Resource files

[Leif Eirik Olsen]

Hi,

Feeling a bit lost here reading helpfiles and googling
'All' I want is a resource file containing text translations (of button,
label captions) to another language than english. This resource will be read
(and assigned) during start of my application and the file must be editable
by enduser, without me having to do any recompilation.

any suggestions?

regards,
Leo

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Well, there's not really such a thing as a run-time resource file. Usually,
with unmanaged code, you'd do this with a resource DLL, where the DLL
contains no code, but has the string table, dialog definitions, etc. Since
dialog definitions aren't really used in .NET CF, there's less help there.

Since one of your requirements is the ability for the end user to edit it,
you're going to have to do something proprietary. You could define a file
layout using XML or you could just use plain text files where you define a
value, then a string or something of that nature:

1234,"Here's the text which the user can translate himself."

Your program would then have to parse the file on startup, or whenever, and
store the strings somewhere.

Paul T.

 

[Leif Eirik Olsen]

Since one of your requirements is the ability for the end user to edit it,
you're going to have to do something proprietary. You could define a file
layout using XML or you could just use plain text files where you define a
value, then a string or something of that nature:

1234,"Here's the text which the user can translate himself."

Thanks Paul for making this clear.

I think I'll go with a plain text file for now.

regards,
Leo