Translating JAMS
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You can translate the JAMS graphical user interfaces by editing language files. Those files contain lines of the format | You can translate the JAMS graphical user interfaces by editing language files. Those files contain lines of the format | ||
<key>=<value> | <key>=<value> | ||
| − | where key is some string identifier and value a term in a certain language. An example would be | + | where key is some string identifier and value a term in a certain language. An example would be: |
| + | ExplorerDisabled=JAMS Explorer is diabled in this version! | ||
| + | The interfaces are translated by replacing the right part with the translated terms. In order to preserve a proper generation of combined terms, leading and trailing whitespace characters must be kept. | ||
First of all, make sure you have the JDK java development package installed. The files that I am referring to are part of the new JAMS version which has a new package structure. Please install the current version of JAMS that is available at http://jams.uni-jena.de. Afterwards, you can edit the language files by following the these steps: | First of all, make sure you have the JDK java development package installed. The files that I am referring to are part of the new JAMS version which has a new package structure. Please install the current version of JAMS that is available at http://jams.uni-jena.de. Afterwards, you can edit the language files by following the these steps: | ||
Revision as of 19:21, 22 October 2009
You can translate the JAMS graphical user interfaces by editing language files. Those files contain lines of the format
<key>=<value>
where key is some string identifier and value a term in a certain language. An example would be:
ExplorerDisabled=JAMS Explorer is diabled in this version!
The interfaces are translated by replacing the right part with the translated terms. In order to preserve a proper generation of combined terms, leading and trailing whitespace characters must be kept.
First of all, make sure you have the JDK java development package installed. The files that I am referring to are part of the new JAMS version which has a new package structure. Please install the current version of JAMS that is available at http://jams.uni-jena.de. Afterwards, you can edit the language files by following the these steps:
- open a DOS command prompt
- change into the directory containing the JAMS *.jar files (
cd c:\program files\jams\lib) - extract the JAMS language file by running
jar -xf jams-main.jar resources/JAMSBundle_pt.properties
- edit the file resources\JAMSBundle_pt.properties as you like
- write the modified file back to the archive by running
jar -uf jams-main.jar resources/JAMSBundle_pt.properties
- delete the extracted files by running
rmdir /s/q resources
- extract the JUICE language file by running the command
jar -xf jams-ui.jar resources/JUICEBundle_pt.properties
- edit the file resources\JUICEBundle_pt.properties as you like
- write the modified file back to the archive by running
jar -uf jams-ui.jar resources/JUICEBundle_pt.properties
- delete the extracted files by running
rmdir /s/q resources
