HI
i'm interesting to translate the zinphoto gallery to arabic langauge
i have tray to do all setup but i have problemes
i give you all wat i have do
1/i have download wamp and was installed
2/i have download and install poedit
3/ i have put the zenphoto folder in c:/wamp/www/ path
4/i open poedit and to the instruction in 6 setp and i havn't any solution
is the setup i do is write or i should install znphoto?

Actually that should work, as long as the zenphoto folder is below Poedit in the folder hierachy.

I have the same problem.

Actually you don't need to have a localhost server with a running install, what of course helps testing the translation.
The base path for poedit in step 6 should be in this case "/wamp/www/path/" and the other field should contain simply "zenphoto".

Poedit must always be located on the same level or above the folders to parse, since the paths are relative.So in this example Poedit must be located and run from "c:/poedit".

To illustrate it in more detail: The windows version might be different but on Mac it works this way:
Zenphoto install: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/zenphoto (Macs don't have a c:/)
Poedit: /Applications/Poedit

Also working for me is:
Zenphoto install: /Applications/zenphoto
Poedit: /Applications/Poedit

I hope that helps. I will add that details to the tutorial.

It didnt work for me.
I have poedit on: C:\Program Files\poEdit
I have zenphoto on: C:\Program Files\zenphoto

I try to use relative path: \zenphoto\zp-core\locale\he_IL\LC_MESSAGES\
and got the same error

What error exactly do you get?

Sorry, actually that should work. This might be a specific Windows problem though, I have only a Mac, so I can't test it. I will see that one of my fellows using Windows dev will try it too.

Btw, you never need to link to the LC_Messages folder, you link to the folde(s) to parse.

Is it possible to get the empty mo/po files? Without the German translation?

I could generate them, but you always would have to start from scratch for every new version of zenphoto if you want to maintain your language. Regarding updates it's recommended to do frequent update with the nightlies / svn version to not have to do them all at once. We change quite a lot around. Sure Poedit seems to have the ability to join files, but more convenient would be to parse yourself.

Anyway, this would be an escape from the problem. Would you mind to sign to our google translators group and ask there? For someone it actually seems to work somehow on none-Macs. If you don't want to, I can of course ask there, too.

It's not the reason Im asking for a blank pot file. I can't see the % of lines that are already translated and the poedit can't separate the none-translated lines.

I understand what why you want the empty .po-file, but as a I said above that does not really elp solve the issue. It must work somehow to parse zenphoto and it does for some people.