gardner@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (11/26/90)
I was wondering if anyone could explain how to use a STRING resource in a dialog box... I am writing an accounting package that could be targeted to various international markets and the use of STRING's would make it much more portable... Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mike Gardner Summit Software Engineering
gardner@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (11/27/90)
After re-reading the previous help message concerning the use of STRING resources, I found that it wasn't very specific... So lets try again! I want to be able to create a string table and use the entries as replacements for the usual "static text" used in a dialog box for controls. For example, in my About... dialog box, I would like to have a STRING resource be used for all the information that is displayed. +------------------------------------------+ | About | +------------------------------------------+ | | | Copyright (c) 1990 | | | | +----------+ | | | Ok | | | +----------+ | +------------------------------------------+ (in resource file...) STRINGTABLE BEGIN IDS_ABOUT_CAPTION, "About" IDS_COPYRIGHT, "Copyright (c) 1990" IDS_OK, "Ok" END Does anyone know if it is possible (...and if so, how...) to write these string resources to a dialog box? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Mike Gardner Summit Software Engineering
spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) (11/27/90)
In article <2116.2750d1c5@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> gardner@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: >I was wondering if anyone could explain how to use a STRING resource in a >dialog box... The idea of internationalizationability (whew!) is that you have all the text the user sees in one place, ideally one file, so by translating that one file you can localize. In the Windows model, that file is the .RC (resource) file which contains dialog boxes, strings, Accelerators, etc. If your dialog box template is defined in your .rc file, you will not need to use STRING resources. Let the translators just translate the whole dialog box. In some cases, this will require modifying the layout of the dialog box -- for example when you go to Tok Pisin you will discover that "File Name" takes aobut 50 characters... or when you go to Arabic, the layout will probably be right - to - left. Also the accelerators will change: if Alt-S used to mean File Save, and you are converting to Esperanto where this function is now called Filo Ekribe you may want to change the accelerator to Alt-E. Joel Spolsky spolsky@cs.yale.edu Silence = Death
spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) (11/27/90)
In article <2129.27512297@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> gardner@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes: > >Does anyone know if it is possible (...and if so, how...) to write these >string resources to a dialog box? Any help would be greatly appreciated! If my previous response didn't satisfy you, the answer is that you load the string using LoadString and then stuff it into the control using SetDlgItemText. But if your dialog boxes are already defined in the resource file, it is silly to do this. Joel Spolsky spolsky@cs.yale.edu Silence = Death