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RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window
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Originally posted by ahmetgns
...because before version 4.50 I wasn't able to extract Plus! resources.
Resource Hacker or similar programs. Used by an extreme lot of people here....

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Originally posted by ahmetgns
Offtopic: However Patchou, I didn't like that resource extraction is done with English.
Resource extracting does what it says: it extract resources.

And those are in English because some sentences and other things are hard coded in Plus! for in the case Lng_Default.ini can not be found due to some error or whatever (eg: a mess up from the user).

Which is actually also how someone needs to extract a translation line from Plus! in scripting:
1) check if the requested language is available
2) if not available, fall back on Lng_Default.ini
3) if that can't be found, fall back on the hard coded string in Plus! itself (which is usually the same as the one in Lng_Default.ini) by providing that hardcoded line in the script.


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Isn't it possible?
No, since the plain raw resources inside Plus! are always in English.

However, it would be possible to replace the (english) sentences with the correct translated sentences from a translation file after the resources (or part of) are extracted. But that would require a major huge addition to Plus!'s Resource Extracting feature (It would need to include the complete huge list of indexes and references to all the ini-keys and topics).

And that would also only be for the benefit of translators (and even not all translators use the interface tester to get to those 'hidden' windows anyways; unfortunatly).

Not to mention that many elements can have multiple sentences; and you can only have 1 sentence in the resources. So you wouldn't even be able to use such a feature to its fullist anyways.

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I ask it only for easeness for my case
It would indeed make it a bit easier. But I rather want Patchou to put time in Plus! features which everybody can benefit from than putting time in something like this.... But if he has some spare time, why not :p

This post was edited on 02-20-2008 at 11:56 PM by CookieRevised.
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[self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by ahmetgns on 02-20-2008 at 10:17 AM
RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by Patchou on 02-20-2008 at 04:16 PM
RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by Mike on 02-20-2008 at 07:33 PM
RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by ahmetgns on 02-20-2008 at 08:57 PM
RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by CookieRevised on 02-20-2008 at 11:49 PM
RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by Chancer on 02-21-2008 at 02:55 AM
RE: [self-split]Testing [Window.PlusNotLoaded] window - by Patchou on 02-21-2008 at 04:19 AM


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