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- From: S_Page@GO.COM
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
- Subject: Re: Is PenPoint UI universal?
- Message-ID: <413@asylum.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 05:04:19 GMT
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- vp01@newshost.gte.com (Vincent Phuah) of GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA asks:
-
- Could anyone of you tell me whether the PenPoint user
- interface, e.g., the PenPoint Notebook User Interface
- is a universal UI? What I mean by that, is whether
- I could "reprogrammed" it for non-english users similar
- to the internationalization feature in the X Window System.
- Thanks in advance. Any info would be appreciated.
- --
-
- I'm not familiar with X's Internationalization features, but we're working
- on it. PenPoint applications in release 1.0 can get resources such as
- strings from resource lists, and the PenPoint architecture provides other
- useful facilities such as filing locale-dependent objects in resource files
- and accessing international-aware external services (DLLs). However, in
- PenPoint 1.0, the Notebook User Interface is hardcoded in English.
-
- Future versions of PenPoint support Unicode, a 16-bit worldwide character
- set, and provide extensive international routines. There's information on
- how to go about designing for internationalization and localization on pages
- 61-64 of the "PenPoint Application Writing Guide." Also, we recently
- uploaded a serial I/O sample program (SXDEMO.ZIP in GO's library section 6
- of the Pen Technology Forum on CompuServe) that demonstrates how to do this:
- it has no strings compiled into it other than debugging messages, and it
- runs on PenPoint 1.0.
-
- =S
-