Hi to all,
sorry but ... I don't agree ... :D :D :D
Living in Switzerland, I often need to write programs in our national
languages (Italian French and German), plus, obviously, English and I
have always used, not without some minor difficulties, especially with
accented characters on different platforms, "profiles".
To solve these minor problems, where is possible, I have still used the
"htmlText" and not the "text" ... because I see that "htmlText" is
properly managed changing platform. Unfortunately, not for all of the
controls you can use "htmlText", some have only "text".
Normally I define 4 "profiles" ... prItalian, prFrench, prGerman and
pgEnglish and, where is necessary, I set the "htmlText" of the control,
for each one of the profiles, to the correct translation, then ...
retrieved the user local language, I just do:
revSetStackProfile "<<profile_name>>", "<<main_stack_name>>"
... and all appear in the correct language :)
Unfortunately ... you can't do that for each LiveCode object ...
... e.g. I have not found a simple way of doing this for the "DataGrid
column labels" so ... after changing "profile" I'm obliged to do also:
set the dgProp["column labels"] ...
... for each DataGrid I have to translate the column labels ... but ok
... Is not a big problem ;)
Hope this help,
Cordially,
Guglielmo
Mark Wieder wrote:
Pete-
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 4:13:10 PM, you wrote:
I believe you can change any built-in property but I'm just starting to
learn about profiles so could be wrong.
I gave up trying to figure out profiles a long time ago. They didn't
seem to do what I seemed to think they should do. I think others have
had more success, but more than that I can't say. I do know they're
not for localization, but that's as far as I got.
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