My app has no requirement for foriegn text input. I dont care what language they are running the palm in (i want them to select in my app). The app is basically a graphical display which (via a custom radio link) shows graphical data from our cable location devices. The user input is very minimal, basically a few menus and buttons. Generally they are just looking at the graphics. Im very temped to use multilizer, as the demo seems very good to me, although I will end up with different apps for different languages. (and its expensive). The main objective is to have a low maintainance system, which doesent really seem the case for all the other methods.
I think Palm needs to come up with a better solution. If I manage to find the time, I will write a tool to do it. Im sure it will make me a rich man ! Rik -----Original Message----- From: Ken Krugler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 February 2003 15:21 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Coverting CW app to Multi Language >If you can relax the single file issue, you could use a solution like >this: > >http://www.hhcenterprise.com/Developer/Issue3/PalmOS_Foreign.htm > >It's a plugin. At the start of your program it loads its resources, and >then checks to see if there's another resource file that fits the bill. >If there is, it loads that resource file and uses those resources rather >than the originals. And if you're not worried about the total size of your program in RAM, then you could include the individual PRCs in your app as resources that get turned into PRCs (perhaps only when needed) via DmCreateDatabaseFromImage. >It would have minimal impact on your program's code, and it would allow >you to customise for at least the EFIGS languages anyway. Not sure what >to do in the case of Dutch, though. Dutch should be OK, though the OS isn't going to provide exactly what you'd want for sorting. Not that this is an issue for the UI, but if the user is running the app in "Dutch mode" and entering Dutch text, then they might expect other aspects of the program's behavior (such as sorting) to also be localized. -- 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/
