At 7:29am -0700 00-10-17, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: Creating overlay and localizing
>From: "Daniel Gutierrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:18:07 +0200
>X-Message-Number: 3
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>Does anyone have any experience about "overlaying"? (This technique is used
>to localise PCR files without having to re-compile it.)
>
>I'd like to know:
>How an overlay file could be created - manually or programmatically; if a
>program is necessary, where it could be found.
Programmatically, since it needs to contain an 'ovly' resource which
has information about the base PRC.
PRC2OVL is the tool to use; it's available as part of the 3.5 SDK, I believe.
>If the file needs to have a special name or a special extention
PRC2OVL takes care of this for you, but...
1. The DB header name must be the same as the base PRC name, plus a
locale-specific extension of the form "_<ll><CC>", such as "_frFR"
for French in France and "_enUS" for English in the US. So a Japanese
overlay for the Memo app would have its name set to "Memo_jpJP".
2. The DB type must be 'ovly'.
3. The DB creator must match the base PRC creator.
>Where this file needs to be put, probably next to the original PCR file
I'm not sure what you mean by this. PRC overlay files exist on the
desktop, and are the same as any other Palm OS DB that's in file
format.
PRC databases are what you find on the device. The overlay DB must be
on the same card as the base PRC, which means you can't have the base
PRC on your device and the overlay on a Springboard module.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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