Internationalization - multi-lingual

[StellaIndigo]

Hi

I am writing an app this will be used in several countries and I want to provide the user with messages etc. in their native language.

I was looking at having an xml file with all my text for each supported language then when the app launches I load the text for the appriopriate language. i.e.

<language>EN</language>
<object>MainWindow</object>
<text>My message in English</text>
<language>DE</language>
<object>MainWindow</object>
<text>Meine... etc.

Anyone done this before or got any experience with this kind of internationalization? Good idea or not?



Regards
Stella

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[donvittorio]

Stella,

the Teach Yourself Delphi 4 in 21 Days talks about exactly this problem, i.e. providing messages in different languages, and it recommends that you use resource dlls.
It gives the following snippets of example code:

var
  DLLName: string;
begin
  case Language of
    laFrench: DLLName := 'french.dll';
    laGerman: DLLName := 'german.dll';
    laSpanish: DLLName := 'spanish.dll';
    laEnglish: DLLName := 'english.dll';
  end;
  DLLInstance := LoadLibrary(PChar(DLLName));
end;

and

LoadString(DLLInstance, MY_MESSAGE, Buff, SizeOf(Buff));

Where MY_MESSAGE is the id number of the resource to load. To create a resource dll, create a new dll and add the line

{$R RESOURC.RES}

Obviously these bits of code don't comprise a full listing of the code you would need, but I don't want to go into creating resources and loading dlls, because you might well know more about it than me. Hope this helps in some way!

Steve

 

[Gigatech]

Hi Stella,

go to

http://www.sicomponents.com/tsilang1.htm

easier is impossible !!