Ircle Reference - Installation

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Fig. 1. Ircle Disk Image.

After you downloaded ircle, you will have an image file similar to the icon above on your hard disk.
When you double click it, Disk Utility will try to mount the disk image. An extra virtual disk will be displayed in your Finder.
Some browsers, such as Safari, will automatically launch Disk Utility to mount the image file.

Fig. 2. Opened Ircle Disk Image.

When you double click the ircle virtual disk you will see a picture like the one above. There are 4 items:

enabling ident using Terminal.txt: a file describing how to enable the the ident server in OS X. Some IRC servers do some extra verification of the user connecting, and query your ident server. It is a very technical document. As a first time user, you can leave it for later reading.
the ircle application itself. (the earth icon).
a read me file. Please read this file before launching ircle. It contains some last minute news.
OS X scripts. These are some AppleScript scripts to expand ircles features.

To install ircle, create a folder somewhere on your HD, select all 4 items in the ircle disk image window, and move (copy) them to the newly created folder. After copying, you can move the virtual disk into the Trash to unmount it.

Setting the preferred translation

There are 2 methods to select the correct translation that Ircle will use when launched. A general setting, in the System Preferences, and a setting per application, through the Show Info... window in the Finder.

General setting: select the International icon in the System Preferences.

Fig. 3. The International icon in the System Preferences.

You will get a window like the one below:

Fig. 4. The International tab in the System Preferences.

As you can you can enable/disable languages you would like to see in applications. You may also drag languages in the correct order. If one translation is not available in an application you launchm, the OS will try the next one in the list.
In the list above, if an application is not available in English, OS X will try to locate the Nederlands (Dutch) translation, then the Vlaams (Flemish) and then the U.S. English translation, andsoforth.

Setting the translation per application:

Select the Ircle application in the Finder. Select Show Info... from the File menu. A new window appears:

Fig. 5. The 'Show Info...' window in the Finder.

By clicking the checkboxes in the Languages frame you can enable or disable particular translations. Note that the labels there may have cryptic names. In the picture above, 'da' stands for Danish, 'de' for German, 'en_GB' for UK English, 'en_US' for US English. It is recommended you select translations in the System Preferences.
You may see a greyed out label in the Show Info... window. That is the translation OS X currently prefers, according to your System Preferences. You can disable/delete all translations but one, of course.

After setting the translation, locate your Ircle folder on your HD, and double click the Ircle application icon to launch it.