Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Formatting in wxStaticText?

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

Phil Martin wrote:
> Alex Bligh wrote:
>
> > Newlines are barred from labels in XRC I think, not least because
> > they are not compatible with gettext and translation (see the
> > zillion warnings on build).
>
> Are you really saying that we can't store newlines in textual resources???

Allegedly gettext will not translate strings with \n in. Yes, bizarre
I know, but that seems to be one of the consequences of using gettext
for translation (and let's not revisit that argument again...).

> That does seem to be the root of the problem I'm seeing - I have "\n" 
> seqences in strings held in xrc resources and they are not being 
> expanded into proper newline characters whereas, the statically bound 
> _T("This\nis anewline") works fine.
>
> There must be a way to represent newlines in string resource /somehow/, 
> even if we can't use the standard "\n" for fear of upsetting gettext - 
> someone must have wanted to do this before...???

Well if you don't mind doing SetStringGadgetValue (or similar) we could
just make %n (or something) into a newline in MakeMsg() - then they
could be stored in the resources, but not as static text in dialogs.

Alex