[futurebasic] Re: Re: [FB] Localize Beastie

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From: Robert Covington <artlythere@...>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:29:51 -0400
>>  >>From the architecture of "Backup Beastie", the simple FB 3 project backup
>>  >>helper, I hacked (I do mean hacked) together a mutated cousin that
>>will go
>>  >>though a project, and grab from every file, anything within "quotes".
>>  >
>>  >  I might be showing my ignorance here but couldn't you dosomething with
>>  >it after it's been compiled. Isn't there an option in the compiler that
>>  >makes it put all of the strings into an STR# resource. Couldn't you then
>>  >just go through the resource translate them all and stick the new STR#
>>  >list in.
>>
>>I'd like to once again plug "multiple-language" localizations. A standard
>>feature of OS X, I've done this with FB and single resource files, as
>>follows...
>>
>>1) Don't _put_ anything in quotes in your program source! Instead, keep
>>ResEdit open to a STR# resource, and every time you start to put in
>>quoted text, put it in a comment instead, following the resource # - like
>>this:
>
>
>When you use the STR# option in FB, this is done automatically for you.


I can't open the result in ResEdit (no I can't afford Resorceror)....
message says :  " contains a value for  a ZCNT or OCNT field which is too
big, the resource probably doesn't match the template"


Robert Bob