Greek Strings in non unicode app

I tried to localize my ribbon and tabs using as a guide an older answer from Oleg.

You can add toolkit resources to same dll - add

#include "XTToolkitPro.rc"

and can define before

#define _XTP_RESOURCE_LANGUAGE el

to include Hebrew version instead English.

and in code add

XTPResourceManager()->SetResourceHandle(hYourDllHandle)

But my application (non unicode) is partially shows greek strings. Take a look. What am I doing wrong?

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Is it an UNICODE application?

Martin

Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0
Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit)
Language: VC++ 2022

Which encoding are you using for your .rc files? Perhaps that's the reason.

What do you get when you call CString::LoadString()? Is the content ok or not?

Martin

Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0
Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit)
Language: VC++ 2022

mgampi wrote:

Which encoding are you using for your .rc files? Perhaps that's the reason.

What do you get when you call CString::LoadString()? Is the content ok or not?

My settings

inside *.rc2

#define _XTP_RESOURCE_LANGUAGE el

inside *.rc

LANGUAGE LANG_GREEK, SUBLANG_DEFAULT

#pragma code_page(1253)

CString::LoadString()

I get gibberish instead of Greeks but String Table is notated as [Greek]

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mgampi wrote:

WHat happens if you try CStringW::LoadString instead of CString::LoadString (which indeed takes CStringA::LoadString())?

Testing with

CStringW strFormat;

strFormat.LoadString(136);

In this way it works just fine.

But what this exactly means? That my String Table is saved as a Unicode file and Compiler can not manage this?

Regards,

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...and another hint:

the correct order of statements in .rc2 file is

#define _XTP_RESOURCE_LANGUAGE el

#include "XTToolkitPro.rc"

First define the required language and the include the .rc file

Martin

Product: Xtreme Toolkit v 22.1.0, new Projects v 24.0.0
Platform: Windows 10 v 22H2 (64bit)
Language: VC++ 2022

mgampi wrote:

In Visual Studio IDE you can choose the file encoding when you call "Save as...". Just press the down arrow of the save button and select the correct encoding according your codepage 1253.

You can use Notepad++ for example to test the current encoding of your file and you can change the encoding if it's wrong using the "Encoding" main menu item of the same editor.

Hope this helps!

This project is pretty old and I am using VS2008. For *.rc files the option "Save as" is disabled, but it works with all other files.

So, I used Notepad++. I confirm that this is an ANSI file and I choose Greek 1253 as character encoding, before I save the file. Inside the *.rc file I can see without problems the Greek characters as well as inside the Visual Studio String Table.

No matter what, everytime I open once again the file under Notepad++, it reports ANSI but character encoding is turned back to default which is Greek ISO 8859-7.

I also changed the *.rc file to

#ifdef _WIN32

LANGUAGE LANG_GREEK, SUBLANG_GREEK_GREECE

#pragma code_page(1253)

#endif //_WIN32

I compiled and tested the code below. No difference at all. Using CStringW it works. To be honest, I am not sure what exactly is going on here but I assume that VS2008 ignores the Greek character encoding?

CString strFormat;

strFormat.LoadString(136);

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[Solved]

I don't know why this works and shows correctly the Greek characters, but the CXTPTaskDialog derived dialog should be called with TRUE in the 1st parameter to force use the ComCtl32.dll version of the task dialog. Unfortunately this concerns only for Vista and newer OSs

For example

CXTPTaskDialog tDialog(this);

tDialog.DoModal(TRUE);

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