Re: messabebox(...) v afxmessanebox

From:
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:10:10 +0100
Message-ID:
<OZqEj3ueIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:D2823AAE-C0B0-44A6-A86B-3AAB98EA95D2@microsoft.com...

That's a clever idea. You could use constants for the English values
(keys) as well

[...]

IDS_WELCOME 1
IDS_COUNTRY 2

[...]

Hi Tom,

the fact is that I prefer reading strings into source code (maybe others
prefer to read integer constants, but I prefer reading strings).

It is just my personal preference, and I'm aware that others also more
qualified than me can have different opinions, but I just consider more
readable in source code having:

  DoSomething( GLS("I like Oregon" );

(which by GLS() - Get Localized String - function can be translated in the
exe like e.g. italian string L"Mi piace l'Oregon"), instead of:

  DoSomething( IDS_I_LIKE_OREGON )

(and exspecially for longer strings...).

Of course, you are right when you write that a string-keyed mapping is less
efficient than just integer values; however, I think that in most cases the
difference is negligible.

G

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