Don't flag missing translations of empty strings

[m-siscogit]

I have a custom control used in a lot of places in my current project. This control has three properties, WarningText, TrimStart, and TrimEnd. Since I updated to version 1.105.6740, ResX Manager has started complaining about missing translations for these properties, even though these properties are empty in the Neutral language. So I end up with 100's of needless warnings (which makes it a challenge to find warnings I care about).

Yes, I can go through and mark all of these properties Invariant, but that's a lot of useless work, and has the negative side effect that if I ever do provide values for some of those properties, then they won't be translated or even flagged as needing translation.

[tom-englert]

There was no change in that area, empty neutral values have been always considered to be an error.
I don't see any alternative to the invariant flag.
If you would turn that check off globally, you would miss other errors.

[m-siscogit]

This is a rather unsatisfying response. I don't understand why an empty neutral value would be considered an error. Certainly, many cases must exist where string properties on controls are optional. An empty string is already translated into any available language.

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[tom-englert]

Sorry for the inconvenience, but this product is on the market for 14 years now, with 600k+ installs, and no one ever complained about this, so it does not look like a main stream issue.

I hope you understand that we can't change such a fundamental feature just because it's inconvenient for one user, and break the expectations of all others.

You can however fork the sources and create your own personal version, or submit a PR where this feature is optional and off by default.