Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-21 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 11:59 PM -0800 1/20/2002, Klaus wrote: i can just give some general hints on how to create multilingual projects. A good way is to store all the strings in text-files and reading them in e.g. after the user chose his favoutie language. Easier I think to create a custom property set for each

Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Hi all, Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Creating two (or more) separate stacks gives a lot of extra work; especially during development. I was thinking about some kind of a language-preference that gives all the buttons another label and give some fields another

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Rob Cozens
Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Hi Terry, Here is how I handle them: * Dates, times, and numbers are are stored unformatted in a database and are formated when displayed according to Mac OS Control Panel specifications. * Data labels and other on-screen literal

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Terry Vogelaar wrote: Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? I don't know if they're bright ideas, but here's what we did. We used a single stack to display content, with all text content, button labels, alerts, etc stored in external text files. All the files

Re: Multilingual interface

2002-01-19 Thread Rob Cozens
Who has bright ideas on how to handle multilingual projects? Terry, et al: You should also take a look at Revolution's Profile Manager Tutorial. From page 2: ...you can use the Profile Manager to create multiple language versions of your application,... I have not looked further into this