Foreign language translations on the fly in VB6

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Jennifer Ward - 30 Jan 2008 18:11 GMT

Hi,

For a recent large project I developed a way to translate screen and message
text on the fly using from/to text files that contain the English/foreign
translations. It works very well and lets me maintain only one version of
the project code that can handle several languages.

I was wondering how unique this might be and if so, where might I 'publish'
this infomation ? I'm always asking for help and thought this might be a
good thing to give back to the VB community.

Any opinions ?

Thanks.

JW

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PeterD - 30 Jan 2008 18:58 GMT

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Multi-language resource files may work better...

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Robert Morley - 30 Jan 2008 20:06 GMT

It's not a unique method of doing things, by any means, but your specific
implementation might use interesting new methods of doing things, so it's
always worth a shot.

First off, you can always simply post your code to newsgroups. Probably a
better place would be somewhere like VBnet (http://vbnet.mvps.org), although
I believe they only accept code from people who actually are (or at least
were at some point) MVPs.

If you google for "VB6 code samples" or similar search terms, you'll come up
with a number of other places. I've used and/or looked at code from some of
them in the past, though beyond VBnet, I can't really say whether any of
them are particularly better known than any others.

PS, don't let the name "VBnet" fool you...it predates VB.Net by many years,
and has absolutely *nothing* to do with VB.Net.

Rob

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Foreign language translations on the fly in VB6