sure... that makes sense... 100%
but, i guess, to me thats the LEAST of my worries. things i care about here: 1. small footprint in memory 2. easy access to display on pages 3. easy addition of languages so that if i wanted to add mandarin chinese, i could 4. thats about it... im nearly positive that some sort of way to add elements through an easy to use interface would be the way to go... damn right... but in this early stage of my app, getting it to work was step one, refinement takes place later. and fwiw, our business model, and available maps for navtrak (www.navtrak.net) limit us to north america (spanish, english, french) with english and spanish being the predominant requests from clients. thats all ... off to the mexican restaurant, for some (shit i cant remember the label number) drinks :) On 4/21/05, Matt Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I can hop in here...Not that I know anything more about this than > Paul... Far from it, but... > > I did a CF-based language file swapper-thing (not xml. just > name/value pair text files that get read into structs which contain > all screen output text). Its easy to have the mechanism to do the > language swapping. The problem is maintaining the various languages. > Lets say you have support for 10 languages. You add an 'Are You > Sure?' dialog to an existing element. You have to go in and make all > of your language files reflect this addition. Life sucks very quickly > trying to maintain that over, lets say, the course of a major version > update. > > What Paul is talking about, I think, is using or building something > that at least partially automates and regulates this task. I built a > translation system that holds everything in a db and presents a > web-based interface. If one term is added it gets added to all sets. > The view for each term is shown in all languages. You publish all > language sets in an admin procedure and if something is missing a > term, red flags pop up on screen. I'm sure it can be done better. > Just what I cam up with to deal with it. > > -- > --mattRobertson-- > Janitor, MSB Web Systems > mysecretbase.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:203916 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
