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Posted: Fri Mar 13th, 2009 05:24 pm

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Hello,

I'm evaluating your SISULIZER software for my delphi apps.

I was trying edit TDBGrid component to enable the translation of the Columns.Title.Caption property.

I added:

Columns.Title.Caption

mode included

status custom ?Don't know what this is?

type string

However, it did not work.

Do i have to do anything else?

Thanks,

Duarte

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I have attached a sample that shows how to localized Title.Caption of TDBGrid. The application is for Delphi 2009 but can be compiled with earlier versions.

When you use TDBGrid you have two options. Either you populate TDBGrid.Columns manually on design time or you leave it empty and VCL populates the column on run time.

Design time columns

You use Delphi IDE to add the columns that you want to be visible. Each TColumn contains Title.Caption property that specifies the caption that is shown on the grid. Unfortunately VCL does not save the Caption property into DFM if the value of the Caption equals to the name of the field in the database. In this sample the field names are plain English and this is why even if you add columns manually the values are not saved to DFM

Columns = <
    item
      Expanded = False
      FieldName = 'Id'
    Width = 30
      Visible = True
    end
    ...

No Caption property here. To localize captions you have two options.

You set the Title.Caption value such that it does not match the field name. This way VCL saves it and SL can automatically localize it.
You assign the Caption properties on run time using resource strings. This sample uses this method. See TMainForm.FormCreate.

Default columns

You don't populate the columns and this makes VCL to automatically populate it on run time. There is not Columns data in DFM so SL can not automatically localize the columns. You have to assign the Caption properties on run time. See TMainForm.FormCreate.

Jaakko

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