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Subject: Re: [V4MD] ... on japanese Windows
Author: Denis =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9lisle?=
Posted: 2002/06/27 14:03:25
 
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Hi Christian,

This is probably only a typo in the original message, but the code
below will not work properly without a "#" in front of
"Katalog__Nummer".
Also, could the capitalization of the constant VOID have some effect
in a japanese system?
Just guessing.

Denis


Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
>
> on 6/26/02 11:36, Christian Kirchhoff at cKirchho AT directmedia .D.O.T de wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > the software I develop (with usage of Valentina) is able to open different
> > volumes (not disk drives, but editions). Every volume has it's own database
> > with different tables. An additional text file stores information about which
> > fields of certain base objects should be used to display certain text within
> > the software. This way the structure of every volume of the product can be
> > different from the others, but the software can deal with it without being
> > changed every time.
> > But there are certain fields that have to be in every base object. I check for
> > these fields, and if they can't be found, the software alerts and stops.
> > Now a costumer says he has problems running the software on Japanese Windows.
> > He gets exactly this alert message saying that there are some fields missing.
> > But running the software on a German system the fields are found.
> >
> > Here's how I check for the fields: When opening a volume, I store the field
> > names (converted to symbols) and their position in a property list, e.g.
> > [#Dateiname: 1, #Seriennummer: 2, #Bildnummer: 3, #Sanguetti: 4, #Fumagelli:
> > 5, #Kategorie: 6, #Serientitel: 7, #Jahrgang: 8, #Drucker: 9, #format: 10,
> > #Bildtitel: 11, #Beschreibung: 12, #CD__Nummer: 13, #Katalog__Nummer: 14,
> > #Erkl_ae_rung: 15]
> >
> > Then I check for the two fields that I need to be in every base object:
> > if thePropList[Katalog__Nummer] = void or thePropList[#CD__Nummer] = void then
> > alert "Fields missing."
> > halt
> > end if
> >
> > As you see, the field names do not contain any special German characters
> > (Umlauts), but only characters from A to Z and the underscore.
> >
> > Can you imagine what's going wrong on the Japanese system? Would it be enough
> > to change the country/language setting on that system?
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> As I see nobody can help you on this.
> Any success from your side?
 
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