Language

[Marc from D]

OK,
I have two recources, german and english in one *.rc file. The application chooses depending on the windows version, which languge to take. But now I want to test my changed english texts on my german windows? What do I need to do?

Thanks!

Marc

[IndikaNiva]

The most common way of doing this is compile the 2 resources in to 2 dlls. and use AfxSetResourceHandle to set your language specific resource.

[ccode]
HINSTANCE hCurInstanceRes = LoadLibrary("yourGermanResource.dll");

if(m_hCurInstanceRes)
{
// Set as resource library
AfxSetResourceHandle(m_hCurInstanceRes);
}
[/ccode]

[alpha137]

Another solution is to call SetThreadLocale at application startup (for example in InitInstance).
This function sets the locale of your application / main thread to the language of your choice and causes MFC to use the corresponding resource block.

For example you can have a command line parameter to specify the language, parse the parameter in InitInstance and call SetThreadLocale with the corresponding LCID.

[Marc from D]

Thanks!
I tried alpha137's way and made a working test-program under win2k. I took this way because it seems to be the easiest way for my in the moment: I do not need to create a DLL.
Currently I'm trying to implement this into my major projecton my win98-pc, but I think I'll need some more time.

Thanks to both of you!


Marc

[Marc from D]

Hi together!

The SetThreadLocale() works - as Microsft says in MSDN- only on win 2000´and XP. It works at least not under win98.

Do you have another idea?

thanks!
Marc

[Yves M]

You could try to change the default System Locale on Win98, but I'm not sure how to do that... :/

The better way is really to have resource-only DLL's for the different languages like IndikaNiva suggested.