LinLocalize

What it is
LinLocalize is a translation tool running on Linux for easy localization of your Kylix-apps and now also Delphi-apps(!!). Linlocalize extracts all embedded Kylix/Delphi-resources (resourcestring and forms) of a Linux-ELF-file or Windows-PE-file (shared-object-file/dynamic-link-library or executable) and writes the translated textes back to a shared-resource-file or standalone executable. Translate your Kylix- and Delphi-applications within one translation-tool for Linux and use the same glossaries for automatic translation.

Key Features

• LinLocalize is available for free and with Kylix-source (GPL)
• Easy translation and localization of Kylix/Delphi-applications
• Resource-parser for embedded Kylix-/Delphi-resources (resourcestrings and forms)
• Update-feature makes sure that only changes and additions need to be translated
• Generation of shared-resource-files or standalone-executables in different languages
• Full support of Unicode for Languages with multibyte-Charsets
• Use of existing translations
• Uses global and project-glossaries for automatic translation
• Glossaries for kylix runtime- and clx-strings included
• Checking-feature to assert translations
• The statistics feature calculates translation volume and project progress
• Filter-function for untranslated, translated and for review strings
• Find-function
• Export and import of textlists for external translation
• Can use existing GNU GetText mo-files as glossaries for automatic translation
• Creation of GNU GetText pot-files of source-lists

How it works?
You just have to declare all strings you want to be translated as resourcestring, no other modifications are required.
Then create a project in LinLocalize and define the source-file(s), target-languages(s), target-files and target-fileformat.
Updating the source-list will extract all string-properties of the forms and resourcestrings of the source-file. Updating the translation-list for each language will apply all changes to the translation list.
After the translation-lists are translated "Generate Target-File" will create the target file for each language. By default a shared-resource-file like appname.de is created. "de" is the selected target-language-id.
If this file is in the same directory than the application, Kylix will load it automatically depending on the language-settings in the LANG-enviroment-variable. For german linux-distributions the LANG-env-var is set to de_DE, so appname.de_DE or appname.de will automatically be loaded. So you can place several languages into different shared-resource-files which are loaded automatically.
The other possibility is to create a single standalone executable which contains only one language and always run in this language independently from the language stettings.

And that´s all for free and with source. LinLocalize is published under GPL-terms. But it would be nice if you tell me which applications are translated using LinLocalize. If you want to know why LinLocalize is free, click here.

Installation
To run LinLocalize Kylix 3 have to be installed. Untar LinLocalize-X.X.tar.gz and run setupLL in a shell.

Download

LinLocalize (Binary+Kylix-Source)

Contact

kuehner@users.sourceforge.net

Links

LinLocalize Project-Page on sourceforge.net
XPde :: XP-like desktop-environment for linux written in Kylix
dxgettext - GNU gettext for Delphi, C++ Builder and Kylix