
<name>CGLView</name>

My OS is Ubuntu 9.10 with firefox.

Carl

KC74

Re: Translating PianoBooster

HI, Louis I have made the translation in Spanish but I dont know how to use it. pianobooster_sp.ts
Without a "exe" It's not easy find the "errors" I have made in the translation.
Can you help me?

Louis B.

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Administrator

That was quick, Thanks

The two letter code is from this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes

es for Spanish

Try this file pianobooster.zip

To every one else you need to right click on this file:

http://pianobooster.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pianobooster/trunk/PianoBooster/translations/pianobooster_blank.ts

Louis

KC74

Re: Translating PianoBooster

This post was updated on .

Thanks Louis.

I think I have finished.
pianobooster_es.ts

I have seen that some "traductions" aren't shown.

By the way, I have also traduced the Midi Instruments, but they are in english.

Other:
Set at right hand part: Seleccionar para mano derecha
Set at left hand part: Seleccionar para mano izquierda
Reset both parts: Reinicializar ambas partes

Louis B.

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Administrator

KC74

I have found more strings to translate and updated the .ts files in svn available from this directory

http://pianobooster.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pianobooster/trunk/PianoBooster/translations/

KC74 you need to use an update exe file whenever I change the strings.

pianobooster2.zip

Yanagida ,

i have renamed your pianobooster_ja_JP.ts to pianobooster_ja.ts and you also need to update the missing strings

Yanagida, Did you get the build working from svn on your Ubuntu?

Both, Do we want Drums to be in English as you have both chosen to keep the GM Instruments in English.

Louis

KC74

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Here you are
pianobooster_es.ts

Sorry, I dont undertand about what you are speaking in "Do we want Drums to be in English as you have both chosen to keep the GM Instruments in English. "

KC

Louis B.

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Administrator

I mean the drums in these screen shots below:

Japanese screen shot

Spanish screen shot

Should the drums on channel 10 be in English or the local language????

Louis

gamby

Re: Translating PianoBooster

Will this allow you to switch between language within a session or do you have to reboot or reinstall? It would be handy in the school system for our refugees.

A German translation is underway.

romul

Re: Translating PianoBooster

This post was updated on .

In reply to this post by Louis B.

Go ahead to translate: https://github.com/captnfab/PianoBooster#translations