Changing Languages

Does anyone knows how can i change the system current language, so that in an edit box i won't have to press Alt+Shift ? If there is someone out there, who knows an API function or whatever that can help me (and an example would be nice, too), I'd be the happiest programmer on earth.

[Gerd Mayer]

Hi,
the way to change languages is very simple (if you know how!).
The princip is to create Extension Resource - DLLs, that contain all resources in the specific language.
-> For each language one Resource DLL.
In InitInstance of your application, you have to decide which language is to set an than load your
extension DLL.
The resources in the Extension DLL must be same as in your application -
a copy of the .rc file and the resource.h is necessary -> Then you can edit all resources to translate them.

BOOL CMyApp::InitInstance()
{
//...
switch(language)
{
case GERMAN:
HINSTANCE hInst=LoadLibrary("..\\ResExample\\debug\\ResExample.dll");
AfxSetResourceHandle(hInst);
//...




To show you the whole code, will take too much, but if you want a real demo application
reply your e-mail address to mayer@csaserv.med.siemens.de
-> I'll send you a zip - file
Good luck
Gerd