Thanks Karen once again :) Okay your hint about Tahoma font help solved one problem :) Now the column headings on grids show correctly thanks a lot for that. (Reports seemed to be okay even without Tahoma font set but I of course I have not checked in great detail) But the main menu tabs and buttons still do not show Chinese. Are you saying it is not possible to get these to show in Chinese in AX3.0? Thanks James
_____ From: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com [mailto:axapta-knowledge-vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Karen Sent: 28 March 2009 16:46 To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Re: Replacing label file in AX3.0 hi James AX3.0 uses double-byte and you will not be able to make the labels show up proper characters on the menu items and tab captions and menu item buttons etc, though some of the labels will be ok on the forms and as for data, you need to set the database collation and code page in control panel > regional settings and install the ime pack for Chinese. when running the ime, in some cases, the input editor doesn't appear where the mouse focus is so it can be quite annoying to the user. you will also need to change the font in the options to use Tahoma, if i remember correctly, for your reports. after doing all this, i believe some elements of the UI will still show traces of gibberish. i would recommend an upgrade to 4.0 SP1 at the very least in order for your CN application to work as designed.. regards,Karen --- In Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com, "James Flavell" <djf1...@...> wrote: > > Thanks Malcom > > I did a quick test and seem to be able to move an AX4.0 label file to AX3.0 > by deleting the first few characters in the ald file. > All seems well :) > > BUT I realised maybe there is a major flaw in my plan :( ... because the > Chinese label file in AX4.0 is I think unicode but I dont think AX3.0 can > support this right? > > If I open the AX4.0 chinese ald file with notepad on my windows xp (which > has the east asia fonts installed) I see chinese but when I start up AX3.0 > with the same file its just the individual ASCII characters I see :( > > Is there some startup parameter for AX3.0 I need? Or is it really that Ax4.0 > chinese label file is no use to me? > > Thanks again Malcolm and everyone else for your help > I hope I can repay it in the near future > James > > _____ > > From: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Burtt > Sent: 26 March 2009 21:28 > To: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Replacing label file in AX3.0 > > > > > It's been some time since we looked at this but I'm pretty sure that we > exhausted all obvious and easy solutions before resorting to writing the > export feature. > > From: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Flavell > Sent: 26 March 2009 11:54 > To: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Replacing label file in AX3.0 > > Thanks Malcom > > I was not aware of the extra characters in the AX4.0 so thanks for that. > Could you not just copy and paste from line 2 to the end of teh AX4.0 into a > AX3.0 file? > > Your solution to export and import is something I had not considered and I > will for sure email you directly to follow up on that thanks > > Thank you very much > > James > > James Flavell > > CITP Singapore Pte Ltd > > Mobile: +65 97582281 > > Email: d...@... <mailto:d...@...> COM > > _____ > > From: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Malcolm Burtt > Sent: 26 March 2009 19:35 > To: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Replacing label file in AX3.0 > > Hi James > > I've not done much with the help files but, given the fact that the help > format changed between versions 3 and 4 I suspect that there's no chance > that you can back port the files between versions. > > You don't need to worry about the ALT file - so long as you stop all object > servers before you start messing with label files then the ALT file will be > empty. > > Sadly, you can't copy the AX 4 label file back to AX 3 (I've tried) as > Microsoft have added some extra characters in at the beginning of the file > that makes it non-portable (I even tried removing them with no joy). Have > you thought about creating a version 3 format XPO from AX 4 containing all > the labels instead and then importing that into version 3? You'll need to > write some code to generate that (or email me direct as I have already done > this) but it's a relatively simple process and makes moving labels from AX 4 > to AX 3 really easy. > > Malcolm Burtt > > Touchstone Group > > People - Partnership - Solutions > > Malcolm > > From: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Flavell > Sent: 26 March 2009 02:33 > To: Axapta-Knowledge- <mailto:Axapta-Knowledge-Village%40yahoogroups.com> vill...@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Replacing label file in AX3.0 > > Hi everyone > > I want to setup a Chinese label file and use in AX3.0 > > My understanding is I can take one of the existing label files that I dont > use and put Chinese words in it and then just rename the label file to a > spare language I have in my license > > Example: > > Copy en-us ald file > > Translate > > Rename translated ald to en-gb (en-gb is my spare language in my license) > > Start AX with en-gb as the language > > Apart from the ald is there other files that need translation? > > I can see there are other files but believe I do not need to do anything to > them: > > ALT - Temp labels > > AHD - Online Help Data File > > KHD - Kernel Help Data File. This one I am not sure...if this is not > translated it means kernel errors etc will still be in English is it? > > ADD - Developer Help File > > Has anyone tried taking the AX4/2009 chinese label files and rename and put > in AX3.0. Is it possible? Is there a lot of rework required due to > different label ids etc? > > Could the same be done for the AHD,KHD and ADD files from AX4/2009? > > Thanks again everyone > > James >
