1.3.12 Beta language choice in Interface

[steve]

Thanks Gale - I don't have that option in the Linux, (though it can be configured manually) - is it just Windows that has the option in Preferences or has Mac got it also, or is it that I only have English language support installed in my Linux installation?

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[Gale Andrews]

I don't have that option in the Linux, (though it can be configured manually) - is it just Windows that has the option in Preferences or has Mac got it also, or is it that I only have English language support installed in my Linux installation?

Should work on Linux as well as Mac and Windows - It does for me on Ubuntu 9.10. The Audacity languages come from the installed "locale" folder. If there is no "locale" folder where Audacity expects it (/usr/share/locale if Audacity was installed from a repository package, or /usr/local/share/locale if you compiled Audacity), then "Language" in Preferences should show "System" and "English". If the system language was English, obviously those choices amount to the same thing. If system language was some language other than English, the two choices still produce English (except for some "system" buttons like "Cancel") because Audacity can't find the locale folder which has the required language.

When you say you can configure it manually, do you mean in the ./configure step when building? What do you see in Preferences? Note that "System" is at the top of the Preferences list, out of alphabetical order.


Gale

[steve]

then "Language" in Preferences should show "System" and "English". If the system language was English, obviously those choices amount to the same thing.

Yes, that's what I mean. The choice is "System" or "English" and defaults to "System", so there is no GUI method to change to any other language.
I do have /usr/local/share/locale and Audacity 1.3.13 alpha installed in /usr/local/share/audacity-SVN so I'm unsure why other languages do not show up.

Audacity 1.3.12 is not currently available in the 9.04 repository and my 10.04 system is in bits, so I can't actually test the repository package at the moment.
I have 1.3.11 installed in /usr/share/audacity and the locale folder in /usr/share/locale and this version does give a choice of languages.

When you say you can configure it manually, do you mean....

Edit the "audacity.cfg" file.

For example, to set language to French:

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.....
[Locale]
Language=fr
[Batch]
.....

[Gale Andrews]

then "Language" in Preferences should show "System" and "English". If the system language was English, obviously those choices amount to the same thing.

Yes, that's what I mean. The choice is "System" or "English" and defaults to "System", so there is no GUI method to change to any other language.
I do have /usr/local/share/locale and Audacity 1.3.13 alpha installed in /usr/local/share/audacity-SVN so I'm unsure why other languages do not show up.

I'm not too sure either. In usr/local/share/audacity I just have the nyquist and plug-ins folders. I do all building on Linux using default commands, so I install the svn build with sudo install, which puts the executable in usr/local/bin. Maybe I'll try installing in usr/local/share. /usr/local/share/audacity-SVN isn't actually your build directory, is it?


Gale

[steve]

Uninstalled the previous version with

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sudo make uninstall

Then ran

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make clean

on the source folder and updated from SVN.
Then installed with:

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./configure --with-libsamplerate --program-suffix=-SVN
make
sudo make install

Removed ~/.audacity-SVN-data

The only options available in Preferences for languages are System/English.

During "make install" this came up which seems to suggest that languages were installed correctly - they just don't show up in Preferences.

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linguas='af ar bn bg bs ca [email protected] cs cy da de el es eu fa fi fr ga gl he hi hu id it ja ka km ko lt mk my nb nl oc pl pt pt_BR ro ru sk sl sv tg tr uk vi zh zh_TW'; for lang in $linguas ; do 
	   /usr/bin/install -c -d /usr/local//share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES ; 
	   /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $lang/audacity.mo /usr/local//share/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/audacity-SVN.mo ; 
	done
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steve/audacity/locale'

[Gale Andrews]

I can replicate the problem in 1.3.13 Alpha SVN if I follow your steps above (the only departure from my normal procedure is the --program-suffix=-SVN at the configure step). That gives me the Audacity executable at usr/local/bin which is called "audacity-SVN" instead of "audacity". At usr/local/share/audacity-SVN I have the expected "nyquist" and "plug-ins" folders, but although I have access to those plug-ins (all Nyquist) in the Audacity interface, they all fail with "Nyquist did not return audio".I would assume therefore that Audacity can't see the "nyquist" folder. Do your Nyquist plug-ins work in 1.3.13?

So I'm figuring if you did not perform the rename at configure you would not have the problem. Did you perform that rename before in 1.3.12 Alpha?



Gale

[steve]

That gives me the Audacity executable at usr/local/bin which is called "audacity-SVN" instead of "audacity". At usr/local/share/audacity-SVN I have the expected "nyquist" and "plug-ins" folders,

Same, but Nyquist plug-ins work fine here.

I've used this method of adding a suffix may times so that I can test new versions without messing up my "production" version of Audacity.
I can't say that I remember looking at the language options in other versions, but this is the first time I've noticed any ill effect from using a non-standard suffix.

I could test an older version of Audacity with a "-SVN" suffix and see if languages are available or not - would any particular version be useful to test?

[Gale Andrews]

If the change to using system language is responsible for this, you'd want a build before r10067 (Jan 19th):
http://code.google.com/p/audacity/sourc ... 16&r=10067

I just rebuilt without --program-suffix=-SVN at the configure step, and Nyquist effects and language change in the interface are now back to normal.


Gale

[steve]

I've built Audacity 1.3.10 (Dec 01, 2009) using:

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./configure --with-libsamplerate --program-suffix=-SVN
make
sudo make install

On first launch, Audacity prompts for language selection. The only option is English.

Edit > Preferences > Interface > Language
the only available option is "English".

Changing the language setting manually in audacity.cfg successfully changes the language, but the only option in Preferences remains as "English".

[richardash1981]

OK, after some experiments:
* If you build audacity with a program suffix, but have audacity without a suffix installed in the same prefix, you don't see this because audacity-with-suffix picks up the translations from audacity-without-suffix. This is because both versions of audacity install translations in $(DESTDIR)$(LOCALEDIR)/<language>/LC_MESSAGES/$(AUDACITY_NAME).mo, where $(DESTDIR) expands to / (except during staged installs for package managers), $(LOCALEDIR) expands to $(PREFIX)/share/locale unless otherwise set, and $(AUDACITY_NAME) is "audacity" unless you set up suffixes.
* The list of languages displayed in the list box to chose a language in the preferences comes from a call to GetLanguages() in src/prefs/GUIPrefs.cpp:44