Re: [ros-dev] Hardcoded strings

[Magnus Olsen]

you need have knowlges mage whole program unicode safe and ansic safe.
some part of reactos that using hardcode string are often coding as ansic or
Wchar and u need make sure the whole functions can take care of both.

it is not only to remove one string u need look at the whole program before
u do it. if u want try remove hardcode string then u need have basic
knowlges of programing and lite more.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Murphy, Ged (Bolton)" <MurphyG(a)cmpbatteries.co.uk>
To: <fRy2oo5(a)gmail.com>om>; "'ReactOS Development List'"
<ros-dev(a)reactos.org>
Sent: den 20 December 2005 13:51
Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Hardcoded strings


>   David Hinz wrote:
>
> >   Somewhere in reactos/lib/cabinet I found
> > sourcecode calling functions
> >  like err, and the strings it gave to these functions looked like
> >  something output to the user e.g. errormessages like file * couldn't
> >  be found or something like this, so I wondered, if this should be
> >  translatable.
> >  As I don't know what kind of stings should be translatable, I
> >  just asked. 
>  You need to understand the context in which the message is used. If it's
>  system debug message, it will normally be hardcoded in. If it's a generic
>  Win32 error message it should be picked up with FormatMessage. These will 
be
>   output in the users preferred language via the
> LANG_SYSTEM_DEFAULT or
>  LANG_USER_DEFAULT flags. Then you have simple MessageBox outputs which can
>  be picked out of a resource file, but are generally hardcoded in. There 
are
>   many other situations and usages, but I'll stop
> there.
>
>  As already said, becoming a programmer is the only real way of 
understanding
>   it all.
>
> >   Well, you say I should learn some things like
> > structures of resource
> >  files, do you have any links for me? 
>  There are thousands of C tutorials on the net. Here are a few:
>  Tutorials : http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
>  Forgers win32 : http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
>
>
>  Everyone has their favourite books, but these are probably the most 
popular
>   for learning C and Windows programming:
>  K & R :
>  
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131103628/qid=1135081344/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs
>  
> _b_2_1/104-6581600-7986334?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
>  C Primer Plus :
>  
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672326965/qid=1135081234/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1
>  
> /104-6581600-7986334?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
>  Petzold :
>  
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/157231995X/qid=1135081418/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1
>  
> /104-6581600-7986334?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
>
>  Have fun,
>  Ged.
>
>
>
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