On 16/7/01 4:39 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How many of you are getting requests for localized versions of your
>> MC/Rev-based software? How do you approach localization with a tool like
>> MetaCard where we commonly embed user feedback directly in the code (the ask
>> and answer commands for example)?
>
> I've had one. The way I handled it was to put the text translation
> string into the object as a custom property, named for the language. For
> example, for button labels, I had a property in each button named
> "English" whose value was the English text, another called "French" with
> French text, etc. Whenever I needed to display text, the script would
> check the user language (stored as a stack property) and display the
> right text label.
Or you could do this with the point and click features in Revolution's
Profile Manager ;-)
Kevin
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