Now my translators have sent back localized versions of Localizable.strings, file.strings, and images that I sent to them, I can integrate them into my project. Here is how my project is organized right now:

To localize the NoImage.tiff image, I select NoImage.tiff and get Info, then click on Make File Localizable:

This changes the image into a group and shows the targets that it is associated with:

The Resources have been rearranged like this:

Clicking on the General tab shows the languages that the image is localized for:

I'm going to add French, so I click Add Localization and select French. The French image created by Xcode is just a copy of the English image at this stage:

To get my French image in, I change its name from PasDimage.tiff to NoImage.tiff so that the code will be able to access it with the same file name and replace the current image in the French.lprog folder via the Finder. Xcode has a handy contextual menu item called Reveal File In Finder to help with this.

To Localize the strings I do the same sequence, this time putting my English Localizable.strings into the English localization as well as the French Localizable.strings file into the French localization.

I localize the nib file too, creating the localization, but just leaving it as a duplicate of the English for now. I want to see how Random Wok works in French with what I have to far. Only a few things will be French at this stage: the progress message and the missing thumbnail image will show me that things are working correctly. But how to run in French?

I go to the International preference pane and move French to the top:

Now when I run Aperture it will be French.

But when I do, I find that the NoImage image is not there. And when I run it in English it is not there either. The problem is this code:

I get the TIFF file using a path that does not take into account the localization folders (English, French). So the initWithContentsOfFile method fails and returns nil. The fix is to use -pathForResource:ofType:inDirectory with a nil directory name:

And now the image shows up correctly when I run in French or English:

Next is fixing the interface strings.

The other parts of this series can be found via the Cocoa page.

Tags: Aperture, Plug-ins, Random Wok, Localization, Cocoa