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

[Roy McCoy]

Well, okay, I'm not worrying about changing other messages anymore, since it 
was only the one that was bothering me and it's been adequately changed.

I'm now wondering, however, whether Esprit 36 is working. I would assume it was 
if 38 people have solved it, but on the other hand there seem to be some 
strange things about it - that the cherries weren't working, for a while, for 
example. They make me invisible now, but being invisible doesn't enable me to 
do anything I can't do when visible. I saw something about being invisible for 
rotors, but I haven't seen any rotors on this level, just the wormholes at the 
ends that only bounce from one end to the other. Can someone please advise?

Thanks,

Roy McCoy



> Ronald wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks for this explanation.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well, I can at least try to do that.
> 
>> Just do the following steps to substitute the Finnish translation by your 
>> own texts:
>> 1. Download the sourcecode of your Enigma release
> 
> Where is that for the latest Mac OS version? I don't have a version number, 
> but the files are dated May 26, 2007.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roy McCoy
> 
> 
> 
>> 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