Hi, I am currently developping an application that should support multiple languages and would like to submit some thoughts.
I need the language to be selected by the user. So I wonder wether the overlay manager supports that the language be input separately than the locale returned by FtrGet sothat multiple languages be available on the same device. Also, would the PalmOSGlue lib allow this to be backward compatible up to OS3.0? My resources consist in strings, int, float and date types combined in C structs. Do i need to create a custom resource type to read it from memory, or should I rely on existing types (eg tSTR)? As I assume I only will have to localize the strings another question is: can a single resource be read partly from the base database (say the int, float, etc) and partly from an overlay database (the strings) or do I need to read them separately and combine them in a single C struct? I recently bought a Palm Vx in the US. It has OS3.5, but doesn't appear to have its basic applications localized. A hard reset doesn't allow to choose from different user languages. Is there any particular interaction between the localization feature and the place of sail? Finally, would the pilrc & prc2ovl applications allow to build such a PDB resource file, or what other application do you recommend? thanks for your thoughts, Massimo -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
