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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 08:52 am

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Hi,

I'm evaluating your software and like it because it supports DevExpress fully. I only found I think a little bug in translating captions of radiobuttons of the TcxRadioGroup button.

The situation: Sisulizer scans all strings even the captions of radiobuttons so I can translate them. Then when I have build a dutch resource dll and implemented the translation in my Delphi program like the example Language changing without the sisulizer dialog it goes wrong.

When my program starts it uses the dutch resource dll because my OS is dutch. All strings are translated correct (also the captions of the radiobuttons of the TcxRadioGroup). Then when I select the default language (English) then all strings except the captions of the radiobuttons of a TcxRadioGroup are translated back to English. So the caption of the tcxRadioGroup is translated correctly to English but the individual captions of the radiobuttons not

.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong (I use Delphi 2009 with a drc file).

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 09:23 am

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Hi,

You speak about the runtime switch of languages with LaTranslator.pas?

Please make sure that you read this: http://www.sisulizer.com/online-help/RuntimeLanguageChangeVcl.htm

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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 10:32 am

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I read the help but don't see what specific part you are pointing to. I don't use dynamic properties (all captions are set on design time) so I don't have to create the form again. Also I use the following modules:

uses
LaCommon,
LaResource,
LaTranslator;

In the initialization part I added the following:

initialization
// Translate only string properties when performing runtime language switch
LaEnabledProperties := STRING_TYPES_C;

On FormCreate I do the following:

procedure TfrmMain.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
procedure Process(locale: Integer);
var
    str: String;
begin
    str := GetWindowsLocaleName(locale, True);
    cbLanguage.Properties.Items.AddObject(str, TObject(locale));
end;

var
i, locale: Integer;
code: String;
languages: TStringList;
begin
AppDir := ExtractFilePath(Application.ExeName);
InitializeSkinList;
// PageControl.ActivePageIndex := 0;

// Populate the radio group to contains the possible languages

// Original language is English
Process(LANG_ENGLISH);

// Add the available languages.
// Get only those that are compatible to the current code page.
languages := TStringList.Create;
try
    GetAvailableResources(languages, '', True);

    for i := 0 to languages.Count - 1 do
    begin
      code := languages[i];
      locale := ExtensionToLocale(code);
      Process(locale);

      if code = LoadedResourceLocale then
        cbLanguage.ItemIndex := cbLanguage.Properties.Items.Count - 1;
    end;

    if cbLanguage.ItemIndex = -1 then
      cbLanguage.ItemIndex := 0;
finally
    languages.Free;
end;
end;

And on selecting another language I do:

procedure TfrmMain.cbLanguageClick(Sender: TObject);
var
locale: Integer;
code: String;
begin
locale := Integer(cbLanguage.Properties.Items.Objects[cbLanguage.ItemIndex]);

// Original language is English so use empty language code with English
if locale = LANG_ENGLISH then
code := ''
else
code := LocaleToExtension(locale);

SetNewResourceFile(code);
end;

Also I found another strange thing. When loading the languages in a combobox the English language is shown as "English" and the resource dll language is shown as "Nederlands". The latter is correct because my OS is Dutch but then I suspect that the first one should be "Engels" and not "English".

Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 10:40 am

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Hi,

I'm not a Delphi developer, but I would expect that you some action is needed to convince that the DevExpress change the language at runtime. I have to ask our Delphi cracks for some help with that. In the moment they are answering questions to users at the conferences in San Jose and Tokyo where we are exhibiting.

I try to point them to this thread nevertheless.

Markus

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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 10:54 am

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Thanks.

The only strange thing is that all other devexpress controls I use are working correct for so far as I tested.

Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 10:58 am

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Sometimes third party change things. So perhaps it is just a fresh flaw in LaTranslator and the "action to be done" is on our side :-)

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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 11:55 am

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I have some news.

Please make a simple application that contains one form and one TcxRadioGroup. Not more please ,-)
Then upload the compiled EXE and source (.dpr .dfm .pas) to me. Please use the new "Private Upload" button right above this post. It helps us to keep track of uploads and forums posts. Our guess is that DevExpress changed the data type for that particular control. But that is guessing just out of the blue. Your sample might help to find that.

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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 12:37 pm

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Must I also include runtime language changing in this application?

I will send it to you tonight.

Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 12:43 pm

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No,

just one form with one TcxRadioGroup. I understood that our developers want to look at it with a HexEditor. The smaller the app the better. We don't have the latest DevExpress control at our conference booth so we need your help with that.

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Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 01:42 pm

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Maybe I found what's the cause of the problem. In the breaking changes of the latest build I found this:

Build 43

Breaking Change – Intermediate TcxCaptionItem and TcxCaptionItems classes have been introduced. They implement the generic

functionality of items and item collections in group controls, such as button group and checklist box controls. As a result, the

TcxButtonGroupItem and TcxCheckListBoxItem classes inherit from TcxCaptionItem, while the TcxButtonGroupItems and

TcxCheckListBoxItems classes inherit from TcxCaptionItems.

I will send you the sample application later.

Posted: Wed May 13th, 2009 01:47 pm

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Yes, that sounds like a good reason.

Hopefully your sample will help. Else we have to wait for DevExpress to update us.

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Posted: Fri May 15th, 2009 12:34 pm

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Hi Markus,

I uploaded the sample wednesday evening, did one of the delphi developers had time to check it out?

Posted: Fri May 15th, 2009 12:37 pm

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Hi,

Yes, they looked into it while on the conference. We hoped that the binary could give some info. But they found out that they need to look into it again next week in the office. There will be definitely a fix for that.

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Posted: Fri May 15th, 2009 12:40 pm

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Ok, thanks.

Posted: Wed May 20th, 2009 01:35 pm

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Hi, is there any progress on this issue?

Posted: Wed May 20th, 2009 01:40 pm

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I think R&D is are waiting for some feedback by DevExpress. It is not forgotten.

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Posted: Mon May 25th, 2009 07:10 am

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Hi,

I just verified that we are still waiting for some feedback from DevExpress. You already found yourself. The control was recently changed and we need some info about the internal structure from the developers.

Perhaps you could set the properties controlling the strings at runtime. You could use resource strings for it and localize them with Sisulizer. This way you could localizer your application 100%. You just would not have WYSIWYG for the radio-buttons right now.

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Posted: Mon May 25th, 2009 09:34 am

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Hi Markus,

Didn't think about that, will do that for the time it's not yet implemented.

Thanks.

Posted: Mon May 25th, 2009 10:04 am

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Hi,

This workaround always works. Some vendors do not join our third party program at all and hide strings in undocumented binary blocks. It would be a good idea if these settings would be stored in some XML structure (like the ResX format) embedded in the project. For localization reasons that would be a big step forward.

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Posted: Mon May 25th, 2009 02:30 pm

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I fixed this bug in build 284. The problem was the the collection name contained dot (.) and translator failed to translate it. The new build will come out sooon.

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