Language Switching

PNotes Portable? It uses *.lang files, but its pretty close . . .

I have this same predicament for Dimio's apps (DShutdown, DTaskManager, etc.). Honestly, I think it might need some custom code regarding FilesMove since it's relative to the data directory.

Here's my answer for scriptdaemon, for DShutdown (as he emailed me asking about it). It'll be very similar for other apps, just with some different paths. (Scriptdaemon: note I've also changed your App\DShutdown\DShutdown English Pack\DShutdown.lng to just App\Languages\English.lng; seems neater to me and you can more easily filter it for the optional section in the installer too. Your choice on how you do it.)

Store the language name in %PAL:DataDir%\settings\DShutdownPortableSettings.ini, section DShutdownPortableSettings, key Language. Then you'll be able to switch over to [Language]:SaveLanguage=true which I'll be putting in PAL 2.2 for cases like this (and ones which use an environment variable).

Then here's some code.

launcher.ini:

[FileWrite1]
File=%PAL:DataDir%\settings\DShutdownPortableSettings.ini
Type=INI
Section=DShutdownPortableSettings
Key=Language

[Language]
Base=%PortableApps.comLocaleName%
CheckIfExists=%PAL:AppDir%\Languages\%PAL:LanguageCustom%.lng
DefaultIfNotExists=English

[LanguageFile]
File=%PAL:DataDir%\settings\DShutdownPortableSettings.ini
Type=INI
Section=DShutdownPortableSettings
Key=Language

Custom.nsh:

${SegmentFile}

${SegmentPrePrimary}
	ReadEnvStr $0 PAL:LanguageCustom
	Rename $AppDirectory\Languages\$0.lng $AppDirectory\DShutdown\DShutdown.lng
!macroend

${SegmentPostPrimary}
	ReadEnvStr $0 PAL:LanguageCustom
	Rename $AppDirectory\DShutdown\DShutdown.lng $AppDirectory\Languages\$0.lng
!macroend

(Incidental note: this is safe in case of power failure, crash, etc. as well.)

I have a question, and I have three ways to ask the same think, since English is no my main language (and today I'm "English mentally blocked"), I'm going to ask twice the same think to make me more understandable...

This means that App\Languages will reduce the total size of files stored in the portable drive, but only if every app is going to use it, so those apps which already comes with different lang files should be edited to remove those lang files... so PortableApps.com will not be "the same app" anymore. Otherwise we are going to have a lot of redundant files (almost as we already have)...

But this means that applications like GIMP, OpenOffice, Filezilla which have their own lang files (already comes in the old fashioned App\DShutdown\Languages way) will have to be edited to remove those redunded lang files?

Do you mean that the current lang file of an app will be moved to App\Languages folder? because this makes it easier to me to locate them and delete it all (except English and Spanish) but is dangerous since two apps can have the same file name but not the same content/format and one can replace the other one and mess the entire think.