form in pakage

angelodiego · Post by **angelodiego** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:09 am

I have a form in a pakage inherited from one of the forms in my exe, I'd like to load the translation for the base form and then load only a separate translation for the objects added in the package, is this possible?

Post by **isiticov** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:08 pm

What do you mean under "load"? Do you mean that you want to load translations from external file at run-time? If yes, then it is not possible to load translations separately except you use MergeAllFromFile() method.

angelodiego · Post by **angelodiego** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:22 pm

The problem with merge is that, as far as I can tell, you need an original file with the translation for the form and an additional one with the the missing strings, the classname of the form in the base exe is different from the one in the package so I don't have a complete translation to start with, is it possible to force the load of translation for a different class?

Post by **isiticov** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:12 am

Unfortunately, it is not possible to enforce loading of information from different form. If you use SIL file to store translations you can just modify it by replacing form identifier in all entries and then load into another form.

angelodiego · Post by **angelodiego** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:14 am

Is there a way of translating a base form and then translate only the objects on the inherited form, inheriting the translation from the base one?

Post by **isiticov** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:49 am

If you translate the base form and don't change any translation of its controls in inherited form then it will be re-used by TsiLang. If you change any base control's translation in inherited form then you will need to re-translate base control. Also please be sure to set IsInheritedOwner=True for TsiLang on inherited form.

angelodiego · Post by **angelodiego** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:11 am

Does this work also if the translation streamed in the dfm is empty and I load everything from the sib file?

Post by **isiticov** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:47 am

No, I guess this won't work when DFM is empty and translations loaded from SIB file. When loading from SIB file TsiLang will just replace internal data with the information from SIB file. So if loading from SIB you need to be sure your SIB includes in inherited form all components translations.