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Article #6Re: Localisable resources?
From: Gavin Maxwell
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:45
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:45
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Neil Rhodes has created a PilRC plugin for Codewarrior that lets you use
.RCP text resource files - that bit is easy, however I'm not sure about
using it with CW ADS...??
http://www.calliopeinc.com/pilrcplugin.html
You might also like to check the PilRC manual for your other questions:
http://www.ardiri.com/index.php?redir=palm&cat=pilrc&subcat=manual
Gavin.
Donovan Winch <donovan.winch@picsel.com> wrote in message
news:3D77222C.6D2323E6@picsel.com...
> Hey people,
>
> I've asked this in a different way before and got no response, but I'm
> still having some difficulties, so I thought I'd try again.
>
> I'm part of a team developing a Palm application (Palm OS 5, to be
> running on ARM, if it's important) using CodeWarrior for ARM Developer
> Suite 1.2, and I need to make it localisable. From my point of view,
> this means getting the resource file into a format ('text'-based) that
> can be sent to a third party to translate and send back to me. This
> resource file format needs to somehow support different character
> encodings, so we can have one in each language.
>
> Now I'm in a bit of trouble. I've got it working so far in English,
> using the .RSRC format (which seems to be binary).
>
> I also have some .rcp files from using the PilRC for the emulator, but
> I'm not sure if I can get these working with CodeWarrior, and I'm also
> not sure if .rcp files can be in any character encoding other than ISO
> "Latin 1".
>
> I have looked, and failed to find, any format description for the .xrd
> resource files that I can create CodeWarrior projects for, but these are
> also text-based, so if I could find a syntax description for them (i.e.
> what tags/attributes are valid/available) then they might work too.
>
> Can anyone advise me or point me to a text-based resource format, that
> will work with our CodeWarrior for ADS1.2 project in place of our
> current binary .RSRC file, and will also support multiple character
> encodings?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Donovan.
> (donovan.winch at picsel.com)
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