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tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (John Tytgat) writes:

>(5) A last point what I would like to raise is that there is no support for
>text (read : Indirected Data) in different languages.

>A solution for this could be different Indirected Data tables.  IMHO this would
>make the GLS_WIND chunk rather heavy.  Therefore I suggest to define a new
>chunk as :

 [chunk format for including millions of different language versions of the
 program text all in the one mega-massive file deleted]

Argh! What about simply specifying that the text held in the icon is a
messagetrans tag? Then the template-loading code can lookup the necessary
text from the specified language-dependant messages file.


>- All the window title texts are indirected and there are only indirected
>  icons.  So the 'indirected data' bit *in the Glass file* can be used to
>  hold other information (eg. should we allow that other people can change
>  all the text strings in a Glass file, like copyright strings, version
>  numbers, etc. ?)

Yes. Allow anyone with an editor to edit anything in the file. However, as
a programmer, my advice to you is to fill 'sensitive' fields such as version
numbers in from within the program after loading the templates. (Normally
I create a string with a version number plus C's __DATE__ which automatically
includes the version date when I recompile...)
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