How to create TMX from existing files in 6.0

2008/1/18 : Masaki Katakai

To create TMX for 5.5.1 is described in http://translatedfiles.netbeans.org/docs/HOWTOs/How-to-migrate-5.5.html, it uses

ant prepare

to retrieve English sources. We need this because to create TMX, we use Java .properties Import 1.3 utility, which requires translated files and corresponding English files. However, this ant prepare is no longer supported in release60 branch. So you need another way to get English files.

If you have English sources when you translated, it's easy. Put the your translated files and English sources together in the same directory, and just run Java .properties Import 1.3 utility.

If you don't have English sources and just can get translated files from cvs, you need to do the following steps.

1. Get English sources from l10n-kit

l10n-kit is located in http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NB6L10nKit. Get the entire files from that page. The direct URL is below.

• http://translatedfiles.netbeans.org/files/documents/94/1751/combined-entire-msg.omegat.zip

This is the latest l10n-kit.

2. Get Translated files from cvs

If you don't have translated files, you can get them from cvs.netbeans.org. For the CVS instruction, please refer NetBeans CVS page.

% cvs checkout -r release60 translatedfiles/src

You can use NetBeans IDE to get them or try cvs command like above.

3. Unzip l10n-kit and prepare directories

When you unzip the entire l10n-kit combined-entire-msg.omegat.zip, you can see these two directories.

README.txt
combined-entire/
combined-entire.omegat/

combined-entire contains all English files. Please copy all directories to translatedfiles/src. Now you can see an English file and all translated files in the same directory like this. It's ready to run Java .properties Import 1.3 utility!!

translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle.properties
translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle_de.properties
translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle_es.properties
translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle_ja.properties
translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle_pl.properties
translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle_pt_BR.properties
translatedfiles/src/ide/branding/Bundle_zh_CN.properties
...

4. Run Java .properties Import utility

Now run the Java .properties Import 1.3 utility against the translatedfiles/src directory to generate a TMX file. There you should specify:

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If you have trouble preparing it, please send a request to dev@translatedfiles.netbeans.org.
Team members can offer assistance.