Re: Multilanguage
From: Saga (antiSpam_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 01/07/05
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 17:21:08 -0600
Thsi sounds like aninteresting idea. I am not familiar
with any tools that will do this, but that doesn't mean
that there aren't any. You -might- have to develop this
tool yourself.
Good luck!
Saga
"Frank Landen" <fishbone999NOSPAM@web.de> wrote in message
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> 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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