Will the assignment to global variables make an impact, in terms of pyhsical memory limitations.

>>Hi Hilmar
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>>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.
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>Well, there are several things you will have to personalize. Label caption, Form caption, Option (in an OptionGroup) caption, Menu texts, menu message, menu shortcuts (for File you would want Alt-F; for Datei (the same in German) = Alt-D, etc.). And then, of course, your MessageBoxes.
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>> This idea looks good, but what are the overheads of poluating labels and strings at runtime?
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>I didn't try this myself in detail, I only helped a client set things up.
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>The text file is read on application startup. This should be relatively fast, and is done only once. Here, I would say a text file can be faster in principle, but I am not sure. Note that you can also use a DBF for easy maintenance, but give the user the final version as a text-file, which you generate. This gives them the option of adding languages, without your intervention. (You may, or may not, desire this!)
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>Then, in each form, you must do some assignments, perhaps in Form.Init(), or a method called from there:
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>ThisForm.LblClient.Caption = gc_ClientName
>ThisForm.LblPrice.Caption = gn_Price
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>I think this should be quite fast, too, but I suggest you do some speed tests.
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>HTH,
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>Hilmar.