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to: BRYAN SMITH
from: FRANCOIS PIETTE
date: 1997-03-29 09:50:00
subject: Language specific dialogs

Salut Bryan Smith !
Dans un message de Bryan Smith dat‚ du 27 Mar 97  16:37:21 il ‚tait dit:
  FP>> Here in belgium we
  FP>> must create bi or tri-lingual applications (french, dutch and deutch).
  FP>> One solution consist of iteration thru every control on every form
  FP>> (there is a controls array in each form) and replace the caption
  FP>> property for what is necessary. For example, you can design your
  FP>> application with every caption set as a message number. Iterating thru
  FP>> the control and replacing the numbers by the messages fetch from a
  FP>> database or a string table resource will do the job, at
  FP>> run-time
  BS> We have the same problem - how to run in both
  BS> English and French - in Canada. Do you have any suggestions about how
  BS> to deal withcontrols, such as file-selection controls, that seem to
  BS> have American English language hard-coded into them ?
If you are talking about windows build in common controls, they are 
localized. If you use the Win95 french version, all the messages are n 
french. If you us the Win95 US version, they are in english. So there 
is not problem as long as you use the right windows 95 version for 
your user.
But if you use an english version for Win95 and a french version for 
your program, you'll have system level messages (including common 
dialog boxes) in english ! No solution for that.
If you are talking about specific Delphi dialog boxes, there is a tool 
at Borland wich does the job to localize them. I never used it.
Amiti‚s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
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