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jetAudio Developement / Building an Language Pack for jetAudio
Many users around the word are waiting for different language packs ! If you want to build an jetAudio language pack, read this before:
- You need Visual C++ to create an new Language Pack !
- Download the jetAudio language SDK here
- After you have created and tested the language pack, please pack it with winrar
and upload this pack to the jetAudio Upload Area
HOWTO:
Create Localized Resource DLLs for JetAudio
(The
following procedures are for Visual C++ users)
If
you want to modify English resources
directly with resource editors (such as Visual Localizer or Resource
Tuner), edit *.ENU files with the editor,
then change the extension of the
files. (refer to LangDef.txt)
* If you have already developed language
pack previously, please check
Changes.txt file before you continue.
1) Unzip download JetAudioLDK.zip to any folder
(for example, c:\JetAudioLDK)
2) Run Visual C++ 6.0
3) Open JetAudioLang.dsw from Visual C++
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4) You can find several Projects including
JetAudio_Res, JFACDRd_Res,
etc. In this guide, we will show how to
localize resouces for JetAudio_Res
project only.
5) Select JetAudio_Res
project from Workspace view.
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6) From the Project menu, click Settings
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7) In the Project Settings dialog box,
select all projects by using Ctrl/Shift key.
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8) In the Resources tab (Picture 4), change the preprocessor definitions
AFX_TARG_ENU to
AFX_TARG_XXX, where XXX
is the a letter specifier
for the language.
For
example, FRA for French.
For more information about language letter
specifier, please refer to LangDef.txt file
NOTE: The preprocessor definitions are comma separated with no spaces
between definitions
9) In the Language combo-box (Picture 4), select the language used in the
resource.
10) You should change the name of your
DLLs to identify them. Use language-specific file extensions to note the
locale.
For example, if your language is French,
the name of your DLL should be JetAudio.FRA
Language-specific file extension is same
with language letter defined in LangDef.txt file.
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11) To do this, Select the Link tab from the Project settings
dialog box. (Picture 5)
In the in the Settings For combo-box, highlight the configuration for which you
want to change the DLL file name.
Make sure Category is set to General
and specify the output file name in the edit box under Output File Name.
12) In the ResourceView
workspace, open each folder and, with the CTRL key pressed, select all of English the resources in
the project.
For example, your selections should
include VS_VERSION_INFO for the Version and IDD_ABOUTBOX for the Dialog.
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13) You can safely remove resources of
other languages, but this is not optional.
Even if you don’t remove resources of
other languages, they will not be included in DLL.
14) Select View - Properties menu
(Picture 7), and set the language to the appropriate language. (Picture 8)
You should now have a complete set of
resources for anther language.
The resources, however, must be
translated.
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15) Now you can translate Dialog, Menu, String Table
resources The default font name of dialog boxes is
"MS Shell Dlg".
Normally, you don't need to change the
font name because "MS Shell Dlg" is not a real font, and Windows chooses the
appropriate font for "MS Shell Dlg" automatically
when running. However, it may be needed to specify the font explicitly for some
languages. You can translate Version resource also, but DON'T
change version number ! f you change version number, jetAudio may
not find your DLL. jetAudio checks two left-most digits of version number. for example, if version of jetAudio is
5.1.x.x, your DLL's version should be 5.1.x.
16) Select Build - Batch Build
menu, then press Build
to build your DLL.
17) Now you will have localized DLLs in the “..\Binary\Release\” folder.
18) Just copy the DLLs to the folder JetAudio installed.
19) You can check if JetAudio could find your DLL from Properties – Display – Language dialog
box.
20) If you want to make installation pack, please refer to the following
registry key.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/COWON/Jet-Audio]
InstallPath_Main" =
"...."
The above registry stores install path of jetAudio.
Please make your installation pack to copy your DLLs by using the above
registry key/value. |
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