Re: Multilangual : how to?

From: JohnK (johnkeystone_at_noreply.net)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:44:59 +0200

Thanks all for the usefull replies you gave. I now have a lot of solutions
to try out. The 'Lexicon' solution seems to have the best opportunity,
because in the program you will still see what you are doing. On the other
hand, I will try te resource file option, too.

Best regards,
John

"Tony Proctor" <tony_proctor@aimtechnology_NOSPAM.com> schreef in bericht
news:eQpFzdSIEHA.2596@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Re: resource files -- You don't actually need to put all your translated
> texts into separate *.rc source files John. Sometimes it's easier from a
> maintenance point of view to keep them in the same source file, but
compile
> it differently to generate just, say, a compiled *.res file for French, or
> German, etc. There are ways to do this quite easily.
>
> Also, error-message texts really belong in a separate, more specialised
*.mc
> source file, although they would eventually get compiled into the same
*.res
> file. Just as *.rc files get compiled by the rc resource compiled, *.mc
> source files get compiled by the mc message compiler. If you use a lot of
> private error codes, or event logging, this is important.
>
> Does the following link help at all, or suggest any possibilities to you?
>
http://www.google.ie/groups?safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_umsgid=%23QFN3GedDHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl&lr=&hl=en
>
> Tony Proctor
>
> "JohnK" <johnk@noreply.net> wrote in message
> news:407aa73a$0$125$3a628fcd@reader3.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to make an application multilangual? Until now I used a
> > textfile with messages like: "M123=<text>" and than a textfile for every
> > language. I presume there is another way to accomplish this, i.e. by
using
> a
> > dll. I don't want the user to see textfiles and I want to manage the
texts
> > in an easy way.
> > Now the app is reading the textfile completely when starting, but I only
> > want the messages (texts) when neede (=asked for). So I just want to
> create
> > somethinmg like a language pack, but the app must remain the same all
the
> > time. (ofcourse after getting rid of the txt files)
> > I hope somebody out ther has a solution and please an example.
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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