I don't know about centralizing resource files, but as I mentioned
modification in resource files need recompilation of the application
itself... That's already lot of work with the number of exes you have
So far how are you using your messages?
ShowMessage('hello');
ShowMessage(cHello); // cHello being a constant cHello = 'Hello'
Whatever your new method will be you have to modify your messages at
least one right?
Vahan
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
Of kannan swamy
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [delphi-en] resource files
Yes. DLL is a good idea but the problem is that i need
to change each and every showmessage like calling a
dll function from showmessage. Our aim was to avoid
this laborious work.we had lot of tools to carry out
the operations but centralising the resource files was
not available. Are there any specific compiler
directives so that we can instruct the strings to go
into a particular resource file?.To my knowledge DLL
may be the solution but i want to explore further. If
u have any solutions pls let me know.
Krishna
--- Vahan Yoghoudjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what about a dll?
>
> Resource files means that they have to be
> compiled with your exe,
> everytime you change something in the resource file
> you have to recompile
> all the 700 exes, the only advantage is that you
> will be working on one file
> and not dig into 700+ files.
>
> I'm not sure how to do, but by having those in a
> dll you can only modify
> the dll and update it to the client site to work
> with the same exe that was
> already installed without any further modifications.
>
> Vahan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> Of kannan swamy
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 3:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [delphi-en] resource files
>
>
> Hi,
> I have some problems with resource file. I want to
> store all the error and show messages in a resource
> file. I have more than 700 Exes,bpls and dlls and
> want
> to have a single resource file which can be shared.
> I
> extracted all the showmessage strings and converted
> into resourcestrings. Once the exe or bpl is
> compiled
> all the resourcestrings goes into the resourcefile.
> For an instance
>
> Showmessage('sample')
> With a tool i transformed sample to a resource
> string
> like
>
> resourcestring
> SSample ='sample';(this goes into a resourcestring)
>
> showmessage(ssample)(this code changes automatically
> by the tool)
> the advantage is in that i don't have to explicitly
> change in all showmessages. If i change the string
> in
> the resource file the changes are reflected
> automatically in the exe without recompiling it. But
> the problem is i want to have a single resource file
> which can be shared by all the exes and bpls. I
> tried
> using loadstr(integer value)in each and every
> showmessage but that is time consuming. I want a
> solution where i can have a single resource file to
> be
> shared by all exes and not explicitly go and change
> the showmessages. I tried with the following
> options.
> One more thing when u recompile the application all
> the resourcestrings will be rebuilt and values in
> the
> sourcecode goes into the resource files.
>
> Delphi resource wizard dll.
> localizer tools ,model maker.
>
> thanks
> Krishna
>
>
>
>
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