[Solved] "Cannot Launch Project" while generating translations

[Karrion]

Hi! This is my first post so I hope I don't do anything wrong on my first time. Anyway, on to the topic.

I've been researching a bit on the translation side of the engine and I tried to generate an "empty" translation file to tinker with it a bit to know how much of it requires programming or if I can simply hand the files to the translator and tell him "Just write the new lines here", and that's it. I used the project "the_question" that comes with the SDK and tried to generate an "empty" translation file but got the error that "Cannot Launch Project".

The traceback.txt says the following:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

After initialization, but before game start.
Exception: Language 'spanish' does not have any translations.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\karri\Downloads\renpy-7.1.0-sdk\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 313, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Users\karri\Downloads\renpy-7.1.0-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 513, in main
run(restart)
File "C:\Users\karri\Downloads\renpy-7.1.0-sdk\renpy\main.py", line 102, in run
if not renpy.arguments.post_init():
File "C:\Users\karri\Downloads\renpy-7.1.0-sdk\renpy\arguments.py", line 287, in post_init
return commands[command]()
File "C:\Users\karri\Downloads\renpy-7.1.0-sdk\renpy\translation\extract.py", line 67, in extract_strings
extract_strings_core(language, args.destination, args.merge, args.force)
File "C:\Users\karri\Downloads\renpy-7.1.0-sdk\renpy\translation\extract.py", line 31, in extract_strings_core
raise Exception("Language %r does not have any translations." % language)
Exception: Language 'spanish' does not have any translations.

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.1.3.1092
The Question Ren'Py 7 Edition
Sat Jan 19 01:26:18 2019


Which I don't really get because of course no translation exists, that's why I want to generate it :/ Maybe I selected some option wrong on the menu?

I used these options: https://i.imgur.com/LkhuAma.png and pressed Extract String Translations.

Thanks in advance for your help

[Remix]

Press Generate Translations

tbh, you'd do lots better by doing Create New Project (which has 2 lines of dialogue as default) and doing Generate Translations in that.
It basically creates a file that says:

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# TODO: Translation updated at 2019-01-19 01:04

# game/script.rpy:27
translate german start_a170b500:

    # e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    e "" # <------ this is where your translator does their thing, the above is the None/default language

# game/script.rpy:29
translate german start_f41f55d7:

    # e "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"
    e ""

Translation files are stored in ./game_folder/tl/{language}/ btw

[Karrion]

ffs, I didn't realise that was a button, I feel so bad now >_< Thank you so much

[Remix]

Not a problem at all, just glad you are finding your way.
Welcome to Ren'Py