Re: RE : multi lingual

Thanks Charles, very helpful,

Gene

On 15 May 2007 at 9:26, Charles Melice wrote:

> Hi Gene,
>
> I use a ".INI" initialisation file to do that.
>
> For the dialogbox, I use the dialog title (simplified) like a
> section. Below is a sample in my RESOURCE_SPAIN.INI file:
>
> [DLG Bibliotheques]
> Title=Biblioteca
> Creer=&Crear
> Importer=&Importar
> Supprimer=&Eliminar
> Mise a jour=&Actualizar
>
> When a dialogbox opens, all the text are translated in the WM_INITDIALOG,
> with the next Forth word:
>
> : TRANSLATE-DLG ( hdlg -- )
> dup TRANSLATE-TEXT
> ( hdlg) GW_CHILD GetWindow
> BEGIN dup WHILE
> dup RECURSE
> GW_HWNDNEXT GetWindow
> REPEAT drop ;
>
>
> I define initially the dialogbox in French.
>
> TRANSLATE-DLG do the following:
>
> For each child window in dialogbox
> take the text, suppress/convert special character to build some
> ORIGINAL_STRING.
> Search for a match of all VAR_STRING of the _section_ inside the
> ORIGINAL_STRING.
> If found -> replace the text.
>
> The advantage is that I don't have to use resource identifiers.
> The work of the translator is easy:
> - open any dialogbox
> - create a section with dialog title
> - translate title ( Title=Biblioteca )
> - for each string, take a signifiant word = VAR_STRING
> - translate the string ( VAR_STRING=translated text )
>
> For menu and pure strings, the work is more easy.
>
> [MENU Fichier]
> 0=&Nuevo
> 1=&Abrir\tCtrl + O
> 2=&Guardar\tCtrl + S
> 3=G&uardar como
> 4=&Cerrar
> 5=&Imprimir\tCtrl + P
> 6=C&onfigurar impresora
> 7=&Parámetros
> 8=Con&vertir
> 8.0=E-&Mail <<<<<< sub-menu
> 8.1=&Exportar DXF
> 8.2=&Importar DXF
> 9=&Salir
>
>
> [STRINGS]
> 1=Tamaño. %d x %d
> 2=Límite tamaño entre 32 y 1024.
> 3=Pass %d/%d - render line %d / %d - <Esc> para parar"
> 4=Inicio render radio
> 5=Listo
> ....
>
> ________
> Charles
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] De la part de
> Gene LeFave
> Envoyé : lundi 14 mai 2007 22:20
> À : sftalk_at_forth.com
> Objet : [sftalk] multi lingual
>
>
> Need to get some ideas on multi lingual strings.
>
> I'm looking at the MS message complier in the SDK but not sure of how to
> get the message resource attached to an sf exe, or how to create an empty
> dll with nothing in it but the string resource. Much less the not
> insignificant
> task of managing all the strings.
>
>
> I'm looking at US, UK , French and Spanish. No non latin alphabets.
>
> Seems to me that STRING could convert the given string into a hash
> number, place the string into a string resource file (possible?) f it's not
> there
> and then at run time look it up again, with an added language modifier..
> Then we take the resource file and get some translator to write the
> translations. Hopefully, this isn't too much harder then it sounds.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Gene
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