About B_TRANSLATE_MARK

Forum thread started by Eva on Tue, 2011-01-04 00:07

I am currently reading the source code of Haiku and came across "B_TRANSLATE_MARK".
I checked http://api.haiku-os.org/classBCatalog.html but did not find any explanation
related to B_TRANSLATE_MARK there.

Could anyone tell me what is its meaning and where is its definition located? Thanks.

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Comments

Re: About B_TRANSLATE_MARK

by richienyhus - 2011-01-04 03:37

Check Catalog.h

http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/headers/os/locale/Catalog.h

Re: About B_TRANSLATE_MARK

by Eva - 2011-01-08 22:49

Thanks. :)

Re: About B_TRANSLATE_MARK

by richienyhus - 2011-01-09 04:43

Glad I could help. :D

However I was hoping someone else would jump in with a description in plain English. :S

Re: About B_TRANSLATE_MARK

by Eva - 2011-01-09 08:33

From my understanding,

B_TRANSLATE_MARK is a "marker function which is used to mark a string/id
which will be translated elsewhere in the code" according to the comment in
Catalog.h. It is a macro defined to be equivalent to BCatalogAddOn::MarkForTranslation
((str), B_TRANSLATE_CONTEXT, "") which simply returns the first argument "str".

Any comments are welcome.