Shoutbox

Hi!
I made this small program that can check translations for duplicate hotkeys (i.e. &Change and &Confirm), and inspired by Choli's great Translator I decided to make it commonwealth. I hope that some translators will make good use of it.
I wrote in it .NET since it's the new tool, and supports complex languages as well. There were some other reasons as well, but they are obsolete now
Please let me know what do you think about it.

Current version:
1.1.3 - 17.05.2004 21:00
-Added dropdown list so if a file does not display properly you can adjust encoding. I hope this will be the last bugfix release!

1.1.2 - 15.05.2004 21:30 - 37 times
-Fixed: National characters not displaying.

1.0.1 - 15.05.2004 20:00 - 8 times
-Initial release.

Known issues:
-Unlikely to run without .NET Framework (this cannot be fixed, as this is the very essence of .NET applications). Get it from Windows Update (a few megs) or standalone installer (23 megs) from Microsoft.
-Since it uses a general algorithm it will make some false positives, and also miss some mistakes. It would need some kind of "definitions file" for every Plus! version which includes structure of menus etc. It is useful for a crude testing though.

It's nice that someone has finally taken on the job of making an ampersand checker... I find it very hard to do manually.

If it's possible to make a program that checks for ampersand conflicts, wouldn't it also be possible to make a program that sets the ampersands entirely automatic?

Btw, it won't display the three Danish characters Æ/æ, Ø/ø and Å/å.

/Zred

Great, great, great!! Thanks a lot! This will save me a LOT of work! Judging from Anders', (a.k.a. ZrednaZ) letter, the programme will probably have problems with our Swedish umlauts as well: å/Å, ä/Ä and ö/Ö

Edit: Hmmm... "Could not initiate the programme correctly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the programme."

About not displaying characters: Try saving your files with Unicode encoding, then opening them with the program. I have the unicode version of your translations included with Plus! and they display fine.

Leif: Do you have .NET Framework? It is required by all .NET based programs, nothing can be done about it . It's Microsoft's official new platform featuring a hell lot of improvements. If VB6 had worked I wouldn't have used this great new technology . You can get it from Windows Update or from this link:.NET Framework 1.1 if you have a large bandwidth and wish to download the standalone installer (23 megs). The .NET comes bundled with .NET development apps, Windows Srv 2003 and some office 2003 apps.

Excellent program! however, you should add some internal exceptions for some sections (you can see what I mean by running the program on the english file, it detects some conflicts but some text in the same section can be displayed in different windows/menus that do not conflict with each other).

Thanks for this very useful tool!
Patchou

Thanks! .NET Framework and Unicode finally did it! "End of the document reached."

New version: all characters should display without messing with unicode. .NET Framework cannot be fixed, thats a feature not a bug...

Hmmm...
Version 1.1.2 Swedish (ANSI): 9 duplicate hotkeys
Version 1.1.2 Swedish (Unicode): 0 duplicate hotkeys

How come?

It might be that your your national characters look the same  in ANSI but their character codes are different so the prg doesnt consider them same. You could search to one of them and see if some characters looking the same are not found in the search. Anyway, please send me the two files to shunter@freemail.hu (i tested the app many times on my ansi hungarian also full of special characters, and it worked all right...)

I've tried to mail you my Swedish translation in ANSI and in Unicode but the letters keep bouncing back.

Here is my second letter to you (which also bounced):

"Thanks (again) for a great tool! Some minor nags, though ..
Hotkey Checker flagged these as duplicates. But I intentionally duplicated them. They appear on toggling buttons and this way I can use the SAME hotkey to Play (&Spela) and Stop (&Stoppa) the sound file. And to Play (S&pela) and Stop (Sto&ppa) the other sound file. I thought I was pretty smart there! 
PlayButtonSignin=&Spela
PlayButtonSignout=S&pela
StopButtonSignin=&Stoppa
StopButtonSignout=Sto&ppa"