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79 lines
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_String Constants_
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This library provides the facility for multiple languages in
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DrScheme's GUI. These are the exported syntactic forms and
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procedures from
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(lib "string-constant.ss" "string-constants")
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are
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> (string-constant name) : string
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This form returns the string constant named `name'.
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> (string-constants name) : (listof string)
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This form returns a list of string constants, one for each
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language that DrScheme's GUI supports.
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> (this-language) : symbol
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This form returns the name of the current language
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> (all-languages) : (listof symbol)
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This form returns a list of symbols (in the same order as
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those returned from string-constants) naming each
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language.
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> (set-language-pref lang) : void
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Sets the language for the next run of DrScheme to
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lang, which must be a symbol returned from `all-languages'.
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Does not affect the running DrScheme.
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============================================================
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To add string-constants to DrScheme, see the files:
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_english-string-constants.ss_
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_french-string-constants.ss_
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_spanish-string-constants.ss_
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_german-string-constants.ss_
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_danish-string-constants.ss_
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_italian-string-constants.ss_
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Each file has the same format. They are each modules
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in the "string-constant-lang.ss" language. The body of each
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module is a finite mapping table that gives the mapping
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from the symbolic name of a string constant to its
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translation in the appropriate language.
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The english-string-constants.ss is considered the master
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file -- string constants will be set there and translated
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into each of the other language files. In addition, the
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english-string-constants.ss file should contain hints about
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the context of the strings whose symbol name might not be
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clear.
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============================================================
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_PLTSTRINGCONSTANTS_ environment variable
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_STRINGCONSTANTS_ environment variable
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If either of these environment variables are set, DrScheme
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shows you, during startup, which string constants are not
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yet defined for each language.
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You can also specify which languages you are interested
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in. If either environment variable is bound to a symbol (as
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interpreted by `read') you see only the corresponding
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language's messages. If either one is bound to a list of
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symbol (again, as interpreted by `read') you see the
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messages for all the languages in the list. If either is
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bound to anything else, you see all of the languages.
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The PLTSTRINGCONSTANTS environment variable takes precedence
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of the STRINGCONSTANTS environment variable.
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