Re: Write to an Edit Control with the << operator

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:04:09 -0700
Message-ID:
<O7TWfBW8HHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Trying to exchange any language on Windows is problematic unless you have
all of the language packs installed that you need. It's always a weird user
experience to have the application (supposedly keying off locale) displaying
in one language and the operating system and MFC in another. We usually
just support languages in our applications if they are running on the
install of Windows (or IME) of the same language.

Happy birthday smiley (and all of its children the whole emoticon family)
:o)

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:t5l2e39be7qjbmo60q7go4u1lje9tek473@4ax.com...

One of the fascinating problems I hit recently was trying to localize XML!
Tags like
<app::name value="Flounder">
<app::city value="Pittsburgh">
were felt to be inappropriate. The problem was GREATLY simplified by the
fact that files
did NOT need to be exchanged between locales, but everything came from a
STRINGTABLE (and
my client will provide the translated STRINGTABLE values). But I look
forward :-( to the
day when they say "Oops! We need to exchange French and English files in
Canada..." so
I've preplanned for that a bit.

[I spent last night talking to Scott Fahlman, who just celebrated the 25th
anniversary of
the "smilely" he invented]
joe
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:47:45 -0700, "Mihai N."
<nmihai_year_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

I see a very good advantage in operator<< about the *extensibility* in
its
design.

...

  MyObject obj;
  outstream << obj; // 1

  or:

  printf( "%d %f %g %ud", obj.x, obj.y, obj.z ...) // 2

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