> I was recently asked about how to make an application multilingual.
> ie. how to have the app's menubar show up in a different language,
> and have this be changeable from the menubar.
>
> Here's an example that shows a common technique, which involves
> assigning each menu item an 'internal name' the app uses internally
> for searching and internal bookkeeping, separate from the menu item's
> label() names, which can change depending on the currently selected
> language.
>
> The technique used is to make a simple little class ("ItemData)
> is used as the userdata() for each menu item, to allow more data
> to be associated with each item than just the 'this' of the app;
> it keeps track of the 'internal menu name' as well.
>
> I've added this example to my FLTK cheat sheet here:
> http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/#MultiLanguageApp
Oh yes - I like this one, that's good stuff.
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