Re: Localisable resources?

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From: Donovan Winch
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:38

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Hey People,

Ben Combee wrote:
> The standard PilRC plugin from Neil identifies itself as being for OS
> "MacOS" and CPU "MC68K".  This is to make it compatible with CodeWarrior
> for Palm OS.  Since its an open-source plugin, you could recompile it to
> match the OS and processor IDs' used by ARM's linker plugin to the CW
> IDE, but I don't know what those IDs are.

Erk! I didn't even try to find out the IDs either, but thanks again for
the idea.

> The XRD format is still proprietary to PalmSource... I do not think
> they've publicly released this format or their tools to support it, so
> to get any information on that, you need to talk directly to them or to
> the licensee you're working with.

Ah. Well that would explain that, too. Although it seems rather odd that
the resource file format is proprietary; kinda makes it hard to write
resources in it! ;)

As it is, I've got a program from the licensee (not sure if it's a
standard program available to anyone or not), that generates a .xrd from
a .rsrc. So I can build the .rsrc in constructor, generate the .xrd in
UTF-8, localise the strings contained in there and build the .prc in
CodeWarrior using the relevant localised .xrd file for resources.

It's a bit fiddly and long-winded, but seems to work.

Thanks for the help, Ben & Gavin.

Donovan.
(donovan dot winch at picsel dot com)

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