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3.3 Multilanguage Enabling the Database
number range for the text constants that are being converted, DAN is the language
code of the language (Danish) that the files are in, 1030 is the language ID of that
language and "ÆØÅæøå" are the special characters in that language.
Making Captions
In a multilanguage-enabled database, the user sees only captions - not names. The
make-ml tool creates captions and names them after the Name property when there
are missing captions in an object. This procedure does not replace any existing
captions.
To install the make-ml tool:
· In Windows Explorer, copy the make-ml tool from the Upgtk folder to the working
folder, for example C:\Multilanguage\W1\NF\260.
The files that you need are:
make-ml.bat
make-ml2.exe
To make captions by copying the contents of the Name property to the Caption
property:
1 In the new Navision 4.0 application, export a translation file by selecting the objects
in the Object Designer that you want to give captions and clicking Tools, Translate,
Export. Save this file as ENW1_client_360.txt.
2 Go to your command prompt (or DOS) and change directory to the working folder,
for example C:\Multilanguage\W1\NF\260.
3 Enter the following command line, but exchange the files names for the names of
the files that you have created:
make-ml ENW1_360_client.txt cap_ENW1_360_client.txt 1033
where make-ml is the name of the tool, ENW1_360_client.txt is the name of the
base file that you created in step · above, cap_ENW1_360_client.txt is the name
of the target file, and 1033 indicates the language ID that is the base application
language for this database, in this case English (United States).
4 When the tool has created the new client text file, open the new Navision 4.0
application, and import the cap_ENW1_client_360.txt file by selecting all objects
in the Object Designer and clicking Tools, Translate, Import.
5 Compile all objects.
Post-Processing
The post-processing process includes testing for errors. You should go through the
objects that you have converted to identify problem areas. The use of option variables
is one such problem area.
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