Thank you. > I'm guessing that the strings you're referring to are being displayed > in a dialog by POSE -
No, the text was drawn to the screen using WinPaintChars. Jan Slodicka ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Krugler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:20 AM Subject: Re: Japanese > >Could you please explain what do you mean by Japanese support installed? > > > >Acc. to my own experience Japanese emulator is not enough. Once I got > >screenshots from our app taken on some Japanese Clie emulator by a Japanese > >user. I was not able to display the same strings as he saw (I got just some > >junk characters) despite using the same prc, the same emulator, the same > >rom - the only difference was that I used English Windows. My conclusion was > >that the emulator probably relies on some Windows services (maybe fonts) > >that are available on Japanese systems only. I suppose that you refer to the > >same thing. > > I'm guessing that the strings you're referring to are being displayed > in a dialog by POSE - for example, if it's a fatal alert that POSE > has intercepted. In that case, yes, the OS needs to have Japanese > support installed. > > What this means varies by platform/version. In Mac OS 9 and earlier, > you had to install the appropriate language kit. In Mac OS X, you > have the option of installing the required fonts when you install the > OS - it's not a separate product/package. On Windows 2000/XP I > believe you only need to have an appropriate Japanese font installed, > but I haven't had to do much configuration here - it's just worked > for me in the past. > > One final note is that POSE has to do some special processing to pick > the correct font to use when displaying text that comes from the ROM. > It could be that this is broken in the Clie emulator. > > -- Ken > -- > Ken Krugler > TransPac Software, Inc. > <http://www.transpac.com> > +1 530-470-9200 > > -- > For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
