« Return to Thread: Re: how to localize a common dialog box

Re: Re: how to localize a common dialog box

by Karsten Hilbert :: Rate this Message:

Reply to Author | View in Thread

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:27:41AM +0300, Public cai wrote:

> >> Firstly, my code is C++ code and it's using wxWidgets, not wxPython. I asked on this list because it seemed to me that I get the answer  quicker.
> >What help is a quick answer that doesn't apply ?
>
> Well, for most questions I asked on this list, the answers applied
> both to wxPython as to wxWidgets.
Now, that's good news.

> I continued studying the problem and found out that for Windows,
> - wxDirDialog actually calls SHBrowseForFolder()
> - SHBrowseForFolder() is a Windows Shell API function
> - seems that the Windows Shell API functions are not localized and
> follow the language setting of Windows,
Your analysis seems correct.

> meaning that if the user has a
> German Windows installation (for example), she will see the common
> dialogs translated to German.
Verstehe.

> So I guess I shouldn't bother my head with common dialog localization anymore...
Scheinbar hat Microsoft für Dich entschieden.

Karsten
--
GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net
E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD  4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
_______________________________________________
wxpython-users mailing list
wxpython-users@...
http://lists.wxwidgets.org/mailman/listinfo/wxpython-users

 « Return to Thread: Re: how to localize a common dialog box