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- From: okrumnow@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Olaf Krumnow)
- Subject: Re: New Template format discussion document
- Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:46:49 GMT
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- jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
- >>Just use the icon name as a tag to messagetrans.
- >>The text inside the Glass file should only be used as a default if
- >>no matching MessageTrans entry exist, or the Messages file got lost.
-
- >In DSEdit, I have no default text in my application. This is simply because
- >the messages file is so absolutely mindbogglingly important that there is
- >no point in even trying to run without it... As the text for all interactions
- >and the menus are messagetransed, I can't really see any point in defaults
- >most of the time...
-
- Well, it's not a must, it's a maybe. But while creating the windows
- you'll have the textes anyway. While generating a messagetrans file,
- the messages are there. So why not use them as default (while loading the glass
- file into your program)
- >--
- >themasterofthearcanejwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nzthismessagewassentonrecycledelectrons
-
- Olaf.
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