Re: Resource DLLs

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"jklioe" <ranu2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1189486347.840843.133570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have created an application in MFC (Dialog based)and created
satellite dlls in different languages
and I call the dll as follow:

HINSTANCE hInstance = LoadLibrary(_T("MyAppKorean.dll"));

AfxSetResourceHandle(hInstance)

Strings that are in string table displays properly ie in locale
language .

While strings in Dialogs appears in default language ie English .

If your dialogues in the resource DLL are translated, then it should work as lomng as you are using the right resource handle at the right moment.

I do it as follows (currently with English in the programs resources and Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish in separate resource DLLs.

I define a class - schematically

class MY_UI
{
//...
};

Its constructor uses AfxSetResourceHandle to set the language I want to use and remembers the previous resource handle (as a class member).

Its destructor uses AfxSetResourceHandle to reset the previous handle.

MY_UI has a member function for each dialogue box in the program, which handles the dialogue, typically of the form:

BOOL MY_UI::editSomething( SOMETHING &x, CWnd *pParent )
{
BOOL bResult(FALSE);

CDgEditSomething Dlg( x, pParent );

if( Dlg.DoModal()==IDOK )
{
x = Dlg.dgGetResult();
bResult = TRUE;
}

return bResult;
}

Then it is used with

MY_UI myui;
bResult = myui.editSomething( x, pParent )

and it just works. I set it up a year or so ago and have never had to worry about it since. I only have to remember to use dialogues always from within a member of MY_UI

Dave
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