On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:09 PM, jerryF <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote a program for a client of mine who is Spanish, now he wants me to > rewrite the program in Spanish. Is there any easy way to do this? > Do I have to modify all of my labels by hand? -----------------------
The bad news is Yes you will have to rewrite the interfaces. The positive side is your code base should now have new functionality that you can use over the future. The leading add on for Fox has already been stated as well as someone doing it. So those are the options, spend the money to save time or roll your own. Back in late 90's we rolled our own. Every screens dbf file was scanned for labels and when found we put that reference into a new translation table of elements. We then added the translation literal table as well as the translation language table. We then added a function to each screen that updated the label display. At the time we were attempting to sell in Canada and were asked to present a French version for a limited area. This whole process took about two days to implement. We added a French text by placing "la" in front of every text string. We told the client that our crack Cajun translators ran the first pass but they could tweak it where necessary. What a long strange trip it's been. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
