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Hi,
I'm new user of TsiLang.

I have got a runtime package without form.
It has got a lot of string constants.

How can I translate them by TsiLangExpert?

Or can anybody tell me another way?

And what will be do when I use this runtime package in my project / EXE file.

Thanx for advance.

Hür Akdülger

Hello,

1) If your RT package does not contain any forms you can add to it a TDataModule and place a TsiLang component on the module. That TsiLang component will serve as a common container for all "hard-coded" strings and constants used in the .bpl. To add "hard-coded" strings to the translation data launch the Expert, click "File|Source|Without form...", and in the dialog "Translating Units without Form" select a unit and specify the data module unit which holds the TsiLang component. Similarly you can add string constants ("File|Const section|Without form...").

2) Next you need to provide a communication between the main application (.exe) and the package (.bpl), i.e., the .bpl should "know" the active language main application uses which. I would suggest the following:
if your .bpl exports some object, add to it a method, for example,

procedure TMyExportedObject.ChangeLanguage(ALangNo: Integer);
begin
Datamodule1.siLang1.ActiveLanguage := ALangNo;
end;

In the main application:
for a TsiLang component in the "OnChangeLanguage" event add call to the above method:

procedure TMainForm.siLang1ChangeLanguage(Sender: TObject);
begin
MyExternalObject.ChangeLanguage(siLang1.ActiveLanguage);
end;

After that the active language of TsiLang component in the .bpl will correspond to that in the main .exe and all strings from the .bpl will be displayed accordingly.