VB6 and multi language support
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Hi, I'm currently working on a VB6 project witch has to be able to display texts in different languages(NL/US/FR/RU ect.). The problem as you all know with this is that the text end up looking like "???". To solve this i can set the regional settings in the control panel to the corresponding language. But this means that the computer has to restart every time you setup a different language. All controls also have a Charset property but if i set those to the right value(for instance 204 for using russian) it doesn't seem to have any effect. After some searching on the net i found out this is caused by the translation of unicode to ansi in the controls of VB6 (i don't know for sure that i'm using unicode). To solve this you can buy libaries that do this translation for you so the VB6 controls can't mess it up. But i have no money;) Another solution would be to use Forms 2.0 controls that are able to handle unicode. But then i cannot redistribute my software. And they also didn't work (still showing ???). After all of this it seems kind of impossible to solve this problem, but i cannot believe there isn't a solution. It does work if i set the regional settings to the right language, can't i do the same thing without using the regional settings? I really need help here. Greetz, Willem
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Could you be more specific? Witch resource file?
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Could you be more specific? Witch resource file?
my understanding is you want to give caption of control on ur forms in different languages, in vb addons there is an option to add resource file to ur project, just add resource file, in its text area add captions in different language, then programaticaly u can get captions of controls from resource file. for input text boxes you change their fonts to related language
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my understanding is you want to give caption of control on ur forms in different languages, in vb addons there is an option to add resource file to ur project, just add resource file, in its text area add captions in different language, then programaticaly u can get captions of controls from resource file. for input text boxes you change their fonts to related language
The captions of my buttons/textboxes ect. are filled from a database, I cannot convert this to the usage of resource files cause of the functionallity of the program. I already tried changing the fonts and the charset property of the fonts but that didn't work as well.
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The captions of my buttons/textboxes ect. are filled from a database, I cannot convert this to the usage of resource files cause of the functionallity of the program. I already tried changing the fonts and the charset property of the fonts but that didn't work as well.
this is the point where you are making the mistake, dont use database for captions, instead of database use resource file, please find example regarding using resource file in project, see msdn samples, there u find a sample using resource file, it is solution of ur problen coz it is also made for mulitlanguage support, if u cant file this sample i can mail u or tell u its exact name,
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this is the point where you are making the mistake, dont use database for captions, instead of database use resource file, please find example regarding using resource file in project, see msdn samples, there u find a sample using resource file, it is solution of ur problen coz it is also made for mulitlanguage support, if u cant file this sample i can mail u or tell u its exact name,
I'm sorry, but the usage of resource files is really not an option for me. The application that i'm programming makes use of a database witch is also used by a remote application where you can dynamically update the captions(like an update server). I could use the resource file as a shadow for the database but that would mean reprogramming the hole application into the usage of resource files. And making a interfase for the shadown resource files and the database itself. This simply is too much work (application source is more than 65 mb).
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I'm sorry, but the usage of resource files is really not an option for me. The application that i'm programming makes use of a database witch is also used by a remote application where you can dynamically update the captions(like an update server). I could use the resource file as a shadow for the database but that would mean reprogramming the hole application into the usage of resource files. And making a interfase for the shadown resource files and the database itself. This simply is too much work (application source is more than 65 mb).
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Thank you for your link, i've seen it before. Maybe it's me, but i cannot read a solution for my problem on this page, although the title of this webpage refers to my problem.
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Thank you for your link, i've seen it before. Maybe it's me, but i cannot read a solution for my problem on this page, although the title of this webpage refers to my problem.
That site contains controls and code that you can purchase to use in your projects...
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Hi, I'm currently working on a VB6 project witch has to be able to display texts in different languages(NL/US/FR/RU ect.). The problem as you all know with this is that the text end up looking like "???". To solve this i can set the regional settings in the control panel to the corresponding language. But this means that the computer has to restart every time you setup a different language. All controls also have a Charset property but if i set those to the right value(for instance 204 for using russian) it doesn't seem to have any effect. After some searching on the net i found out this is caused by the translation of unicode to ansi in the controls of VB6 (i don't know for sure that i'm using unicode). To solve this you can buy libaries that do this translation for you so the VB6 controls can't mess it up. But i have no money;) Another solution would be to use Forms 2.0 controls that are able to handle unicode. But then i cannot redistribute my software. And they also didn't work (still showing ???). After all of this it seems kind of impossible to solve this problem, but i cannot believe there isn't a solution. It does work if i set the regional settings to the right language, can't i do the same thing without using the regional settings? I really need help here. Greetz, Willem
I have a similar project that currently use resource string. I need to support Arabic at run time. I got the same problem with switching languages in the control panel otherwise it will display ???? Have you found your solution? Please share. I'd move to database for the string table if I have to.