Multilingual

Classic Servoy
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I’m trying to make my solution multilingual, using the following structure:

-a new database “dictionary”, for every title a field, for every language a record

-a global field “language” and a relation from this field to a languagenr- field in the “dictionary”-database

-for every user a “language field”, set by startup.

This works very fine, but maybe there’s a better way to do this.

Problem with this method are column headers (portal & list view) and title text of windows, I can’t get this done.

Anyone?

Stef

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Maybe the better way is to wait untill Servoy included localisation into their product… :D

somewhere on the forum they’ve talked about it, dunno what the current status is. Maybe we’ll see it in the first beta after the release of 2.0…

Paul

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Thanks Paul. Didn’t know that was on the planning.
This will help me a lot.

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yes it will be done right after the release of 2.0

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jcompagner:
yes it will be done right after the release of 2.0

Hi Johan,
I have to develop a multi-user custom made database that should be multi-langual : each user wants to select the user-interfaces’ language (choose among 2 or more languages). These languages are not in the same font codepages (English & Russian, Armenian, …)

It seems that, to date, it should be done in ‘the FileMaker way’ : a language table (with one record for each language and a lot of columns for all the text elements of the user interface) and a global value for the choosen language.
With Servoy is it possible to realize this in a more optimal way ?

Is it possible to implement not only translated labels and buttons, but also translated text on tabs, column headers, window titles and dialogs ?

What do you mean by “include localisation into the product” ?

By the way : I am an experienced FileMaker developer, but I am new to Servoy.

Kind regards,

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Try the latest Beta and you can see that (almost) all you need is right there. You just need to punch in the translation…