jVLT - a vocabulary learning tool

Patches

Language details files

• Download the source code tarball and unpack it.
• Create a new language details file in the data directory. The name of the file has the format details_LANGUAGE.xml, where LANGUAGE is the English name of the language in lower-case letters.
• Edit the new language file. Word classes can be specified via the <class> tag, attributes via the <attribute> tag. You can use the German details file shown below as a template. It is recommended to use only lower-case letters and numbers for the class and attribute names, the names which are actually shown can be entered in the file i18n/Attributes.properties (see below).
• Edit the file data/info.xml and add a <language> tag for the new language.
• Edit the file i18n/Attributes.properties, section "Language specific attributes", and add the English translation of the class/attribute names.
• Compile jVLT according to the instructions on the download page.

<schema lang="german">
    <class name="noun"/>
    <class name="verb"/>
    <class name="adjective"/>
    <class name="adverb"/>
    <attribute name="gender" classes="noun">
        <choice name="feminine"/>
        <choice name="masculine"/>
        <choice name="neuter"/>
    </attribute>
    <attribute name="gensi" classes="noun" group="declension"/>
    <attribute name="nompl" classes="noun" group="declension"/>
    <attribute name="pret1" classes="verb" group="conjugation"/>
    <attribute name="pastp" classes="verb" group="conjugation"/>
</schema>

Translations

• Download the source code release and unpack it.
• In the unpacked folder, there is a "i18n" directory which contains the translation files. Copy the English translation files Actions.properties, Attributes.properties, Labels.properties and Messages.properties to files with the format <prefix>_<lc>_<cc>.properties, where "lc" is a two letter language code and "cc" is a two-letter country code. An example: The French attributes file is named Attributes_fr_FR.properties.
• The translation files contain lines that look like
  key = Translation
  Replace all English texts by new strings in your language. Note that the files have to be formatted in UTF-8 which may not be supported by all text editors.
• In the Actions_<lc>_<cc>.properties file, there are some strings containing the character "$". This character marks the character that is used as the mnemonic key for a command. The mnemonic keys can be used to access a button, text field, etc., via the keyboard.
• Find the lines in the file src/JVLT.java that look similar to the lines given below:
  private static Locale[] _locales = {
  Locale.US, Locale.GERMANY };
  and change them in the following manner:
  private static Locale[] _locales = {
  Locale.US, Locale.GERMANY, new Locale("fr", "FR") };
• Compile jVLT according to the instructions on the download page.

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