Handling additional resources

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I have just uploaded a new version (4.65.0061) with a new tab to show additional resources in a project.
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The purpose of this feature is to handle resource strings which a developer has added to a project independently of the Add-In. The real benefit is that the texts can be exported to an Excel file along with all other strings, and given to a translator.

Note: At present this feature is not available for unmanaged C++ projects.

Internally, the Add-In handles two cases, which I will refer to as global and local resource files (based on the directory names used in ASP projects).

Global resource files are ones which are not associated with any other component. These files are relatively simple, because the Add-In simply shows all of the string resources.

Local resource files are ones with the same base name as another component and which contain local resources for that component. Handling these files is more difficult, because the Add-In has to filter out the resources which are already shown in the Controls grid, so that it only show the additional resource strings. In fact, it usually filters out all of them.

I have added two new options to the setup dialog to:

  • enable or disable the feature
  • enable or disable handling of local resource files

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There is no particular reason to disable this feature, unless it turns out that it contains some big error. wink

Note also, that this feature is strictly for handling additional resource strings which are already present in the project. There is no command to add new resource strings via the Add-In.

Phil

Thanks for listening Phil!

This addon is quickly becoming essential for every developer that has to a localise any project of considerable size. The latest builds are looking solid and feel a bit faster/snappier. (Maybe thats because of the new tree control)

I cannot provide any useful feedback at this point other than it seems to work without really using the feature.

Regards, Tom