SYSTEM MESSAGES IN GERMAN 1

[Ildegardo]

I’m facing a strange behaviour on my VFP9 – SP2.
When testing my projects (on the VFP environment) and programmatically calling, as an example, the function DISPLAY STATUS TO FILE "myfile", I get a file based on the English language.
When I build the EXE from the same project, the function DISPLAY STATUS TO FILE "myfile" outputs a file based on the German language.
Basically all system messages when working on the VFP basic environment are English. When working EXE a lot of them (not really all!) switch into German.
Which is the reason for that? How can I recover, having always English used.
Thank you in advance.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Ildegardo,

The choice of language for these internal messages depends on the so-called locale-specific resource fle that is installed. These are files with names like VFP9RENU.DLL (which is English) and VFP9RDEU.DLL (which might be German).

This only applies when applications are run from an executable, which explains why you didn't see a problem when running in the development environment.

To decide which resource file to use, VFP checks a registry entry. You can programmatically change that entry to point to a different file. Or, you can specify the file by means of command-line switches when you launch your app.

For details of both methods, see the VFP 9 Help topic, "Managing Files in an International Application".

Hope this helps.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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