Translation of my own Printdialog to German

rbuser

Hi,

we have created our own derivation of the TppPRintDialog, adding a button
to set the text-export settings in the Print to file portion of the dialog.
All this works fine, until our german customer opened the dialog in his german
version of our application, and then he complained the print dialog showed
in english and not i german like the rest of the application (including reportbuilder
parts).

How can i correct this problem? Most of the components on our own printdialog
are just equal to the TppPrintDialog our dialog is inherited from...

gr
Bas

nicocizik

Hi Bas,

Did you copy the existing print dialog before adding the custom items?
If so, you need to be sure you have implemented the LanguageChanged
routine and that it's called when the language has been changed. All
text inside the dialog should not be hard coded, the strings are loaded
from the language resource files using the ppLoadStr routine.

Are you able to recreate this if you change the language to German on
your machine?

rbuser

Hello Nico,

Thanks for you answer.

I created the new dialog as a new class derived from TppPritnDialog

TfrmRBPrintDialog = class(TppPrintDialog)
btnPrinttextSetup: TButton;
procedure btnPrinttextSetupClick(Sender: TObject);
procedure lblPrintToFileClick(Sender: TObject);
procedure cbxPrintToFileClick(Sender: TObject);
protected
public
procedure Activate; override;
end;

I assume that TppPrintDialog.LanguageChanged is still called ...

I find it odd that the original components (unchanged, declared in TppPrintDialog)
are not translated ..


gr
Bas

nicocizik

Hi Bas,

If you temporarily remove your custom print dialog from the project and
use the built-in one, is the translation correct? If, when using your
custom dialog, you place a break point inside the LanguageChanged
routine, is it called when you change the language?