Multilingual apps (was: Re: Beginners global variable pb)

[Graham Samuel]

In my earlier mail on this I wrote:

>My own preferred option is to go for a simplified manual approach where 
>every string that needs to be changed according to language is set in one 
>particular handler ('setUpParameters'), and I simply read the Welsh (or 
>whatever) text file into a text editor and paste each line directly into 
>the Transcript code, all in one concentrated place in the app. This is 
>crude but in fact works rather well.

Of course this describes a method of changing the (human) language during 
development, not at runtime. I should have said that this can be adapted to 
a runtime method by the use of a text file and a slightly more disciplined 
setUpParameters script which can be edited on the fly. It still seems to me 
to be less labour-intensive in the long run than the Custom Props method.

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France