Multilanguage suppport

[lamer]

Hi all!
I've never created apps with multilanguage support - and now I'm confused how to do that. Theoretically I know there should be Unicode files for each language (actually just INI files) that I read strings from and apply them to controls or menu items. But nothing comes of it :'( I try to use GetPrivateProfileStringW and get either rubbish or nothing. I guess it's rather a simple task - few lines of code will come in handy :bg
Thank you.

[ramguru]

Hi,
If you want multilanguage user interface the first thing you should do is to save rc files in unicode and to write the same resource in differ. language. f.e.:

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10000 MENUEX
LANGUAGE 0x9, 0 //in english
BEGIN
POPUP "Languages",10005
BEGIN
MENUITEM "Change language",10006
END
END

10000 MENUEX
LANGUAGE 0x27, 0 //in lithuanian
BEGIN
POPUP "Kalba",10005
BEGIN
MENUITEM "Keisti kalbą",10006
END
END


The biggest trouble here is to make program use particular language. For menu resource this worked...

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.....
.elseif eax==WM_COMMAND
mov    eax, wParam
.if eax == 10006
invoke FindResourceEx, 0, RT_MENU, 10000, 27h
invoke LoadResource,   0, eax
invoke LoadMenuIndirect,  eax
invoke SetMenu,     hWin, eax
.endif
.....

btw try to google "sdk MUI"

[pmos]

yeah..but something else shows up.

[lamer]

Hi, ramguru!
I didn't mean resource based MUI, but run-time ability to chose needed language in some combo or listbox (see Radasm-->Options-->Language). You have a unicode INI file like:

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[10000]
10006=Keisti kalbą
and maps loaded strings to menu items or controls.