Leo Vandijck

Update. After some research I found out editing PO files and creating the corresponding MO file iturns out to be rather straightforward and hardly demanding. Using POedit and/or EazyPO I have been able to correct (e.g. a number of typos) and edit the existing PO file and generate the new MO file. Surprisingly I then met with new and unexpected issues. I.e. some of the corrections showed up when using eXe, whereas others were simply not embedded. Example: I translated some elements (“Available iDevices”, and “Advanced mode” etc) to Dutch, thus making it easier for some colleagues who tend to be startled by anything English to work with eXe. Although these entries are found both in the PO file and the corresponding MO file, they are not used by eXe. It keeps using the unchanged messages. Queer.

Addendum. Just checked out your solution and it turns out to be more comprehensive than I thought or understood at first: adding the extra lines actually changes the message for every Close activity in the entire eXeE lesson pack. So just one change necessary for ever eXe pack, which is really a small trouble to get to this result. Thanks again. I’m only just getting to understand the internal workings of eXe, but that’s intriguing as well.

Thank you very much. Of course this requires adjusting all Cloze-activities inserted in a package, but I can live with that. <br />I suppose in a similar way other button messages can be altered as well? BTW you mention editing the PO file (which is something I might do, after all it’s just editing a flat text file) and then generating a new MO file. Is the latter more technically demanding? And does it require specific software?As you may notice, working with eXe is not the problem. Actually I have been using it since its first “original” version (from New Zealand) and have had quite some interesting results with it. In those days I taught secondary school pupils. After my retirement I have been helping out at primary school level and there things (and messages) sometimes have to be simplified. That’s why I am looking at changing some messages.