The language dialog
The settings for a language are made in this dialog. It is displayed:
- when you add a new target language to a project or modify one of the existing target languages. See Changing the Project Settings or The Project Setup Dialog.
- when you modify the standard settings for a language, see Default Settings for Languages.
The Language field only contains a selection of languages when a new language is being added. When modifying the settings for an existing language, the language itself cannot be changed. All the languages defined in Windows are contained in the list. To enter additional language number codes, choose the entry Other at the end of the list. The language is displayed in different standard encodings. The name of the corresponding encoding standard is shown in a tooltip if you move the mouse over the field.
From the Codepage list, choose the corresponding codepage. The recommended selection is to use the (Default) entry to select the codepage that corresponds to the language being extracted. Experienced users may also choose a different codepage by selecting the required entry from the list. Please note, however, that this codepage must be installed on the system.
You can choose the font to be used for strings in this language from the popup menu of the Font field. To indicate that the same font is to be used in the dialogs of the generated target files, activate the checkbox Also use this font for dialogs in target files. This will only work correctly with file formats that support variable font settings for dialogs, as for example Win32, Delphi and .NET applications.
If you don't want to use all the characters of the selected character set as access keys, activate the check box Restrict access keys to. This option is useful when you use the automatic assignment of access keys. In the edit field enter the valid access keys. Define a range by entering the first character, a hyphen, and the last character. You can define several ranges. These must be separated by semicolons. For example: "a-z;ä;ö;ü".
For languages such as Japanese or Chinese, the access is shown at the end of the text, e.g. "ファイル(&F)". Passolo will use this method if you select the Display access keys in parentheses at the end of the text option.
The Save settings and Load settings buttons are enabled when one of the target languages of the project is being modified. Save settings stores the current settings as the default settings for the given language. The next time you add this language to a project, these settings will be used. Load settings retrieves the saved settings for the given language, if any have been saved. All saved language settings are listed under the Passolo options; see Default Settings for Languages.