PC World 2002 July & August/PCWorld_2002-07-08_cd.bin/Software/Topware/hackman/_SETUP.1/Checklng.txt

Text File | 1998-11-21 | 2KB | 41 lines

About Checklng Tool
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Unfortunately, I encountered some problems especially with missing menu items
or some strings that seemed to have a wrong ID due to some mistakes I made when
translating "english.lng" to "german.lng".

I wrote a small program using Turbo Pascal 6.0 (the quickest way), which is
able to read a ".lng" file and check, whether there are some IDs missing or
entered incorrectly. This software is called "CHECKLNG.EXE" and is included
in my mail both as an executable, and as the source code. With CHECKLNG, I
found out, that I had unintentionally deleted a source line of "english.lng"
and because of that, I didn't translate it into german. I suppose you can
imagine the consequences of an ID missing.
Please feel free to check it out, offer it to other people willing to translate
Hackman, or do whatever you like with it.

Running Checklng with no parameters shows information on using the file.

Zweistein 1998


Now that I wanted to translate Hackman 3.1 into german, I encountered some
problems that could not be found using CHECKLNG V1.0. So I had to update
this program a little bit. It can now be called with two parameters, e.g.:

CHECKLNG ENGLISH.LNG GERMAN.LNG <RETURN>

This will cause the check of both files, producing ENGLISH.STT and GERMAN.STT
as the usual statistics files. In fact, these files are expanded by a new
table that shows the text items that do not hold a text (e.g. 260, "").
In addition, a third file named PROBLEMS.TXT is produced, which shows
errors and differences between the two files. Read this one first in order
to find the problem quicker! Be aware that CHECKLNG will not be able to
realize that "dsfgsdu" is not the correct translation for "Files", but that's
not what I wrote it for.

Good Luck,
  Zweistein