[AccessD] Developing European Applications

Paul:

After ending up with 5 versions of a DOS-based system to support - one for
each language - I made the Access version multi-language in the rewrite.  I
have two tables - one for controls (basically labels and command button
captions), the other for message boxes.  To add a language, I just add a
column to each table and send the tables to whoever is doing the
translation. The biggest problems I ran into was with the Unicode stuff -
like the simplified and traditional Chinese.  

I ended up with a few translation routines in a module - there are some
tricky differences translating controls on reports versus forms and sub
versus main.  I translate everything in the op open event and there's no
apparent lag except sometimes with the Chinese on a slower system.

HTH

Rocky





 	
	

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To all,

We have a visual basic 6.0 FE, connecting to a SQL Server 2000 database
which all works perfectly well.  However we are moving towards putting our
Belgium & Netherlands offices onto the system.  What I need to know is how
to make my labels/controls/reports etc appear in the local languages, I
would assume this is no easy task but if someone could point me in the right
direction I would be very grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.



Paul Hartland
paul.hartland at fsmail.net
07730 523179
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