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Environment: Windows NT 4, Windows 2000
The support for multiple languages within one application has always been a drag, for NT 4.0 and Window 2000 I have fond a simple solution. Unfortunatley this does not work for Windows 95 or 98 🙁
1. Add all the resources (dialogs, strings, menues etc.) in all of the desired languages in your project.
2. Add a menu, or language selection dialog in your project which calls the code shown below.
3. Thats it.
// switch language to german
::SetThreadLocal(MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_GERMAN,SUBLANG_DEFAULT),SORT_DEFAULT));
...
// or back to english
::SetThreadLocal(MAKELCID(MAKELANGID(LANG_ENGLISH,SUBLANG_DEFAULT),SORT_DEFAULT));
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Date Posted: June 20, 1999
