Title:			RESFIND
Author:			Olaf Krumnow
			Herbert zur Nedden
Version:		2.00
Title From:		Documentation
Author From:		Documentation
Version From:		Documentation
Supplier:		Olaf Krumnow
Date:			28/01/94
Keywords:               Software development tools ; Environment managers ;
                        Resource managers
Shareware:		No
Machine:		Archimedes
Operating system:	RISCOS
Memory requirements:	
Peripherals needed:	
Other s/ware needed:	
Directory:		micros/arch/riscos/a/a231
Date mounted/updated:	11/02/94
File names:		a231.arc
Unarchived files:	21
Unarchived size:	192 Kbytes
Omissions:		
See also:		

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Acquiring the package:

Download the uuencoded file and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help"
file in arch/riscos/tools for further info).


Description:

Acorn supports multilingual progamming by the MSGTRANS module. Quite a few
programmes use it for the messages of their programs. There are even several
(british) programs having messages in other languages than English (mainly
in German). Despite this I know of only one application (except those using
ResFind) adapting to the configured language automatically - Impression. For
the end user this can't be considered the way to go since he or she has to
do some work to activate the messages in the right language - even if the
language is supported. Here ResFind comes in. It tries to activate the
language fitting best. ResFind certainly isn't clairvoyant but on a
reasonably configured computer it should work just fine.