On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Adriaan van Os wrote:
> FPCs resourcestring feature is a great way to localize applications, yet I > have the following questions. > > 1. The tutorial at > <http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Translations_/_i18n_/_localizations_for_programs> > gives the following example > > resourcestring > Caption1 = 'Some text'; > HelloWorld1 = 'Hello World'; > > Label1.Caption := HelloWorld1; > > Wouldn't it be simpler if resourcestrings could be defined and used directly > by the form ? That would save a lot of code of the form Labelxx.Caption := > yyy. Of course, this implies a "reload form strings" method to reload form > strings when the current language changes. > > (my apologies if this is a Lazarus question, it seems related to the compiler > also) There is a hook for this, but the question is how to identify the string you need. > > 2. Previously, when using a "GetStringFromResource" routine, I could write > something like > > for n:=1 to 100 do ComboAdd( GetStringFromResource( kComboItemOffs + > n)) > > This doesn't seem to be possible with resourcestring lists, because they use > string constants, rather then numbers. Unless, of course, we extend the > compiler to optionally attach a number or a number-constant to resourcestring > entries rather than a string constant. Plus a standard function that converts > the number into a string. This facilitates converting current applications > (that still use resource IDs) also. Any comments ? No applications use resource ID's at the moment. Changing this is not so easy; Allocating a resource ID per string is not an easy algorithm, since you don't know in advance which strings will be included in your application, and which ones are not. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
