Language-specific buttons for different languages

[Daniel Hofverberg]

With the new user-selectable languages support in 1.3.0, is it possible to get buttons for the language that the user chooses in their Profile, instead of all buttons always being in the default language for the forum?

[Hypocrite]

Yes, edit your language.lng. In the end of it there are the button images. Just take the translated images and rename them lets say logoutse.gif and then change the logout.gif to logoutse.gif from the swedish.lng. That works.

[Joseph Fung]

or, an alternative is to put the images in a separate sub directory, and simply add that directory into the path of the images.

so you could change

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   $img['admin'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/admin.gif\" alt=\"$txt[2]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['delete'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/delete.gif\" alt=\"$txt[121]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['email'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/email.gif\" alt=\"$txt[69]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['email_sm'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/email_sm.gif\" alt=\"$txt[69]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['help'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/help.gif\" alt=\"$txt[119]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['home'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/home.gif\" alt=\"$txt[103]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['im_config'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/im_config.gif\" alt=\"$txt[323]\" border=\"0\">";
to something like

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   $img['admin'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/admin.gif\" alt=\"$txt[2]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['delete'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/delete.gif\" alt=\"$txt[121]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['email'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/email.gif\" alt=\"$txt[69]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['email_sm'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/email_sm.gif\" alt=\"$txt[69]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['help'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/help.gif\" alt=\"$txt[119]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['home'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/home.gif\" alt=\"$txt[103]\" border=\"0\">";
   $img['im_config'] = "<img src=\"$imagesdir/german/im_config.gif\" alt=\"$txt[323]\" border=\"0\">";


[Hypocrite]

Btw. Why aren't the admin_buttons.gif in the language file? I noticed that after I translated my forum to different languages everything else works but the little moderator buttons below the messages

[andrea]

Can one not simplify this somehow? For instance to automatically let the variable $imagesdir append the name of the language that is active for the user? The disadvantage of course is that I have to copy all images, but I would not much care about that.

I would be very happy if this would be possible since I would like to activate 4 languages in my board. To edit 4 language files is a big work, and the next release or patch upgrade I maybe would have to edit again and again.

[andrea]

Maybe somebody could make this thread a sticky topic?

[Delinquently insane]

Not Really


You Could Go Out On The Web And Cut And Paste The English Terminology into a word translator of any language and then alter the img source and the default template if your using multiple templates to point to a diff dir.. Such As

This Is How I Have Mine:

Created Five Dir
English
Spanish
Latin
Hawaiian
Filipino

Then I Went Out To A Word Translator Site And Pasted All The Enlish info into it then remapped all the images
and templates to these specified dir. That Way If The User Is Spanish All My Images Would Show In Spanish and so forth .. Ive Got About 4 Lan Packs To Go And Ill Be Done.. If Ne One Is Interested In The Lan Packs Let me Know .. They Also Come With Predefine Buttons with Marking Languages And Random Colors.

I Was Thinkin Of Releasing A Multilingual pack As  Yabb Pack But Dont Know Anything About It So.. Im Still Working On Some Other Idea Mods...