Re: Multilanguage

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From: Frank Landen (fishbone999NOSPAM_at_web.de)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 00:14:32 +0100

Thanks for answer. I thought to put the translations into a database. But
isn´t there a tool, that give me all strings from a project ? p.e. like
this:

1. Collect a list from all strings in a project
2. User choose which strings should be translated
3. The tool replace the selected strings with variables or functions (which
return the selected language string "langstring(language, stringnumber")
4. Output the selected strings from 2. in a list/table

I think it wouldn´t be very difficult to write an app for this, but the
tools i´ve found for localizations are to complex.

Frank

> The resource file is only a storage space, you can switch languages
> on the fly while the user is in the application. You do; however, need
> the code everywhere where you want this functionality.
>
> Other alternatives to the resource file (although some not the best
> way) are:
>
> Text files
> Collections
> Database tables
>
> One place where I would never put the language info is in the
> registry! <g>
>
> Once the user swithceslanguage, do you want it to be sticky?
> That is, that the app use the last selected language on start up.
> If so, then you'll need to store the option selected somewhere
> (the registry is a feasible option for this).
>
> If you are switchng languages, take care to take into account
> everything, including possible differences in number, currency
> and date formatting.
>>
>> I´ve wrote a really big application in vb6 and now, i´ve to implement a
>> multilanguage function in it. I´ve searched with google for a tool, which
>> i could use to do the localization without having so much work. I now the
>> resource-file.... ...but isnt there nothing else ?
>> It would be nice, when I could change the language at runtime, and not
>> only at program-start (p.e. multilizer)

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