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- Subject: Re: New Template format discussion document
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.225631.27329@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:56:31 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <930101200448@kernow.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan5.124449.3180@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat) writes:
-
- >(5) A last point what I would like to raise is that there is no support for
- >text (read : Indirected Data) in different languages.
-
- >A solution for this could be different Indirected Data tables. IMHO this would
- >make the GLS_WIND chunk rather heavy. Therefore I suggest to define a new
- >chunk as :
-
- [chunk format for including millions of different language versions of the
- program text all in the one mega-massive file deleted]
-
- Argh! What about simply specifying that the text held in the icon is a
- messagetrans tag? Then the template-loading code can lookup the necessary
- text from the specified language-dependant messages file.
-
-
- >- All the window title texts are indirected and there are only indirected
- > icons. So the 'indirected data' bit *in the Glass file* can be used to
- > hold other information (eg. should we allow that other people can change
- > all the text strings in a Glass file, like copyright strings, version
- > numbers, etc. ?)
-
- Yes. Allow anyone with an editor to edit anything in the file. However, as
- a programmer, my advice to you is to fill 'sensitive' fields such as version
- numbers in from within the program after loading the templates. (Normally
- I create a string with a version number plus C's __DATE__ which automatically
- includes the version date when I recompile...)
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