Re: A Gtk/GtkAda and Glade question

[ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl>]

Op 13-5-2020 om 10:18 schreef Dmitry A. Kazakov:
> On 2020-05-13 09:04, ldries46 wrote:
>> Op 9-5-2020 om 17:06 schreef mgr:
>>> On 27/4/20 14:16, ldries46 wrote:
>>> > Another problem I encountered is that you have for your program 
>>> constant
>>> > strings in your GUI and I do want variables in that positions to 
>>> change
>>> > the look of my GUI by a simple redraw action. One reason is that I 
>>> want
>>> > to create a multi language program So I need for instance the menu 
>>> to be
>>> > possible in several languages (f.i. English, Dutch, German, French 
>>> and
>>> > Spanish) and just switch these languages with one redraw. I can do 
>>> that
>>> > when I do not use the GtkBuilder statement.
>>>
>>> You should look for gettext library support in Glade and the 
>>> gtkada.intl package (which is a binding to the former). I haven't 
>>> tried it, but interfaces produced by Glade should be translatable 
>>> using gettext files.
>> I am glad somebody answered. I could not find the listing of gettext 
>> but I suspect that the answer is not inside that listings. I just 
>> want to know all the possibilities and where applicable for lines like:
>>   <object class="GtkBox" id="box1">
>>   <property name="visible">True</property>
>>   <signal name="activate" handler="On_New" swapped="no"/>
>> I just found three different types of lines that matter. I think that 
>> I have found all object class names like "GtkBox" here but of the 
>> property name I need far more as which is the case with signal name.
>> I need the complete set of each of the different types an if there 
>> are more events like object class etc.
>
> It is not properties, it is style properties you are looking for. 
> Style properties can be set in a CSS sheet for a class of widgets and 
> for individual instances of. It has a quite complex matching 
> algorithm, admittedly poorly documented. The CSS sheet is defaulted by 
> GTK per user basis. A sheet can be loaded by the GTK application 
> explicitly. The widgets get a signal when the style gets changed. For 
> further information see:
>
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/chap-css-overview.html
>
> So, when you create your custom widget, you can define all texts it 
> would use as style properties of the widget class. Default these 
> properties to English, that will serve as a fallback. Within the 
> widget implementation get texts from the corresponding style 
> properties. For each locale create a CSS file. Load this file when the 
> language is changed. You can also consider setting left-to-right vs. 
> right-to-left, if you ever plan Hebrew or Arabic. Of course you can 
> set fonts and colors. Alas, you cannot embed images into CSS as you 
> could in GTK 2.x RC files, but there is a workaround via icon factory.
>
I am just interested in a list of XML- code used in the .glade files and 
Gtk routines they should be translated in. I cannot find this list so 
where can I find it?