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Re: Converting RC text files to and from DOC/TXT format

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From: Goran Ekstrom
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:31
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"Vladimir Stefanovic" <antivari@po.sbb.co.yu> skrev i meddelandet 
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>> This is for text-only resource files.
>
> Do you refer to string-table only resource files?
>
> like:
>   IDS_SOMESTRING
>      "This is the text to be extracted, translated and then imported back"
>
> If that's the problem, it's not so hard to make a routine
> that will do that for you...

Yeah, writing it myself has crossed my mind. Just don't have the time just 
now for tool-programming.

>
> Once, I made a routine that as input takes a root from which
> I searched for all *.RC files through folders/subfolders and
> then crypted them (only string parts, of course). The same
> procedure started once again decrypted them...
>
>
> Small digression:
>
>   This remembered me on my *first* task in software company
>   I used to work. I had to make a program/utility that opens RC
>   stringtable file, and then the user (the girl who knew English better
>   than as - coders) was intended to correct our translations and then
>   position the cursor in the string field and then press a button that
>   invokes our custom message box with the text under the cursor
>   as body. That was importan because the boss wanted every text
>   to be wraped on the most appropriate place, so the girl was told
>   (tought) to place '\n' at the places where she thought that was the
>   most pleasant for eye :)

Now thats what I call work! ;-)


>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Stefanovic
>
> 
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