At 12:03am -0800 00-12-16, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Subject: Re: Localization, overlays, and stripped files...
>From: "Gil Chapnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:50:45 +0200
>X-Message-Number: 1
>
>I tried that with the Palm's built in application in order to translate the
>built in applications- it crashed!
>
>is it possible?
As somebody else pointed out, trying to edit a PRC (for example, an
overlay) that's in ROM won't work, and could easily cause a crash
depending on the degree of robustness of the editing tool.
If you're running on a debug ROM, then it also seems like RsrcEdit
triggers a lot of fatal alerts, at least with versions 3.5 and 4.0 of
Palm OS.
>is it possible to use overlay to one language on a different language ROM?
>for instance Hebrew overlay on an English ROM?
Not without implementing Hebrew locale support in the system, or
running on top of a Palm OS hack/extension that does this for you.
The device's language would have to be set to lHebrew, and the
country to cIsrael.
-- Ken
>"Stephen Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:33223@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > in article 33197@palm-dev-forum, Janet Geddes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> > on 15/12/00 4:51 AM:
> >
> > > 1. Create app.prc that reads strings from a resource file, using
> > > DmGetResource(), and writes them to the memo pad.
> >
> > You may want to consider using the RsrcEdit utility (you'll find this on
> > PalmGear) to do the translation in-place, do a HotSync then build the
> > overlay from the modified prc. RsrcEdit will also enable you to change
> > button size/placement and see the results immediately ... it's a nifty
>tool!
> >
> > Stephen Best
> > Bitware Australia
> >
> >
> >
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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