Re: Multilingual Screens

Use a message file and then all your error message will be external to the
program.  In your DDS you reference a message ID which is contained in the
proper messsage file.  Then you can have multiple message files (on for each
language) and use a *libl to control which language message file the user
gets.
HTH.
Carl
Carl Galgano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris.Chambers@v2music.com <Chris.Chambers@v2music.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 1:04 PM
Subject: Multilingual Screens


>
>
>I am constructing a system which needs the screens to be presented to each
>user in the langauage of their choice(eg English, German, French, Italian
>and Greek).
>
>I am initially exploring this using message files via the ERRMSGID and
>MSGCON keywords in the DDS. But it seems one has to designate the exact
>message file at compilation and so compile the DDS once for each language
>used which is a pain and means one has to retain multiple libraries of
>screens.
>
>Perhaps the COBOL programs could populate the texts on screen using a
>different msg file via OVRDBF at run time but what about the time overhead
>and the normal DDS ERRMSG processing would be lost.
>
>Anyone got any experience in this area? Any ideas or tips ideas gratefully
>appreciated.
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>Chris
>
>
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