# Early Radiant translation **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [July 19, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006 "2006-07-19T18:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/1 "2006-07-19T18:15:13Z")
Hi all, I’ve started adding translation capabilities to Radiant using the GLoc Rails plugin ([http://rubyforge.org/projects/gloc](http://rubyforge.org/projects/gloc)). Except from image containing text, defining translations strings in quite easy. How can I show it to you before submitting a patch? By the way, why using images to display text? ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/2 "2006-07-19T22:05:06Z")
Frederic B. wrote: > I’ve started adding translation capabilities to Radiant using the GLoc > Rails plugin ([http://rubyforge.org/projects/gloc](http://rubyforge.org/projects/gloc)). > > Except from image containing text, defining translations strings in quite easy. > > How can I show it to you before submitting a patch? The easiest thing would be to create a ticket and label it with [RESEARCH] and [PATCH] in the title and attach your patch to that. Even if you aren’t quite ready for your changes to be used by others, doing it that way a great way to show us what you are up to. > By the way, why using images to display text? It is the the easiest way to create buttons with rounded corners as I designed them. If Radiant offers full multi-lingual support they will definitely need to be replaced with simple text. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/3 "2006-07-20T07:02:31Z")
> > By the way, why using images to display text? > > It is the the easiest way to create buttons with rounded corners as I > designed them. If Radiant offers full multi-lingual support they will > definitely need to be replaced with simple text. Perhaps [http://encytemedia.com/demo/rico/](http://encytemedia.com/demo/rico/) could be used to do the rounded corners instead. Since the admin console already requires a fair bit of javascript, why not a bit more? ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/4 "2006-07-20T15:19:57Z")
Daniel S. wrote: > Perhaps [http://encytemedia.com/demo/rico/](http://encytemedia.com/demo/rico/) could be used to do the > rounded corners instead. > > Since the admin console already requires a fair bit of javascript, why > not a bit more? Would this help on buttons with thin borders like the one below? [http://demo.radiantcms.org/images/clear-page-cache.png](http://demo.radiantcms.org/images/clear-page-cache.png) You can often achieve the same effect with CSS, but as I said before, it’s a bit messier than just using an image. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/5 "2006-07-20T15:35:12Z")
On 7/20/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Would this help on buttons with thin borders like the one below? > > [http://demo.radiantcms.org/images/clear-page-cache.png](http://demo.radiantcms.org/images/clear-page-cache.png) For something like this why not just use the rounded image as a background and put the text on top of it?..straight CSS with no JS to muck around with. Just a thought… || Dean ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/6 "2006-07-20T17:35:57Z")
The only problem I see with doing text on static images is that, in the long term, some translations may be quite a bit longer or shorter than others. I guess the translation could include style attributes to resize text when necessary. James ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/7 "2006-07-20T17:48:39Z")
On 7/20/06, James MacAulay [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > The only problem I see with doing text on static images is that, in the > long term, some translations may be quite a bit longer or shorter than > others. I guess the translation could include style attributes to resize > text when necessary. > James Ahh, but that’s why the good people over at ALA exist: to solve everyone else’s problems! We could use a derivative of sliding doors [1](http://alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/) or something similar. JS or pure images or … whatever is fine because Radiant will still rock no matter what, but personally I prefer straight up HTML+CSS whenever possible. || Dean ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/8 "2006-07-20T15:47:35Z")
> The easiest thing would be to create a ticket and label it with > [RESEARCH] and [PATCH] in the title and attach your patch to that. Even > if you aren’t quite ready for your changes to be used by others, doing > it that way a great way to show us what you are up to. Ok then, I’ll try to do that. ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/9 "2006-07-20T17:58:26Z")
Dean S. wrote: > Ahh, but that’s why the good people over at ALA exist: to solve everyone > else’s problems! We could use a derivative of sliding doors [1] or > something similar. JS or pure images or … whatever is fine because > Radiant will still rock no matter what, but personally I prefer straight > up HTML+CSS whenever possible. +1 for sliding doors. Jay ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/10 "2006-07-20T18:46:32Z")
Dean S. wrote: > but personally I prefer straight up HTML+CSS > whenever possible. I agree. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/11 "2006-07-20T19:27:53Z")
I’ve just uploaded the patch… I had to remove the vendor/plugin/gloc from the patch to reduce its size. Also note that I had some trouble starting Radiant with GLoc, apparently because of the frozen Rails. I couldn’t figure out why because I’m running the exact same version on my computer. Let me know about it. ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/12 "2006-07-20T19:11:48Z")
On 20-Jul-06, at 11:47 AM | Jul 20, Dean S. wrote: > Nice, thanks for the link. Obviously I don’t read ALA enough 😛 James ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 1:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/13 "2006-07-21T01:56:28Z")
> Would this help on buttons with thin borders like the one below? > > [http://demo.radiantcms.org/images/clear-page-cache.png](http://demo.radiantcms.org/images/clear-page-cache.png) Yes, you just do: Rico.Corner.round(element, {border: ‘#00ff00’}); Though as mentioned elsewhere, the sliding doors solution is also a good one, though in a controlled environment like the admin console, rico’s also a good solution. ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/14 "2006-07-20T19:43:27Z")
Frederic B. wrote: > I’ve just uploaded the patch… > > I had to remove the vendor/plugin/gloc from the patch to reduce its > size. Also note that I had some trouble starting Radiant with GLoc, > apparently because of the frozen Rails. I couldn’t figure out why > because I’m running the exact same version on my computer. > > Let me know about it. Looks nice Fredric. A surprisingly small amount of modifications! Does this automatically set the content type based off of the content type the browser prefers? Or is the language set once globally? – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/early-radiant-translation/99006/15 "2006-07-20T20:21:07Z")
> the browser prefers? Or is the language set once globally? > Yes, according to the documentation, there is a controller filter to > simply > declare.