home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!mfmail!usenet
- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.introduction,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:16:50 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
- Message-ID: <4i3tg2$78d@hyperion.mfltd.co.uk>
- References: <2477.6641T698T2915@actcom.co.il> <xQ0kVMD50D2alzB@trib0039.tribal.line.org> <4i33le$mvc@daily-planet.execpc.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: scm.mfltd.co.uk
- X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.7
-
- In article <4i33le$mvc@daily-planet.execpc.com>, innuendo@execpc.com says...
- >
- >> > 12. Improve locale so that catclogs wont need to be compiled.
- >>
- >> So that every lamer can hack them? No... that makes no sense.
- >
- > Every lamer with access to Aminet, or even a hex editor, can hack them the
- >way they are. Still, going to text-only would be too slow, and incompatible
- >as well. It makes no sense to change them.
-
- Allowing either wouldn't be that difficult. I wrote a multi platform NLS
- handler that did something very similar. It allowed use of standard X/Open
- UNIX style language files which are in text mode normally. I then wrote a
- fairly simple language file compiler. The same API's could be used to access
- either file transparently.
-
- Accessing just text mode files was needed for X/Open compliance on UNIX
- systems but on DOS/OS2/Windoze etc where no standard for language files exists
- I allowed text or compiled files for speed. Having the language files just in
- text mode is very useful when testing changes. Compile it for speed later.
-
- Of course, in the context of Workbench, allowing the user to configure their
- own text has some advantages. If you're setting up a system for a novice or a
- particular purpose, being able to alter the terms used so that they understand
- them is quite useful.
-
- --
- Shaun C. Murray | e-mail: scm@mfltd.co.uk
- Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, UK. | www: http://www.mfltd.co.uk/~scm/
-
-