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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)

Hey Gavin,

Gavin Maxwell wrote:
> 
> 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

Thanks for the tip. I'd heard about this, but not tried it. Now I've
tried it, and it doesn't seem to notice the dll there at all (i.e. the
plug-in doesn't show up at all in the 'Compiler' drop-down list from the
File Mappings dialog. Any ideas? Perhaps this plug-in just doesn't work
with this version of CodeWarrior?

> 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

Yeah, I've got that stored locally too. It mentions international usage,
but doesn't actually say how to use characters from non-latin character
sets. Perhaps the .rcp file is able to be in 'Unicode' UTF-16, or UTF-8,
but I don't know if I have to specify what encoding it is in, and if so,
how.

Also, I'm still after a format description for .xrd files. This would be
the best solution, I think, but documentation on valid tags, attributes
and other format-related stuff just doesn't seem to exist. Or at least,
I can't find it....

Anyone?

Thanks again,

Donovan.
(donovan.winch at picsel.com)

In article <3D78B9E7.77996FE6@picsel.com>, donovan.winch@picsel.com 
says...
> Hey Gavin,
> 
> Gavin Maxwell wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I'd heard about this, but not tried it. Now I've
> tried it, and it doesn't seem to notice the dll there at all (i.e. the
> plug-in doesn't show up at all in the 'Compiler' drop-down list from the
> File Mappings dialog. Any ideas? Perhaps this plug-in just doesn't work
> with this version of CodeWarrior?

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.

> Also, I'm still after a format description for .xrd files. This would be
> the best solution, I think, but documentation on valid tags, attributes
> and other format-related stuff just doesn't seem to exist. Or at least,
> I can't find it....

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.
-- 
Ben Combee <bcombee@metrowerks.com>
CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/

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)