Hi, Bhavbhuti
>I like your idea of a text/dbf for switching text on the fly. I had completely forgotten about labels, I was thinking about string messages. This idea looks good, but what are the overheads of poluating labels and strings at runtime?
Of course, there would be an impact on performance, but most of the time this could be almost unnoticeable. If you had all the keywords in an open cursor (which you can populate from a DBF or a text file), and you access it trough a method such as:
oApp.Language.Translate( "This is a string" )
oApp.Language.Translate( this.Caption )
There shouldn't be a great performance. Also, you can instrument your base classes so they take care of adapting to the context language setting. In VFP 8.0, I'd rather use BindEvent, so I don't have to touch my classes, but rather use an external approach.
The best you can do is to take your most complex form and make some tests.
Hope this helps,
