Using Profiles

[Guglielmo Braguglia]

Hi to all,
sorry but ... I don't agree ...  :D :D :D

Living in Switzerland, I often need to write programs in our national 
languages (Italian French and German), plus, obviously, English and I 
have always used, not without some minor difficulties, especially with 
accented characters on different platforms, "profiles".

To solve these minor problems, where is possible, I have still used the 
"htmlText" and not the "text" ... because I see that "htmlText" is 
properly managed changing platform.  Unfortunately, not for all of the 
controls you can use "htmlText", some have only "text".

Normally I define 4 "profiles" ... prItalian, prFrench, prGerman and 
pgEnglish and, where is necessary, I set the "htmlText" of the control, 
for each one of the profiles, to the correct translation, then ... 
retrieved the user local language, I just do:

         revSetStackProfile "<<profile_name>>", "<<main_stack_name>>"

... and all appear in the correct language  :)

Unfortunately ... you can't do that for each LiveCode object ...
... e.g. I have not found a simple way of doing this for the "DataGrid 
column labels" so ... after changing "profile" I'm obliged to do also:

         set the dgProp["column labels"] ...

... for each DataGrid I have to translate the column labels ... but ok 
... Is not a big problem ;)

Hope this help,

Cordially,

Guglielmo



Mark Wieder wrote:
> Pete-
>
> Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 4:13:10 PM, you wrote:
>
>> I believe you can change any built-in property but I'm just starting to
>> learn about profiles so could be wrong.
>
> I gave up trying to figure out profiles a long time ago. They didn't
> seem to do what I seemed to think they should do. I think others have
> had more success, but more than that I can't say. I do know they're
> not for localization, but that's as far as I got.
>