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I have all strings in a mySQL table and then use a Perl script to create .rc files for the different languages.
I can than add one of those .rc files to my resource includes for a particular language.
My problem now is that I want a single exe without satellite DLLs for the different languages. That doesn't seem to be possible, because each string id can only be in one string table and it is also not possible to select a particular string table.
My idea now was to add XML files with the strings to my resources and to overload LoadString. But I'm not sure if that also works with unicows on Win9x?
Are there any other options to support multiple languages from a single exe?
Thanks André
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One possibility is to use ranges. Thus, all English strings could zero based, all of language 2 could start at 10,000; language 3, 20,000 and so forth. This is limiting, but can be done.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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Joe Woodbury wrote: One possibility is to use ranges.
Unfortunately that doesn't work, at least not without a custom LoadString function. LoadString looks in the table for an id (number) and then copies the string from the table to the buffer. Therefore it would always load the string of the language without an offset.
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ABuenger wrote: at least not without a custom LoadString function.
That goes without saying.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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Joe Woodbury wrote: That goes without saying.
extern "C"<br />
{<br />
int WINAPI LoadStringW (HINSTANCE hInstance, UINT uID, LPWSTR lpBuffer, int nBufferMax)<br />
{<br />
return 0;<br />
}<br />
};
Results in a warning C4273: 'LoadStringW' : inconsistent dll linkage. dllexport assumed.
And my own function never gets called 
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I wouldn't overload LoadString directly. Rather I'd add a function like MyLoadString which would have smarts about what the current language is and all that. The advantage of this is that it could account for language neutral strings and whether satellite DLLs are used or not--in other words, the rest of your code wouldn't care where the strings are or how they are organized. For CString, you could have an overloaded version of MyLoadString that took a reference to a CString object and the ID (or you could always return a CString--there are many possibilities.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I wouldn't overload LoadString directly. Rather I'd add a function like MyLoadString which would have smarts about what the current language is and all that.
That doesn't work, MFC as well as the UI toolkit calls LoadString for menus/toolbars
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There is an article on CP somewhere that discusses this problem exactly. I'm having trouble finding it at the moment, but from what I remember about the article, each DLL was basically nothing more than a resource holder (specifically for string tables in different languages). The author added a menu item allowing the user to change the default language and the next time the program was run, it would load the dll for that language instead. If you do a little searching around CP, you can probably find it.
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
Zac
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Thanks, but as already said I don't want to use satellite DLLs, I prefer to have a single exe to distribute.
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Then your only hope is to put every language you want to support into your string table use an offset when loading strings. That is, every call to LoadString would look something like this:
CString str("");<br />
str.LoadString(IDS_MYSTRING + (iCurrentLanguage * ms_Offset));
This isn't very flexible since you have to make sure that a given string is offset exactly for each language.
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
Zac
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hello again 
I have added new item in string table of my project :
IDS_SOMETHING "SomeText"
How to retrieve the string value of the IDS_SOMETHING in my project ?
thank you
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Look at CString::LoadString
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Hello
Can anybody explain what is a source control ? why is it useful ? and where can I download one.
thank you.
-- modified at 11:34 Tuesday 27th June, 2006
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big_denny_200 wrote: what is a source control ?
It's a source files mamangement system.
big_denny_200 wrote: why is it useful ?
It manages source files:
1) Providing repository
2) Coordinating development in a team environment
3) Easying source code backup
4) Automating release configuration
5) etc.
big_denny_200 wrote: where can I download one
For Windows, Visual Studio Enterprise Edition provides "Visual Safe Source" tool. For free downloads, google "cvs for windows". For Linux, check out GNU websites for GNU CVS.
Best,
Jun
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Try having a look at the first few chapters of Version Control with
Subversion[^], which talks about the Subversion[^] product.
Subversion is a pretty nice SCM/RCS product, BTW...
Peace!
-=- James
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I am writing an expression evaluator, so I have come across the following head-scratcher:
We all know that for every type in the C++ world, we are able to declare either an actual instance of that type, or a pointer to that type. C++ natively supports up to two levels of indirection, if I am correct.
So, is the level of indirection an attribute of the type, or an attribute of the symbol that represents the instance of the type?
In other words, are there three different native types called:
char
pointer-to-char
pointer-to-pointer-to-char
OR is there really only one type
char
and the level of indirection is an attribute that belongs to the specific symbol being declared?
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you can have as many levels of indirection as you want.
char *************** p = NULL; is perfectly valid.
Richie308 wrote: the level of indirection is an attribute that belongs to the specific symbol being declared
i believe this is correct.
Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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Chris Losinger wrote: char *************** p = NULL; is perfectly valid.
Wow, I think you're right. I tried it, and it compiled without error!
This really answers my question, thank you Chris.
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Chris Losinger wrote: you can have as many levels of indirection as you want.
char *************** p = NULL; is perfectly valid.
Its been a while, but I believe this is actually limited to something like 17 levels (not that you would ever need that many). I'd have to look it up myself, but I remember that the dimensions of arrays are limited to 17 (or somewhere around there) ... I believe pointer levels are as well.
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
Zac
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Zac Howland wrote: something like 17 levels
just the thought makes me giggle.
char *****************p = NULL;
p = new char****************[n];
p[0] = new char***************[n];
p[0][0] = new char**************[n];
p[0][0][0] = new char*************[n];
p[0][0][0][0] = new char************[n];
p[0][0][0][0][0] = new char***********[n];
...
Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker
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You laugh ... but sadly, I've seen people try to make 20-dimensional arrays and wonder why they get compiler errors ... not to mention logic errors :P
If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week
Zac
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