Preferences and Catalog Settings
Preferences Dialog
(Available through File/Preferences in the menu.)
You can set various options that affect poEdit globally and are not
related to opened catalog in Preferences. There are three tabs in
the dialog box, one for each setting group.
- Editor
- Identity
Set your name and e-mail address. This is used to fill int
`Last Translator' record in catalog's header.
- Behavior
Affects various aspects of poEdit's behavior. Automatically compile .mo file
on save will cause poEdit to run the msgfmt utility to convert
.po files to .mo ones (which is what you have to done before you can use
catalogs in your application). Show summary after catalog update
enables small window with information about added and removed translations
after doing update. Open catalogs manager on poEdit startup does
exactly what it says - if enabled, poEdit won't start up with its main
window opened but will launch the manager instead. Always change focus
to text input field affects keyboard navigation and is discussed
in the beginning of UI Overview section.
- CR/LF conversion
Lets you choose prefered text file formatting (catalogs will be saved
with this formatting). Among supported formats are Windows/DOC, Mac and
Unix line endings. If you check Don't change format of existing catalogs,
this option will only affect newly created files. It is recommended to use
Unix format, since PO files came from Unix environment.
- Translation Memory
You can setup translation memory's behavior on this tab. Please
refer to TM section for details.
- Parsers
(Warning: for experienced users only!)
Most importantly, you can
edit source code parsers in this dialog. Parsers are used when
updating catalogs in poEdit (see Updating Catalog)
and they take care of extracting strings from source code. By default
only C and C++ programming languages are supported (through
gettext xgettext utility). The dialog for editing parsers explains
in detail how to fill in required information -- if in doubt, refer to
C/C++ parser which may serve as a complex example of parser definition.
Catalog Settings
(Available through Catalog/Settings in the menu.)
This dialog lets you edit catalog specific settings. "Project info"
page contains information from catalog's header and the only really
important information here is the charset.
"Paths" and "Keywords" pages are meaningful only if you are going to
use the catalog update feature. "Paths" page lets
you specify in what directories should parsers look for source file. Note
that the paths in list box are relative to the base path, so if you set
basepath to ../../poEdit and add these two paths into the list box:
src
include
it will recursively search for source files in following directories:
../../poEdit/src
../../poEdit/include
The base path is relative to the directory where .po catalog file resists.
"Keywords" let you specify additional keywords understood by the parser.
See GNU gettext documentation section of the manual for the meaning
of keywords. By default, xgettext parser understands _,
gettext and gettext_noop keywords. You may leave this
page empty.
Note that specifying language or editing anything at "Paths" or "Keywords"
panels will cause poEdit to save .po.poedit file.