Each time you change the messages used in your plugin, you will have to update your POT file and the primary .po file that you created when you first created the POT file. Each time you publish a new version of your plugin, you may end up re-reading this chapter so you can regenerate your translation files. You are familiar with the process now, and Poedit makes it fairly straightforward.
Launch Poedit and open your existing .pot
file. Double-clicking on the POT file may cause PowerPoint to launch because it too uses the .pot
extension.
Mac only: We encountered some difficulties using the Mac version of Poedit: it was unable to easily open an existing .pot
file. You can either drag the .pot
file onto the Poedit icon while holding down the option + Apple keys to force Poedit to open the file, or when you click on the Open button inside of Poedit, make sure you enable the All files (*.*) option so you can correctly select your .pot
file.
Once you have opened your POT catalog...