Re: [Enigma-devel] "Level finished!" messages without mention of par

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Am 17.08.2011 18:09, schrieb Roy McCoy:
> I've been trying to get a modified version of Enigma
> that says simply "Level finished!" at the end of each level
> rather than adding anything about par, but have only a partial
> solution from my requests at mag-heut.net and the Yahoo Oxyd
> group. Namely, someone sent me a version that purportedly was
> so modified, but the first level I played with it ended not
> with the desired message but with one I'd never seen before
> that said I'd broken my own record but was still under par.
>
> Every level after that ended with "Level finished!" and so
> I thought the anomalous first one was just a joke, that the
> guy had programmed it to do that and always deliver "Level
> finished!" thereafter, but he wrote me that it wasn't a joke,
> that there were various messages, he'd changed only one of them
> and didn't consider it worth the trouble to change the others.
> I can understand his attitude, particularly since there was only
> the one other message and it came up only once (it apparently
> having been a strange coincidence that this was precisely the
> first time I ran the modified version), but at the same time
> it still seems to me to be something that would be about the
> most easy mod you could make to the program if you were a
> programmer and knew what you were doing.

I agree with you and Daniel, that these messages are not motivating. But 
in a program that supports many languages you should generally avoid 
changes in text messages. That is the simple reason that we never 
touched these texts within the last releases.

Fortunatly there is a simple workaround to change messages on your 
privat copy of Enigma. You can compile your own "translation" and feed 
it to Enigma as one of the supported languages.

Just do the following steps to substitute the Finnish translation by 
your own texts:
1. Download the sourcecode of your Enigma release
2. Copy "po/enigma.pot" to a working directory
3. Rename the copy to "fi.po"
4. Execute "msgfmt -c --statistics -o enigma.mo fi.po"
5. Copy the resulting output file "enigma.mo" to the appropriate enigma
subdirectory (fi meand Finnish):
  data\locale\fi\LC_MESSAGES\enigma.mo

Note that you will likely need to download and to install the tool 
"msgfmt" out of Gnu gettext. A Windows version is located at 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm

Of course you will need to select your substituion language (Finnish) 
when play Enigma to see your own texts.

> Somebody in the Yahoo group suggested that I join this list
> and ask here, so that's what I've now done.

Thanks Jennifer - would you be interested in further graphics contributions?

Greets,

Ronald