Localising nib files

Question

I am writing a app which has about 10 nib files for conveying different UI messages and for taking user input. I want to know how to localize these messages that appear on my custom sheets. Is there any way i can have a single file with generic strings and depending on language it replaces the generic string with string in that particular language. also i want to know how to load dynamic strings into messages in custom sheets like file names or the number of files selected etc.

i have taken a look at ibtool but doesnt it duplicate the nib files by creating .lproj files for different languages? doing this simply makes the size of my app huge.

Thanks

Answer 1

At a Boston cocoa-heads meeting a while ago, we discussed this topic and came to a consensus that where two decent approaches.

1 - The first is it either use IBTool or manually make separate nibs.

2 - Gain programatic access to your labels and change the text programatically. Mipadi mentions Localizable.strings as being useful. To gain programatic access, you can either wire-up each label through IB, or you could do some king of walk-the-nib magic and find all of the labels (exercise left to the reader).

Pick whichever method fits your particular app.

Hope this helps,

JJ

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