Hi.
It's very simple. I create a header file with an enumeration, like this:
enum LanguageMessage
{
lmApplicationExitQuestion,
lmApplicationExiting,
/*...*/
}
Each element of the enumeration indexes a message line of one or more text
files. I create a text file for each language, like English.txt, Spanish.txt,
French.txt, etc. These files contain a message per line. Examples:
English.txt:
Quit. Are you sure?
Exiting application...
Spanish.txt:
¿Salir de la aplicación?
Cerrando la aplicación...
Then I convert each text file to a different .pdb file (English.pdb,
Spanish.pdb, and so on). The .pdb has a record for each line of the source text
file. [It could be inefficient, but easy to program].
In my palm application, I build a list of "installed languages" searching for
the .pdbs (using the Creator ID and Database type fields). I let to the user
choose the language. I have an object (class in C++) named LanguageManager, it
opens the selected .pdb database y it's ready to receive requests, like "give
me the message for exiting the application in the current selected language",
like this:
const char* msg = languageManager.getMessage(lmApplicationExiting);
The LanguageManager object loads (queries) the record with index
lmApplicationExiting (it is in the enumeration), convert it to a string and
returns it.
Finally, I can program a desktop application to help the user to translate o
build an language text file and convert it to a .pdb file...
-Jeisson
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