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From: TMOTA
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:18

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okrumnow@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Olaf Krumnow) writes:

>TMOTA wrote:

>>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.

>Just use the icon name as a tag to messagetrans.
>The text inside the Glass file should only be used as a default if
>no matching MessageTrans entry exist, or the Messages file got lost.

In DSEdit, I have no default text in my application. This is simply because
the messages file is so absolutely mindbogglingly important that there is
no point in even trying to run without it... As the text for all interactions
and the menus are messagetransed, I can't really see any point in defaults
most of the time...
-- 
themasterofthearcanejwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nzthismessagewassentonrecycledelectrons

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