Project description: Languages tab

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Project description: Languages tab

Overview

The description window of project is used to configure several elements of your project. This window includes the following tabs:

The "Project" tab that is used to type the main project information
The "Analysis" tab that is used to associate an analysis with the project and/or with a UML model
The "Files" tab that is used to type information about the data files managed by the application (only if the project is linked to an analysis).
The "Live data" tab that is used to configure the display of data (coming from the data files) in the different editors.
The "Languages" tab that is used to configure the different languages handled by the project as well as the linguistic options that will be used for each language.
The "Style" tab that is used to choose the theme of skin template and the custom style sheet, and to customize the print preview. You also have the ability to configure the size of screens.
The "Group" tab that is used to manage the teamwork (developer groupware or SCM).
The "Options" tab that is used to configure the options for updating, saving and synchronizing the templates. This tab is also used to enable the strict mode and to define the programming charter.The "Options" tab that is used to configure the options for updating, saving and synchronizing the templates. This tab is also used to enable the strict mode and to define the code style.
The "Advanced" tab that is used to manage the use of "Reports & Queries", the AAFs and the application lock.
The "Compilation" tab that is used to configure the compilation options.
Versions 22 and later
The "Telemetry" tab that is used to configure the telemetry options for the project.
This option is not available.
New in version 22
The "Telemetry" tab that is used to configure the telemetry options for the project.
This option is not available.
The "Telemetry" tab that is used to configure the telemetry options for the project.
This option is not available.

"Languages" tab

Project languages

This tab is used to manage the characteristics of the project languages.

To add a new language into the project:

Click the "Add" button.
In the window that is displayed, select the different languages supported by the project.
Remarks:
- If the requested language is not displayed in the list, you have the ability to select an additional language (the additional languages are displayed in the lower part of the window).
- Versions 21 and later
  To name an additional language, click the requested language and type its name in the "Name of custom languages" area.
  New in version 21
  To name an additional language, click the requested language and type its name in the "Name of custom languages" area.
  To name an additional language, click the requested language and type its name in the "Name of custom languages" area.
Validate. The different languages are added into the list of project languages.

Remarks:

The selected languages will be proposed when entering information about the different elements that can be translated (captions of controls, menu options, help message associated with a control, ...). The display order of these languages is identical to the one of the list of project languages.
Versions 21 and later
This order can be modified via the arrow buttons found below the list of project languages.
New in version 21
This order can be modified via the arrow buttons found below the list of project languages.
This order can be modified via the arrow buttons found below the list of project languages.
When modifying the project languages, the modifications will be automatically taken into account:
- any new object created in the different editors (Window, Report, Control, ...).
- any element opened in the different editors (Window, Report, ...).

The default language (identified by the number "1") corresponds to the language used by default at run time. To modify it, use the popup menu of the language that will be used by default.

Linguistic options

The display of the numeric data found in the project (number, currency, date, ...) can be configured in each language supported by the project.

The parameters used by default are the ones defined in the linguistic options of Windows (accessible from the Windows control panel).

To configure these options:

Select the requested language in the left section of screen.
Select the tab corresponding to the element to configure (number, currency, ...).
Modify the requested parameters and validate.

Remark: A button is used to reinitialize the parameters with the default values.

When creating an edit control or a table column that displays numeric data (number, currency, date, time, duration, ...), the input mask used will be the mask defined in the language options of project. This option is available in the windows and pages.

At run time, when an edit control or a table column has a mask "Defined by the project", the input mask and/or the display mask will automatically adapt according to the options selected in the project for the language displayed at run time.

Remark: The "Various" option is used to define:

the writing direction.
the character set used.
the WDM translation file.

Versions 18 and later

The following linguistic options are supported:

Decimal separator (number and currency)
Thousand separator (number and currency)
Currency symbol
Time format
Date format
Day and Month
Unit for the file size

New in version 18

The following linguistic options are supported:

Decimal separator (number and currency)
Thousand separator (number and currency)
Currency symbol
Time format
Date format
Day and Month
Unit for the file size

The following linguistic options are supported:

Decimal separator (number and currency)
Thousand separator (number and currency)
Currency symbol
Time format
Date format
Day and Month
Unit for the file size