How to Update Translations for OSTC Planner

Updating the translations of OSTC Planner is one of the task contributed by beta testers.

The processing is failrly simple, and does not need any specific developer skills. Just a good knowledge of technical diving terms in your own language, and in english.

To proceed:

  1. Install the latest OSTC Planner (beta) version from the official page:
        http://ostc-planner.net/wp/download
  2. Get the translation kit. It contains translation files fo all languages supported. The latest version is on the distribution directory here:
        TraductionKit_706.zip
  3. Unpack it into the OSTC Planner installation directory: C:\Program Files(x86)\OSTC\OSTC Planner 2.70.706\
  4. Launch the Linguist application, and edit the ostc_planner_XX.ts text file (where XX is "es" for Spanish, "de" for German, "fr" for French and "it" for Italian, etc.).
    This application is part of the Qt tools, and a nice documentation can be found here: A nice documentation is here: qt-project.org
  5. Translate messages from the .ts file.
    Useful keyboard shortcuts are:
        Ctrl-B            Copy the English version into the translation. This a good start when there is special chars (%1, HTML tags, etc.).
        Ctrl-J             Jump to the next message to check or translate. Ie. save current translation (if any), but do not mark it as validated.
        Ctrl-Enter     Validate the current message, and jump to the next.

    Things you should pay attention to:

    This is not as difficult as it may sound: For most messages, you have a graphical display of the text under translation. You can also look at various translations used in other languages (directly in OSTC Planner).
        --> In case of doubt, let the message not validated yet (Ctrl-J or just skip it).

  6. Once you saved and quit, you can try your translation by compiling it, using the command:
            lrelease ostc_planner_XX.ts
        (you may first need to delete ostc_planner_XX.qm)
        Then switch to the language in OSTC Planner will reload the new translations.
  7. AS SOON AS YOU HAVE SOMETHING, send me the ostc_planner_XX.ts file, so that I will repack a beta installer.
Thanks for helping in OSTC Planner development.