New feature suggestion : Allow Temporary Items in labels ofActionkeys and ACTIONBARs

[Deskin, Bob]

I'd like to follow up on this. The idea is to have an application that can be used in multiple languages. A probably not complete list of things that need to be considered in screens are:
 
- error messages
- screen titles
- field and other labels
- function key labels
- menu labels and menuitem labels
- month names (from the dictionary)
- decimal character (from the dictionary)
- numeric item formatting
- date formatting
- collating sequences (if the data is non-English)
- upshift/downshift sequences (if the data is non-English)
 
I'm sure there are more. 
 
While it would be very nice to prompt the user for a language and proceed accordingly, things like month names and messages make this difficult. We usually suggest that there is a compiled dictionary and application for each language and that the language code be specified before the application is actually started.
 
If there was just one or two things preventing an easy multi-language screen, then we could see how difficult it was to add that feature, but if there are many things or after this one, there'll be another... Well, I don't want to do something piecemeal.
 
So how do you solve the above?
 
Bob
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Ken Langendock
	Sent: July 24, 2007 8:23 AM
	To: 'Daniel Rodríguez'; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
	Subject: RE: New feature suggestion : Allow Temporary Items in labels ofActionkeys and ACTIONBARs
	
	
	I agree with this one.
	Or even let it "steal" the label from a dictionary Item?
	 
	As it is now we have 95% of our function keys in copy modules and I have to wrap CC's around them. The problem is magnified for the ones in the individual screens.
	 
	@if Spanish
	KEY 1 LEVEL 1 LOCAL LABEL "Ayuda" ACTION DESIGNER HELP
	@elsif French
	
	KEY 1 LEVEL 1 LOCAL LABEL "Aide" ACTION DESIGNER HELP
	@else
	
	KEY 1 LEVEL 1 LOCAL LABEL "Help" ACTION DESIGNER HELP
	@endif
	 
	it would be nice to be able to use a variable or a label from the dictionary.
	
	KEY 1 LEVEL 1 LOCAL LABEL OF MyElementForHelp ACTION DESIGNER HELP
	 
	Ken
________________________________

	From: powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+ken.langendock=rogers.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Rodríguez
	Sent: July 24, 2007 6:57 AM
	To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
	Subject: New feature suggestion : Allow Temporary Items in labels of Actionkeys and ACTIONBARs
	
	
	Our aplicaction has been developed to work in multiple languages (Spanish, English, French, Polish,...).
	
	All the titles and field's labels has been replaced with temporary items but it is not possible to do the same with the keys and actionbars. 
	
	Something like this would be nice:
	
	KEY 1 LEVEL 1 LOCAL LABEL TLBL_DELETE ACTION DELETE
	
	ACTIONMENU  LABEL TLBL_ACTIONS 
	   MENUITEM LABEL TLBL_ENTRY ACTION ENTRY
	
	
	Kind regards,
	
	Daniel Rodriguez
 
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