Multilanguage support for application using XML

[Wokawidget]

Here's a demo project that stores captions and text in XML files. One file per language. The XML format of each file is identical.
When you switch language in your app a new file is loaded and the captions of buttons and the text of other controls can easily be changed.

Regards,

Woof

[vbmom]

Hi Woka. I am digging this idea to implement language. I can imagine that you could store msgbox text and maybe write a program to parse your .frm file to gather the control names, caption/text values etc. and automate at least the English XML (or whatever language you're writing in!)

I just wanted to tell you something and I hope that replying to your post is appropriate. I have never been in the code bank before.

In frmMain.SelectCurrentLanguage, there is a typo where you set the combo box language. It says

If cboLanguage.ItemData(lngIndex) = lngDefault Then
cboLanguage.ListIndex = lngDefault
Exit For
End If

But you probably meant:

If cboLanguage.ItemData(lngIndex) = lngDefault Then
cboLanguage.ListIndex = lngIndex
Exit For
End If

[Wokawidget]

Good spot

Cheers.

Will fix it now.

Woof

[Wokawidget]

U can store text for msgbox's, labels, filenames and other random text.
Yea, it should be too hard to automate it. Just a small function ijn a module that looks at controls on a form. Not rocket science.

I have just had a thought. This could be used as an ini file, could do with a write command...Hmmmm.

Woof

[manavo11]

I got an error... "ActiveX control couldn't create..." that kinda thing... Number 91 I think... Don't have VB installed at the moment so I don't remember what it was exactly? Any idea? The reference was OK

[Wokawidget]

You got MS XML installed?

Woka

[visva]

[manavo11]

You got MS XML installed?

Woka

I guess? The reference is OK, it doesn't say missing or anything like that. In the autocomplete list in the code, in the declaration :

Private mobjDOM As DOMDocument40

I see DOMDocument40... Is there something else that I should download or need?

[Wokawidget]

You need MSXML4.
What are you referencing?

Woka

[manavo11]

Version 5 is referenced...

[Wokawidget]

Errrr...v5???

Are you sure?
I thought the latest was v4, didn't even know about v5.
Can't find anything on google

Here's a screenshot of my references.

Wka

[manavo11]

I'm way ahead of my times

[Mark103]

It's a really shame because vb6 only support ANSI. Are there any 3rd party control that it will support unicode??






Thanks,
Mark

[Wokawidget]

I am not following you...

Woka

[grzechog]

Hi all, im new here I'm VB6 user and I'm trying to build multilanguage app using Woka's demo but i have an issue with Cyrillic characters - instead of "вщь" i can see only "???". Other languages like polish (with ł,ą,ę etc ) or english works fine. Thanks for replays.

[accidental]

@ grzechog , yes you can use cyrillic just save the *.xml file in Utf-8 encoding (for this i used Notepad++).
@ Wokawidget, thanks for the code.

[Wokawidget]

np. thanks for the tip for cyrillic.