Re: multiple language support: dialog-boxes

From:
mfc <mfcprog@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:12:55 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<5d978bf6-5ebc-4963-8d52-3b4905e9178e@u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>
On 19 Jun., 16:20, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

See below...

On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:56:30 -0700 (PDT), mfc <mfcp...@googlemail.com> wr=

ote:

The whole application is a sdi application with the doc/view modell;
therefore I`m loading a dialog at the startup with e.g. buttons etc.

CMLSampleView::CMLSampleView()
   : CFormView(CMLSampleView::IDD)
{
   // TODO: add construction code here

}

IDD is the id from the dialog box, generated by the resoure editor.
I`ve copied this dialog box to the other projects (satellite dlls for
German and for English); Maybe this approach is wrong....


****
No, it looks fine. Key here is that you have to switch languages in th=

e InitInstance

handler.
****

In the end, when the programm is started, the user should see a sdi
window app where he can switch to different languages by some
cbuttons. There will be no menu in the end application.


****
Switching the resource which is the SDI CFormView is much harder. What=

 you have to do is

create a new CFormView using the new dialog template, attach it to the do=

cument, and

destroy the original CFormView. Note that you should use UpdateAllView=

s with a nonzero

lHint to tell any existing view to store its control contents in the docu=

ment, and upon

completion, use UpdateAllViews with a different nonzero lHint to tell the=

 form to retrieve

any existing data from the document and put it into the current view. =

Otherwise, if you

switch views with information in the controls, the information would be l=

ost.

See the MSDN example on how to switch views of an SDI app.
                                joe


That means every dialog box (having the same content but for a
different language) has its own id (id for the main-dialog in English !
= id for the main-dialog in German)? Moreover you will need a
different CFormView-Class for every language and for every dialogbox?
Ok it doesn`t matter how many classes a project will include...

All the stuff to change the view is correct placed in the mainframe
class?

CRuntimeClass* pNewViewRTClass;
CView *pOldView;
pOldView = GetActiveView();

// load the specific view to be the current view (only a demo-example
with one view)
pNewViewRTClass = RUNTIME_CLASS(CMLSampleView);

if(m_pCFirstView == NULL)
{
     m_pCFirstView = STATIC_DOWNCAST(CView, pNewViewRTClass-

CreateObject());

    m_pCFirstView->Create(NULL,NULL,AFX_WS_DEFAULT_VIEW,rectDefault,
this,AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST+1,NULL);

    m_pCFirstView->OnInitialUpdate();
}

m_pNewView = m_pCFirstView;

int nChildId = m_pNewView->GetDlgCtrlID();
m_pNewView->SetDlgCtrlID(AFX_IDW_PANE_FIRST);
pOldView->SetDlgCtrlID(nChildId);

CDocument *pDoc = pOldView->GetDocument();

pDoc->AddView(m_pNewView);
pDoc->RemoveView(pOldView);

pDoc->m_bAutoDelete = FALSE;

SetActiveView(m_pNewView);
RecalcLayout();
m_pNewView->ShowWindow(SW_SHOW);
pOldView->ShowWindow(SW_HIDE);

Or is it better to Destroy the old window?

pDoc->UpdateAllViews(NULL); will only call the active view in a sdi
application where only one view could be availabe at the same time....
But all the stuff (information in the controls; e.g. checkbox is
checked or not) have to be stored and loaded to the new view.... where
is the best place to do this step by step in the above code?

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