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Users / Re: Italian translation

« on: January 16, 2008, 09:05:23 am »

basically I've already finished a "first round" of translations, but the majority of strings still appears in english on my orbiters.
Maybe I missed to translate a few, but there are strings that I'm 100% sure that I've translated and still are displayed in english.

Well, there's a couple of strings beeing hard coded somewhere which you can't translate right now without removing the english strings. See the thread about French translation on the dev forum and about German/Czech/Russian translation on the mailing list.

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Users / Re: Italian translation

« on: January 15, 2008, 04:19:41 pm »

It's a lengthy task, I've done it for the German translation. Why don't you split the work up

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Developers / Re: Graphical view on pluto_main

« on: January 15, 2008, 10:32:29 am »

Hej,

I'm about 40% finished modeling the relationship between tables, maybe I can finish that part today. But the Diagram looks like a mess... cleaning up the chart by grouping the tables and make it look nice may take some more time

BTW, I did also think about changes that might come with 0710. I think it might be the easiest way to integrate them manually into the 0704 ER model...

/Chriss

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Developers / Re: Graphical view on pluto_main

« on: January 14, 2008, 10:47:46 am »

maybe someone with a big screen and patience can interconnect the foreign keys and align the tables (by repo?)?

Hari, I can do that. Does the DB stay the same in 0710 or are there major differences? If so, I would wait for 0710 to do this task.

Cheers,
/Chriss

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Users / Re: howto: french translation

« on: January 11, 2008, 05:40:13 pm »

The original German translation looked like it was done by google or some automated way. Basically I agree that it could be done, but I preferred using the English strings to retranslate and not use the German strings - about 50% of them were totally unsusable.

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Users / Re: howto: french translation

« on: January 11, 2008, 11:00:27 am »

Well, there's some other tables in the DB holding strings for different parts of LMCE, i.e. not all text is stored in Text/Text_LS. Furthermore there are hard coded string arrays for orbiter generation (Michal Wokoun pointed that out on the mailing list). Because of that I see two steps that need to be done for full translation:

• Modify the code to move those hard coded arrays into the DB
• Find a way to translate all strings stored in the DB, either by
  
  • defining overlay tables for all tables or by
  • modifiying the DB and the code to have all strings in a single table (the better way, I think)

edit: BTW, I didn't spot those ugly arrays yet, i.e. if anybody has an idea...

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Users / Re: howto: french translation

« on: January 10, 2008, 11:44:35 pm »

Are all of the strings in LMCE that can be translated all in records in the database? None are hardcoded into, say, C++ (or Ruby, or other language) code, or in HTML files, etc?

Unfortunately not all strings are in the DB...  But this can be fixed, I guess.

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Users / Re: howto: french translation

« on: January 10, 2008, 10:42:25 am »

Hey Guys,
we had a discussion about tranlsating LMCE on the dev mailing list, too. Michal is working on a Czech translation, Michael is working on a Russian translation and I finished a German (re)translation (the old one sucked a bit).

Michal also pointed out some problems with the character sets, i.e. the text fields in the database are latin1_swedish but treated as being utf-8. Michal also offered to improve utf-8 handling.

Cheers,
/Chriss

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Developers / Re: Next Version??

« on: October 29, 2007, 09:39:17 pm »

From what I've heard from Daniel, Paul is doing the 0710 release from his private repository which will be mirrored to the new public repository after the release.
I wonder if the new release requires a reinstall or if the update will do?

Cheers,
Chriss

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Users / Re: What graphics card to buy?

« on: October 29, 2007, 09:13:47 am »

Anybody?

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Users / Re: Howto: Make additional mouse-buttons behave as F6, F7, F8

« on: October 26, 2007, 01:20:50 pm »

Chewi,

what do you think about transfering your howto into the wiki? Maybe we should have a category for howtos then...

Cheers,
Chriss

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Users / Re: What graphics card to buy?

« on: October 24, 2007, 10:51:22 pm »

We're having no problems with 6200LE & 7300LE here under UI2

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using?
I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

Cheers,
/Chriss

We're using the non-open nVidia drivers

Well, of course I'm also using the proprietary driver (nvidia not nv). But which version are you using?

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Users / Re: What graphics card to buy?

« on: October 24, 2007, 08:10:41 pm »

We're having no problems with 6200LE & 7300LE here under UI2

What version of the nvidia drivers are you using?
I have an Asus EN6200LE which is reported to work with UI2 + alpha blending by several people here in the forum. When I turn on alpha blending my CPU usage goes up to around 70% without doing anything and up to 100% when I try to use menus. The menus have a high latency and flickr screensaver is not moving smoothly... Because of that I can only use UI2 medium at the moment. Any ideas?

Cheers,
/Chriss

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Developers / Re: Reorganizing development for scalability

« on: October 24, 2007, 10:41:53 am »

Bulek,

I disagree on that. AFAIK, Pluto is already hosting a public sqlCVS, but they are reviewing every commit before they put it into the public/productive area. I think, we should have our own sqlCVS server to have a lower latency in reacting to new templates and stuff. This would help to increase the dynamic of development.
Of course we should give Pluto the opportunity to use our database or even mirror it to theirs...

just my 2 cents,
Chriss

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Developers / Re: Reorganizing development for scalability

« on: October 22, 2007, 08:00:50 pm »

Thom,

you wrote:

the code is very good... it's flexible as hell... it's just...not...documented worth a fuck... code forensics takes time. :-P

from scrolling through some parts of the code I totally agree with you. If you're really digging into the code and doing code forensics it would be awesome if you could just add (doxygen) comments with the information you're gathering. This would help the others understanding the code, too   

Cheers,
/Chriss