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Implementing multi-lingual user interface

• Posted by Peter Willems <peter at integratedmoves.com> Jul 16, 2003
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Hi there,

   I'm only just getting my feet wet with Eu but have already found
   some great things. One thing I would like to mention for those
   interested:

   In my company we currently use a IDE called WinDev. One of it's
   nice features is the ability to implement multi-lingual user
   interface. You can simply input all wanted translations for every
   control, menu-option, etc.

   As I'm seriously thinking about switching to Eu over a certain
   period (and for several reasons) I'm evaluating how to do certain
   things in Eu that I can currently do very easy with WinDev.
   I found out that creating a multi-lingual interface in Eu is VERY
   simple (I only post the control-specific code here, I use
   Win32lib):

---
   atom language_number  -- atom to hold the active language
   sequence button_text  -- sequence to hold all the translations
      
   language_nuber = 1    -- set to english, 2 will switch to dutch
   button_text = {english-txt, dutch-text} -- translations for button

   constant PushButton1 = createEx(PushButton, 
            button_text[language_number], Window, 120, 200, 150, 20)

---

   If you do this for each control, simply setting "language_number"
   will run the user interface in the wanted language.
   I'm going to extend this with a procedure that can switch languages
   at runtime. I must say that the concept of sequences is impressive.

   This trick is probably known already, but if not it might come
   handy for someone 

Hans Peter Willems