Hi Gil,
>I am not a real programmer but managed to change menu's etc. through the new
>constructor and the RsrcEdit app. I will be able to hack the system can I
>use PRC2OVR in with the current enUS overlay in order to get a working file
>I can overlay? should I do it before or after I edit the original file?
It sounds like you want to (a) clone an existing enUS overlay that's
in the ROM, (b) change the target locale for this overlay to
something else, and (c) edit this with either RsrcEdit or the new
version of Constructor.
There's probably some easy way to do (a) using a 3rd party tool, I
just don't know about it. (b) is harder - as far as I know, there
isn't any way to easily do this; I wind up modifying the file with a
hex editor on the desktop. (c) is no problem.
>Do you know of any app that can hack the system?
Not sure what you mean by this. If you're looking for Hebrew systems,
search on one of the major Palm software sites.
>what about making a new
>enUS overlay that will be installed in the RAM will that work?
On 4.0 ROMs, overlays in RAM will always be used in place of overlays
in ROM. On 3.5, this wasn't the case (OK, it was a bug) - ROM was
always used.
-- Ken
>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 Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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