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| 2 | How to Make a New Resource File for Another Language |
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| 5 | In the zip project, we use resource files to hold the |
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| 6 | error messages that can be generated. This lets us support |
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| 7 | more than 1 language without much trouble. |
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| 9 | For now, these are the languages we support. |
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| 11 | ZipMsgBR.rc - Brazilian (Portuguese) |
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| 12 | ZipMsgCT.rc - Catalan |
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| 13 | ZipMsgDK.rc - Danish |
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| 14 | ZipMsgNL.rc - Dutch |
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| 15 | ZipMsgFI.rc - Finnish |
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| 16 | ZipMsgFR.rc - French |
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| 17 | ZipMsgDE.rc - German |
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| 18 | ZipMsgHU.rc - Hungarian |
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| 19 | ZipMsgNO.rc - Norwegian |
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| 20 | ZipMsgPT.rc - Polish |
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| 21 | ZipMsgSW.rc - Swedish |
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| 22 | ZipMsgES.rc - Spanish |
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| 23 | ZipMsgS1.rc - Spanish |
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| 24 | ZipMsgSI.rc - Slovenian |
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| 25 | ZipMsgUS.rc - US / English |
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| 27 | ZipMsgCN.rc - Chinese [ GB(K) - commonly used in China and Singapore for |
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| 28 | simplified Chinese writing.] |
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| 29 | ZipMsgCZ.rc - Czech |
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| 30 | ZipMsgGR.rc - Greek |
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| 31 | ZipMsgIT.rc - Italian |
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| 32 | ZipMsgJP.rc - Japanese |
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| 33 | ZipMsgMY.rc - Malaysia |
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| 34 | ZipMsgRO.rc - Romanian |
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| 35 | ZipMsgRU.rc - Russian |
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| 36 | ZipMsgYU.rc - Serbian (Yugoslavia) |
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| 37 | ZipMsgTW.rc - Taiwanese [Big5 - commonly used in Taiwan and Hong Kong for |
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| 38 | traditional Chinese writing.] |
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| 40 | We would like YOU to help us by porting the error messages |
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| 41 | from English into another language that we don't support yet. |
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| 43 | The files ZipMsg.h holds the resource Id numbers, and ZipMsgUS.rc |
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| 44 | holds the source for the English text error messages. |
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| 46 | To make a resource file for a new language, follow these |
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| 47 | steps: |
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| 49 | 1) select a 2 letter code for your language |
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| 50 | example: "DE" for German (Deutch) |
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| 52 | 2) Create a new source file for your messages: |
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| 53 | COPY ZipMsgUS.rc ZipMsgDE.rc |
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| 55 | 3) Edit your new file - translate the text to your language |
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| 56 | NOTEPAD ZipMsgDE.RC |
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| 58 | 4) Compile your source to make a RES file: |
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| 59 | C:>brcc32 ZipMsgDE.RC |
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| 61 | 5) E-mail me your new .RC and .RES files! Tell me the full |
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| 62 | name of the new language, and your full name and e-mail address. |
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| 63 | I will refer to your name and address in the help file unless |
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| 64 | you tell me not to. |
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| 67 | Eric Engler |
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| 68 | englere@abraxis.com |