Its not so much the editting by hand thats the problem, its the effort in doing so.
Im an embedded programmer normally, so im used to having string lookup tables (2 dimensional arrays, index by language and string id). These are really simple to edit by hand, so much so that none programmers can take an string table containing English, and fill in the blanks for other languages. Thus making it a fairly none skilled job, and taking large maintainance issues of my hands. Ive been looking at Multilizer, and this seems to be what I want, although considerably over the top, as I dont need multi platform support, or translations (as we do that ourselfs). The problem is convincing the boss that we want to spend that much. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Krugler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 June 2002 02:22 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Overlay Manager >I have a couple of problems with overlays. > >1. I use OmGetCurrentLocale (&local); to get the country and language (on >POSE) how ever the country part does not seem to work, I always get 23 >(language code 0) when using a OS4.1 English Debug Rom even when i change >country setting (from welcome screen) from USA to UK, Mexico etc. Also when >using OS4.1 EFIGS Debug ROM set to french, I always get country code 8 >(language code 2), regardless of the country I set. This seems to be wrong >to me unless Im missing something. As Kevin noted, changing the formats locale w/the Formats panel or the Welcome app doesn't change the current locale. The Language Picker app (which is run following a hard reset, if you've got a multi-lingual EFIGS ROM) is how you can change the system (and thus current) locale. >2. Seconds problem is, when I create overlays, how do I add the foriegn text >to them. Ive spent a day trying to work it out. Surely I dont have the edit >the overlay PRC by hand ??? If you didn't edit it by hand (for translation & layout, I assume), then how would you localize the resource data? -- Ken -- Ken Krugler TransPac Software, Inc. <http://www.transpac.com> +1 530-470-9200 -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
