International Zusi-Version (customizable lables)

[Carsten Hölscher]

I found a very simple way to customize most of the Zusi dialogs, labels and other Windows-elements.

It is not absolutely perfect because there are a few labels that are updated by the programme during operation. These cases cannot be covered by my algorithm but would require expensive manual changes in the programme-code.

But most of the texts are static, so it makes sense to add this functions in the next Zusi-versions.

Zusi will read the entrys from an ascii file (you see 4 menu-items of the 'Fahrsimulator' here):

Code: Alles auswählen

Datei1.Caption = &Strecke
ffnenimVollbildmodus1.Caption = Öffnen im &Vollbildmodus...
ffnen2.Caption = Öffnen im Fenstermodus...
Beenden2.Caption = &Beenden

The right part of each line can be replaced by individual text.

Carsten

[Arie van Zon]

That's good news; thanks.

/Arie

[Andreas Karg]

Is ja krass...
What does the '&' mean?

[Max Senft]

Hi,

das sind die "Shortcuts", bzw. die unterstrichenen Einträge in den Menüs Also z.B. Datei -> Öffnen... = &Datei -> Ö&ffnen

Bye
Max Senft

[Andreas Karg]

Yeah, Max! And now in English please...

[Max Senft]

Hi,

oooops. I didn't notice, that the other postings were in English. *lol*
So, my posting in English:

that are the "shortcuts" which means the underscored items in the menus.
Example: &File becomes File...

Bye
Max Senft

[Andreas Karg]

Braver Bupp.

(English: Something like "honest guy")

[Carsten Hölscher]

It works now. Does anyone want to translate? Please send me an email for further information.

Carsten

[shangway]

A question to the shortcut keys. Are they read from the file as well?
Example:
'ffnenimVollbildmodus1.Caption = Öffnen im &Vollbildmodus...'
opens in full screen by pressing "V".
Does it do the same when I change the file entry to
'ffnenimVollbildmodus1.Caption = Open in &Full Screen Mode'
or is the shortcut key also changed to "F"?

--- shangway

[Mirko]

Howdie!

The Shortcut will always be changed to the letter after the &. If You like to keep it You have to write
... = &V open in full screen mode

But as You can't reach more than one label at the same time the letters may change. It doesn't metter if You use the E for "Track / Exit Zusi" and "Timetable / Load Timetable in Editor"
You only have to take care that no two enties in one menu have the same letter. Otherwise Zusi takes the upper entry with that letter if I remember my Delphi-lessons correctly.

Mirko

[Carsten Hölscher]

Oliver Lamm will translate it - and he can begin after opening his mailbox

Thanks!
Carsten

[Roland Ziegler]

Delphi-lessons

Nothing to do with Delphi. That's classic Windows, presumably been so ever since the 16 bit era.

And it's called an "Access Key", not a "Shortcut Key". Here's an extract from the Win32 SDK docs:

Menu Access Keys
The standard keyboard interface for menus can be enhanced by adding access keys (mnemonics) to menu items. An access key is an underlined letter in the text of a menu item. When a menu is active, the user can select a menu item by pressing the key that corresponds to the item's underlined letter. The user makes the menu bar active by pressing the ALT key to highlight the first item on the menu bar. A menu is active when it is displayed.

To create an access key for a menu item, precede any character in the item's text string with an ampersand. For example, the text string "&Move" causes the system to underline the letter "M".

Menu Shortcut Keys
In addition to having an access key, a menu item can have a shortcut key associated with it. A shortcut key is different from an access key, because the menu does not have to be active for the shortcut key to work. Also, an access key is always associated with a menu item, while an shortcut key is usually (but does not have to be) associated with a menu item.

Text that identifies the shortcut key is added to the menu-item text string. The shortcut text appears to the right of the menu item name, after a backslash and tab character (\t). For example, "&Close\tAlt+F4" represents a Close command with the ALT+F4 key combination as its shortcut key and with the letter "C" as its access key. For more information, see Keyboard Accelerators.

[Oliver Lamm]

Oliver Lamm will translate it - and he can begin after opening his mailbox

Just got it
I'll start with the translation probably today ...

Oli

[Mirko]

Howdie Roland!

Maybe it is independent of Delphi - but I only used this function when writing Delphi programs at the university.

Mirko

[stuvar]

Wird man darüber auch Unicode-Sprachen anzeigen können? Als Beispiel hier japanisch:

電車 oder 新大坂 um mal zwei Beispiele zu nennen.

English:

will it be possible to use Unicode lettern in these files? as example:

電車 or 新大坂

[Sven Jähnig]

I'm just imagining Zusi in Japanese. Would be nice, but the most Menus would be in Jengrisch, I think (The File-Menu is "Fairu" titled in Japan).
But for what reason should Zusi be translated into Japanese? I don't think that there are so much Japanese Zusi-Fans.
BTW: Do you learn Japanese, Stuvar? I'm learning Japanese (And understood, that you've written the Japanese word for train (Densha), in the second word I've only understood the last 2 Kanji - Oosaka), but I think, a translation of Zusi to Japanese is a little too difficult for me .

Sven

[stuvar]

The 2nd word means Shin-Osaka which is the name of the Osaka Shinkansen station. As for your question: I don't think that there ist a need for it now, but its always better to ask before work is done. If you ask to change it afterwards it would be double of work to change all.
Somewhere someone had said, that Zusi 3 will support every languages, evan japanese so I asked if Carsten is aware of that problem.

[Roland Ziegler]

Is there a market? Is Unicode a requirement, a "nice to have" or simply a matter of curiosity?

The Windows environment supports Unicode for ages, some, most or may be all of the SDK APIs tools provide, allow or even require 16bit strings. Tools for string conversion are available. The MS development suite allows for Unicode settings on project level. I would expect that the Delphi higher layers will offer similar capabilities.

Standardised languages like C++ have standardised wide string support (in the C++ Standard Lib, formerly STL). Presumably Delphi Object Pascal comes up with something similar.

However, it's not a 1:1 or better a 1:2 compatibility. Simple byte arrays for text no longer work, which may effect text processing throughout a whole lot of heritage code. And Unicode files, for example, are binary files. They introduce ugly file headers, as the users of MS Trainsim had to find out. (If you don't have MSTS create a "marker" file with Streckenkonverter and have a look at it.) After that experience with the SK I would rather save the time required to port a Zusi application to Unicode for something more useful.

[Carsten Hölscher]

btw, is anyone translating zusi.exe and the remaining editors?

Carsten

[Oliver Lamm]

I've got most of the other programs translated, but at the moment I'm short of time. If it isn't that urgent I'll continue after my final exam in july.

Oli