I have created a VB6.0 database application for WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature not World Wrestling Federation!). The program is used to record assessments of management effectiveness in Protected Areas. It is designed to run in 5 languages, English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. All of the strings are stored in a separate table in the Access database and whenever a form is loaded strings are allocated to controls depending on the number allocated to the control tag and depending on the language chosen for that session. To do the reporting I am using Data Dynamics Active Reports. The idea is that the Russians (or whoever) can capture their results in their own language and somebody on the other side of the world can view the results in another language.
So far I have not tried the Chinese option as I do not yet have their translations of the strings. The Russian option works perfectly on all forms when I am using an Access 97 database. All of the textboxes, labels, etc change to Cyrillic on demand and all of the Title Bars, Message boxes and Tolltips are also working. However DataGirds and Active Reports do not show the Russian text, they just show garbage. But if I click on a cell in the DataGrid, suddenly the Russian text is there and when the cell loses focus, the Russian text disappears again. My next trick was to try to convert the database to Access 2000. The result: Active reports and the DataGrid could display Russian text, but neither the forms, nor the tooltips, title bars and message boxes could. My gut feeling is that I should stick with the Access 2000 version and try to convert the strings within VB as I have more control over the VB forms than over the Active Reports. I have been told that I should try the Forms 2.0 library, but that would only solve part of my problem, as it would not sort out the Title Bars, etc. I have been fighting with this problem for 3 months and am getting quite desperate as I am way over my deadline. Anybody have any ideas? Barry James Barry and Danielle James Brousse-James & Associates Ecological and Environmental Services PO Box 13885, Cascades, 3202 Ph +27(0)33-3470322 Fx +27(0)33-3470323 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
