At 12:02am -0800 00-12-15, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: Localization, overlays, and stripped files...
>From: "Janet Geddes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:51:08 -0500
>X-Message-Number: 32
>
>Hello,
> I, too, am unable to get palm localization working through overlays.
>I use codewarrior 6 and PRC2OVL for Palm OS 3.5 to build the app and
>overlay as follows:
>1. Create app.prc that reads strings from a resource file, using
>DmGetResource(), and writes them to the memo pad.
>2. Incorporate english-language string resources in app.prc, and install
>the resulting app.prc in POSE running a french 3.5 rom.
>3. Modify the string resources in app.prc to french to create a version to
>use with PRC2OVL. (Since I'm using the original app, things like the
>creator ID should be the same - presumably PRC2OVL takes care of 'ovly' and
>establishing the overlay as belonging to the frFR locale).
>4. Use PRC2OVL app.prc -local frFR -o app_frFR.prc to create a french
>overlay, and install the app_frFR.prc in POSE.
The problem is that the overlay being generated at this step contains
checksums in the 'ovly' resource that are based on the French
translated resources in your base PRC. So when you try to use this
overlay with the English base, the checksums don't match what's in
the English PRC.
You need to use PRC2OVL to extract an overlay from the _English_
version of the PRC, then use either the version of Constructor that
edits PRCs (released on CD at PalmSource) or RsrcEdit (Palm app
resource editor) to translate the overlay into French.
I don't have the tools documents in front of me, but I'm hoping the
PRC2OVL manual says something about this sequence being the
recommended way to create a localized overlay.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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