>Hi guys,
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>I've been ask by my company to learn how difficult it will be to design a new system (obviously in VFP 8) with the capability of changing the language at the click of a button. My only approach is to populate labels, menus, captions, tool tips, messages… from one or multiple tables where we have previously populate the data in different languages.
>Is there a better approach? Are there any third party systems that help on multi-language environments? One of the directors in the company claims that there is software that translates every string in compilation time. I have never heard of this.
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>Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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>Thanks guys.
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>Paco Calvente.

Probably the best tool around for this is INTL by Steven Black. It allows you to translate menus, reports, every control (labels, buttons, ...) and even MessageBox() and much more. Highly recommended, from a satisfiecd user.

http://www.stevenblack.com/intlmain.asp