Aaron,
I did a bit more experimenting after changing the Language IDs in the XML to
hex values, like you suggested. Below, I have pasted my code as it now
stands. At least, it does populate the list, and it does throw no errors on
me. Yet, the app still insists on running with English strings, even if I
choose Norwegian.
As you will see, I threw in a couple of Speak commands. These are mere
"debuggers", just to ensure that things really happen, the way I expected
them to. And, yes, the ClientInformation now gets set, and stays set. So
why then, does not the UI Language change for the app? What else am I doing
wrong?
Speak ClientInformation.UILanguage
Dim ChooseUILanguage: Set ChooseUILanguage =
SharedObjects("com.GWMicro.GWToolkit.SelectLanguage").NewDialog
ChooseUILanguage.XMLFile = MyXMLFile
ChooseUILanguage.UseDecimal = True
ClientInformation.UILanguage = CInt( ChooseUILanguage.Show )
Speak ClientInformation.UILanguage
Set myStrings = Strings( MyXMLFile )
Set ChooseUILanguage = Nothing
Thanks,
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: User User controlled Interface Language
Aaron,
OK, changing no to 414, and en-us to 409, gives the following.
The list now gets populated with Norwegian and English United States.
Arrowing to one of them, and then clicking the Continue button, gives me
an error.
It now tells me, there is a wrong Procedure call or Argument. And which
line is it in? The
ClientInformation.UILanguage = ChooseUILanguage.Show
line, in my code as I sent it to you.
Hmm. First of all, we now are back to where we were before the update of
Toolkit. The list gets populated, but ClientInformation cannot use the
returned value from the SelectLanguage feature. And, all of this, I could
perform before the update, without any modification of the X XML file.
Smile.
So, first of all, Toolkit definitely should be able to handle the Language
ID that UIDesign creates automatically. Anything else, would be
inconsistent?
Secondly, Either the SelectLanguage should return a valid ID, no matter
what it receives from the XML. Or, the ClientInformation.UILanguage should
be able to accept what it gets from the SelectLanguage. Kind of surprises
me, the whole thing here. Not sure, what else the SelectLanguage would be
used for, but exactly what I am doing. Smile.
Anyway, thanks for your work. I do appreciate if we can have this stuff
worked out.
Thanks again,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: User User controlled Interface Language
David,
What if you change those values to be hex instead of no and en-us? The
toolkit probably needs to take all possible values into account.
Aaron
On 5/25/2012 10:13 AM, David wrote:
<language id="no">
<language id="en-us">
That's it.
Now, here is one more thing. Even if I delete the
ChooseUILanguage.UseDecimal = True
line, the thing still happens, same error pops up.
Furthermore, the dialog opens, but there is no entries in the list.
Yesterday, with the old GWToolkit, the very same XML did produce two
entries in the dialog's list: Norwegian, and English United States.
So, seems to me, something got broken here. With the UseDecimal line
deleted, I am back to what I had from before, hence I'd expect it to
have produced the same entries, at least in that case. But still, the
dialog with the new GWToolkit is without any entries. Did you have
success in testing the new version on some XMLs? I haven't tried the
approach on any other app, but as I said, running the app like
yesterday, still results in an empty list, which was populated
yesterday. Strange. Smile.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: User User controlled Interface Language
David,
What are the language values in your XML?
Aaron
On 5/25/2012 9:54 AM, David wrote:
Thanks Aaron,
quick work. Yet, seems to have a bug, or I am doing something wrong.
(Maybe it's me, who is the bug? Smile)
My code looks like this:
Dim ChooseUILanguage: Set ChooseUILanguage =
SharedObjects("com.GWMicro.GWToolkit.SelectLanguage").NewDialog
ChooseUILanguage.XMLFile = MyXMLFile
ChooseUILanguage.UseDecimal = True
ClientInformation.UILanguage = ChooseUILanguage.Show
Set myStrings = Strings( MyXMLFile )
Set ChooseUILanguage = Nothing
Running it, I get the following error:
An Error Occurred in GW Toolkit 8.4.9 (800A000D)
Description: Type mismatch: 'Utilities.ConvertLanguageIDToString'
Line: 4178 - dObj.Control("lst_languages").Add
parmObj.Languages(keys(i)),
Utilities.ConvertStringToLanguageId(Utilities.ConvertLanguageIdToString("&H"
& keys(i)))
Path: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\GW
Micro\Window-Eyes\users\default\gwtoolkit.vbs
Signed: "GW Micro, Inc."
Also, If the user click Cancel, which return value will be given, that
I can check on the value - or in any other way - only set
ClientInforamtion.UILanguage if there was a real choice made.
Thanks again,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: User User controlled Interface Language
Version 8.4.9 of the toolkit adds a new property to the
SelectLanguage class called UseDecimal. If you set this, you'll get
the language ID back instead of the name. In otherwords, if you do
something like this:
Set l =
SharedObjects("com.gwmicro.gwtoolkit.selectlanguage").newdialog
l.xmlfile = "blah.xml"
print l.show()
You might get something back, like "English (United States")
If you set the new property to true, like this:
Set l =
SharedObjects("com.gwmicro.gwtoolkit.selectlanguage").newdialog
l.xmlfile = "blah.xml"
l.UseDecimal = True
print l.show()
Then you might get back something like 1033. You can then pass that
value to ClientInformation.UILanguage.
Aaron
On 5/25/2012 8:42 AM, Stephen Clower wrote:
David,
The line is failing because you must pass a valid locale ID instead
of the friendly string representation that is being returned by the
toolkit. There isn't a straight-forward way to do this on your end,
but we will add a way to retrieve a valid locale from the dialog in
an update which will go out shortly.
Steve
On 5/24/2012 6:47 PM, David wrote:
Thanks, here is my code snip:
Dim LangDialog
Set langDialog =
SharedObjects("com.GWMicro.GWToolkit.SelectLanguage").NewDialog
langDialog.XMLFile = MyXMLFile
dim ChosenLanguage: ChosenLanguage = langDialog.Show
ClientInformation.UILanguage = ChosenLanguage
Set myStrings = Strings( MyXMLFile )
Set LangDialog = Nothing
The above code, produces an error on the ClientInformation line,
saying
invalid procedure call or argument.
Why, and what is it I miss here?
Thanks again,
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Clower"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: User User controlled Interface Language
David,
Once you have your chosen language identifier, such as "en" for
English, set your ClientInformation.UILanguage property
accordingly
and reload your XML file; e.g.
ClientInformation.UILanguage = "en"
Set myStrings = Strings("MyStringFile.xml")
HTH,
Steve
On 5/24/2012 3:38 PM, David wrote:
OK, I really could use a bit of help here. I've been scrolling
the
Scripting manual, and also the manual for the toolkit. I think I
am
on the right track, but really can't see how to achieve my goal.
First of all, though, let me just point out, there seems to be a
typo
in the GWToolkit helpfile. Under SelectLanguage, it gives the
following example:
Set langDialog =
SharedObjects("com.GWMicro.GWToolkit.MessageBox").NewDialog
langDialog.XMLFile = "gwtoolkit.xml"
langDialog.Show
Hmm, shouldn't the "MessageBox" rather be "SelectLanguage"? At
least,
when I changed it to be, I can get the listbox of available
languages
to show up. So, my code looks like this:
Set langDialog =
SharedObjects("com.GWMicro.GWToolkit.SelectLanguage").NewDialog
langDialog.XMLFile = "MyApp.xml"
langDialog.Show
So far, things look OK. And, if I change the last line to read:
Speak LangDialog.Show
, it does speak out the chosen language, when I am done with the
selection. I.e, it would say "English US".
Good. Now only, is to use this 'result' for something. I then
browsed
the Scripting manual, and found the
ClientInformation.UILanguage
instruction. Thinking that I could use that one for something, I
tried:
ClientInformation.UILanguage = LangDialog.Show
, but am met with an error on that line.
So GW, or whoever, what do I do, so as to actually apply the
chosen
language from the LangDialog.Show instruction, so that this
chosen
language will become the active UI language for the app?
Thanks for any feedback here. Maybe I am loosing a main point, or
could it be that I am totally off-track?
----- Original Message -----
From: David
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:43 PM
Subject: User User controlled Interface Language
OK, so the scenario is this:
My app has an XML file. In here, there is an US English section,
and
a local translation. Later on, we might get more translations
added on.
I have currently, set the XML up with a language order -
WE,os,en-us
- which would be the standard of the app.
What I want, is to offer the end-user a way of choosing his
interface
language, no matter which localized/international version of the
OS
or WE he is running. I do understand, I would have to somehow
gather
the info, as to which languages are available in the XML file.
Then,
I guess, drop this into a listbox, and let the user make his
choice.
Two questions araise:
1. Exactly what would be the water-proof way of collecting info
as to
which languages are available?
2. If now, the user chooses a language, is there an instruction I
could give to the app, so as to have it change the language for
the
interface? Or, will I have to write a somehow lengthy routine to
modify the XML file, to accomplish such user controlled language
switching?
Thanks for your advice!
--
Stephen Clower
Product support specialist & App Development
GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN
46825
260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com
--
Aaron Smith
Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist
GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825
260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com
To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past
correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information
pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the
GW
Micro Technical Support Team.
--
Aaron Smith
Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist
GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825
260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com
To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past
correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information
pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW
Micro Technical Support Team.
--
Aaron Smith
Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist
GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825
260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com
To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past
correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information
pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW
Micro Technical Support Team.
