Re: [XBoard-devel] Code formatting

[H.G. Muller]

Op 4/6/2016 om 10:20 PM schreef Roland Illig:
> When I looked at xoption.c, it seemed like a total mess to me.
Yeah, that is what you get when several different people with different 
styles
contribute code...
> While there, I noticed this code:
>
>      strcmp(option[i].name, "*")
>
> Would that still work if I were to translate the "*" to something
> different than "*"?
Yes, that would still work. The N_() around the "*" in the Option table
is just a marker to make software other than the compiler notice the "*" 
string,
so that it ends up in the .pot file. To the compiler it is a no-op, and 
the string
stays untranslated in the .name field of the Option. So the strcmp() 
compares
the untranslated .name with an untranslated "*" to recognize it. To create
the button with gtk_button_new_with_label(), the option[i].name is 
surrounded
with _(), so that the translation for "*" will appear on the button.

The same for the other one-letter buttons "B", "R" and "G" that are 
recogized
in the GTK version of xoptions.c in order to be ignored.