Change resource dll list while runtime

[Bj?rn]

HY,

my problem is the following:

I want to give a very big application the ability, to change the
language at runtime. It's written in Visual C++ 6.0. All language
depending strings and so on, are already stored in different
resource-dll's. The way, I understand it, there is a list of
resources, which the application goes through, searching for strings.
For example my string is in stringa.dll in english. But I want to have
the application in French, which is all stored in stringb.dll.

Can I somehow replace the pointer (?) in the resource-dll-list with
another one? It's very circuitous to change the main resource pointer
(AfxSetResource Handle()) all the time...

Thank you very much,

Bjoern

[Andre Kostur]

bj**********@gm x.net (Bj?rn) wrote in news:f2c4f392.0 410071211.f859b 14
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HY,

my problem is the following:

I want to give a very big application the ability, to change the
language at runtime. It's written in Visual C++ 6.0. All language
depending strings and so on, are already stored in different
resource-dll's. The way, I understand it, there is a list of

[snip]

And you go spinning off into the realm of platform-specific stuff.... which
is off-topic for comp.lang.c++. In clc++ the topic is Standard C++, which
has no concept of DLLs.... Please try over in the Microsoft programming
groups....

[JKop]

Bj?rn posted:

HY,

my problem is the following:

I want to give a very big application the ability, to change the
language at runtime. It's written in Visual C++ 6.0. All language
depending strings and so on, are already stored in different
resource-dll's. The way, I understand it, there is a list of
resources, which the application goes through, searching for strings.
For example my string is in stringa.dll in english. But I want to have
the application in French, which is all stored in stringb.dll.

Can I somehow replace the pointer (?) in the resource-dll-list with
another one? It's very circuitous to change the main resource pointer
(AfxSetResource Handle()) all the time...

Thank you very much,

Bjoern

I've done this before.

Here was my strategy:

I defined a struct called "Language", and I gave it a member variable for
every string in the program:

struct Language
{
const char* open;
const char* close;
const char* exit;
};
Then I would have a global object of this structure:
Language current_languag e;
And throughout the entire program, this object would be used.
I'd have a function to change the language:
void ChangeCurrentLa nguageToIrish()
{
current_languag e.open = "Oscaill";
current_languag e.close = "Dún";
current_languag e.exit = "Fág";
}
But ofcourse, you could get the strings from anywhere, like in Win32, you
could load them from the resource file within the executable.
-JKop