Nice, but I suggest to add also a revision number, because a file can change more times in a single day. So not only add a date, but also a revision number of that date. eg:
;Version 3.01.94 5/6/2004 rev1
The top comment line shouldn't be removed when it is send to Patchou. That defeats the purpose of putting it there in the first place. Like I previously said, translators are allowed to put 4 comment lines there.
Though, what you must delete are all the original english comments before each topic and keys. Remove this to reduce the filesize; this is asked in
TranslationGuidelines.doc:
quote:
from TranslationGuidelines.doc
The only components you have to translate are the values. Sections and Keys must stay unchanged as they are known by Messenger Plus!. Comments are here to help you understand some parts of the file. When you don’t need them anymore, please, remove them so that the final file doesn’t contain useless data.
So, I took the liberty to fix this and also to remove some other left-overs of the previous translation. I did not alter anything to the translation itself. (I also didn't checked the translation for other technical errors, didn't had time yet)
Advanced checking of length:
The length of the strings in the setup and errormessages and all, can be check by using ResHack. To check this you need to open
MsgPlus.exe and/or
MsgPlusH.dll and edit the appropiate dialog-texts and compile the result. Or right-click on a control and edit it's caption...
Note that you must be realy careful not to overwite the original DLL and EXE, so make a backup first. Also, this is a very painstaking and "advanced" way of checking your translation. But in this way you can check almost every possible dialog.
You can check the setup screens in similar way, but you need to extract the
MPlus3_Setup.exe first. Do this by starting up the Plus! download file and don't do anything else (so, leave it at the first screen). The MPlus3_Setup.exe is extracted to your
temporary windows folder (mostly c:\windows\temp). Note that the translations are also there as
m3pQc??-files and you can overwrite some translation with your Greek one and check the setup screens in realtime.
more about this here:
http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=26798
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