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How to make an app Multilingual
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22/10/2004 12:30:46
 
 
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22/10/2004 09:54:13
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00953699
Message ID:
00953773
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18
Intl Toolkit works great.
I implemented for a company I worked for as consultant. We use it for forgein languages, mainly Spanish and we use it different customer, where the medical person see different screen than the army person.

Mo

Mo
>>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.
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