delphi - How to translate (internationalize, localize) application?

Question

I need to translate an application on delphi. Now all strings in interface on Russian. What are the tools for fast find, parcing all pas'es for string constants?

How people translate large applications?

Answer 1

GetText should be able to do, search for "extract" at http://dxgettext.po.dk/documentation/how-to

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If all you need is to translate GUI and maybe resourcestring in sources, and the inline string constants in Pascal sources are not needed for translation, then you can try Delphi built-in method. However forums say that ITE is buggy. But at least that is official Delphi way.

• http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/32974
• http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Creating_Resource_DLLs

To translate sources with ITM manual preparation is needed as shown in source sheets at http://www.gunsmoker.ru/2010/06/delphi-ite-integrated-translation.html

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I remember i tranlsated Polaris texts for JediVCL team - so they did some extraction. But i think they just extracted all characters > #127 into a text file - there was no structure, there were constants and comments, all together. Still, there is some component, though i doubt it can be used the way you need: http://wiki.delphi-jedi.org/wiki/JVCL_Help:TJvTranslator

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There are also commercial tools. But i don't know if their features would help you on your initial extraction and translation tasks. They probably would be of much help when you need to mantain your large application translated to many languages, but not when you need to do one-time conversion. But maybe i am wrong, check their trial versions if you wish. By reviews those suites are considered among best of commercial ones:

• TsiLang Suite http://www.tsilang.com/?siteid2=7
• Korzh Localizer http://devtools.korzh.com/localization-delphi/