Foreign languages

[clint100]

My customer has asked that I come up w something that will interchange the english text in my vi to a foreign language.  He said something about including an *.ini file.  Not sure I have a full grasp on what he wants.  I think what he was getting at was to create the vi in english and include an ini file that would some how convert it to the language in the ini file.  ie...english charaters to say Japaneese...This would include labels on the front panel as well as the error codes if any are generated.   Would this be a daunting task??

[hicksc · Accepted solution]

Hi Clint

There's some documentation on this included in the help files of most versions of LabVIEW.

The basic idea is to export all strings from the VI into a VI string file, translate the file and then re-import the strings to the VI. This would be a little daunting but it's perfectly possible. 

Does that help?

Kind Regards

[clint100]

I'll give it a look...thanks for the quick response.  My next question would be, w/o looking at the help, how do you "gather" ALL the strings from your vi??  Are they stored some where?

[clint100]

Never mind. I looked at the Help and it looks like it explains it.  Again, thanks.

[clint100]

PERFECT!!!!!!!  Does exactly what I think they want!!!

[hicksc]

Glad to hear it!