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Problems with translating RB - a design shortcoming

rbuserrbuser
edited July 2001 in General
Hi,

I have translated my version of ReportBuilder but now I have problem with
the text of many captions not fitting into corresponding components' space.
Even original English captions often doesn't fit and are truncated on your
forms and I think it should be a rule that you leave at least 40% of
additional space for translated strings because the appropriate strings in
other languages can be much longer. I don't need to customize any of the
forms for now but I want to have nice descriptions after the work of
translating. Having to fine tune all that places after each new release of
RB is a horrible prospect for me.

Thank you
Janusz

Comments

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited July 2001
    I think it would be nice if all of the strings that digital metaphors used
    were stored in a delphi file that purely contained resourcestrings so that
    the job of doing translations ( like the one you did ) would become trivial.
    In fact if they did store them in outbound files it would be easier for
    people like you to just translate it once and send it to them and then from
    that point on it would just be included in their release ( or available on
    their website [grin] ). It wouldn't take much programming.

    Maybe if you did it this way and sent it to them they could integrate your
    changes into the real release.

    Nice thought isn't it [grin]



  • rbuserrbuser
    edited July 2001
    Just a thought. I ran into a similar problem while translating my
    application from English to Spanish. After some thought I chose to write TWO
    separate reports (each in separate, dummy forms): one in English and the
    other in Spanish. It's not very efficient (memory-wise) but it works very
    well.

    Best regards,
    Ray

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited July 2001
    I'm sorry, I don't get it. What is the use of two separates reports here?

    Thank you
    Janusz

  • rbuserrbuser
    edited July 2001
    Digital Metaphors provides appropriate *.rc files and also a translating
    application so translation is not so big problem - one can modify easily
    *.rc file, compile it, copy to system folder - and that's all. The problem
    for me arises later, when my translated strings often turn out to be too
    long to fit into, for instance, the relevant labels so I have to localize
    the form, the label and in the end to change its size so that the whole
    translated strings were visible. The sizes of labels etc. should be simply
    set with some reserve because in average English words are shorter than
    German, Polish, French etc. words.

    Thank you
    Janusz


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