>Hi.
>We have an app (with about 300 forms) , all written in English.
>English is embedded ,mostly as captions on forms , but also MessageBoxes and Wait windows scattered around screens.
>
>We have been asked look at installing the APP in French.... I'm wondering what the options are.. I'f prefer just to have one code base to maintain.
>
>Any ideas welcome.
>Regards,
>Gerard
Put your constants into INI files (well, any text files), or into DBF files. Personally, I prefer the INI version, that allows the user to add additional languages or edit constants, without special software.
My download for automated backup,
http://www.levelextreme.com/wconnect/wc.dll?FournierTransformation~2,54,33,10009 , shows how you can read constants from an INI file.
For the menu, generate the menu once, and then do changes in the MPR file.
If you want a commercial solution, there is an Intl Toolkit, by Steven Black - but I didn't use it, so I can't vouch for it.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
