Re: multiple language support: dialog-boxes

From:
mfc <mfcprog@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<5c53969f-1434-444f-bff4-740032382d84@w31g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
On 18 Jun., 21:55, mfc <mfcp...@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 18 Jun., 20:41, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

Why is there *any* button called "btn1". The FIRST thing you do when=

 creating controls is

change all those stupid default IDs (e.g., IDC_BUTTON1) to something me=

aningful (e.g.

IDC_ASK_USER_FOR_NAME). Only then do you start to create variables (=

which will have

meaningful names, like c_AskUserForName) and handlers (e.g., OnBnClicke=

dAsUserForName).

So already you are digging yourself into a pit of unmaintainability.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:30:36 -0700 (PDT), mfc <mfcp...@googlemail.com> =

wrote:

Hi,

I`ve a sdi application where I want to add multiple language support.
If the user press the button btn1, the language should be changed.

After the OnButtonClick-Function I`m using SendMessage to send a msg
to one function in the mainframe-class
(class CMainFrame : public CFrameWnd)

This is the function in the CMainFrame() - only a small demo:

HINSTANCE hInst = NULL;

if(!m_hInstGerman)
   m_hInstGerman = LoadLibrary(_T("LangDeu.dll"));


****
There are so many things wrong with the above code I cannot hope to lis=

t all of them.

Why is there an m_hInstGerman? Do you plan to add a variable for eac=

h of the several

hundred languages supported? Will there be an hInstItalian_Italy, hi=

nstItalian_Swiss, an

hInstSpanish_Mexican, an hInstFrench_Canadian? Of course not. One=

 local instance

variable will suffice for all possible languages and that's all you sho=

uld ever need. In

the worst case, using a simple std::map to map language abbreviations t=

o DLL handles might

be used, if you want to support the user dynamically switching language=

s. Or, you can

compute the DLL name (GetModuleFileName) and only load the DLL if the n=

ame you get is

different from the one you have (don't forget to FreeLibrary the one yo=

u are about to

replace!)

Why are you not forming the name from the user's current selected activ=

e language? Why

did you hardwire it to "LangDeu.dll"?

Do you plan to add code like the above for each of the hundreds of lang=

uages supported by

Windows?

Play with my Locale Explorer (see my MVP Tips site). It will even gener=

ate the code for

you!

From the Locale Explorer:

// LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME
CString sabbrevlangname_data;
LCID lcid = LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT;
{ /* get LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME */
 LPTSTR p = sabbrevlangname_data.GetBuffer(4);
 VERIFY(::GetLocaleInfo(lcid, LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME, p, 4));
 sabbrevlangname_data.ReleaseBuffer();} /* get LOCALE_SABBREVLANGNAME=

 */

// ... use sabbrevlangname_data here


thanks for all these information. Do you know which steps I`ve to do
to start a new dll (during running the programm)? Or is it only
possible to restart the programm to start a new dll???

All the steps which are necessary after loading the new dll file with
LoadLibrary()...- Zitierten Text ausblenden -

- Zitierten Text anzeigen -


I`ve found a good working example besides the effect that the language
didn`t change the dll on-the-fly
http://read.pudn.com/downloads83/sourcecode/chinese/319271/LanguageSupport.=
cpp__.htm

void CLanguageSupport::OnSwitchLanguage(UINT nId, bool
bLoadNewLanguageImmediately)
with bLoadNewLanguageImmediately = TRUE;

Everything seems to be ok, but it doesn`t work... maybe you know where
the problem would be?

best regards
Hans

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