Frédéric Delanoy wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 13:20, Michael Stefaniuc <mstef...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Ideally wrc should be able to >> calculate the needed resource size too; though no clue how much effort >> that would be. >> >> michael > > Well auto-calculating resource size might be no problematic: think > - multi-line strings might need to be split at different places > - sometimes other dialog elements may have to be moved as well (Fr > sentences are generally somewhat/much longer than En equivalents for > instance) Automatic resource size calculation doesn't precludes adding the possibility of a manual override.
> Additionally, tools like ResHacker (to easily visually alter > size/strings/...) might be unusable without some sort of preprocessing > if all resources are migrated to a po file. ResHacker will work like always. wrc will still generate .res files; ideally barring any fixes the SHA1 of the generated res files will be the same before and after the move to PO files. bye michael