Issue while creating .mui files Can somebody help me?

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Issue while creating .mui files Can somebody help me?

Rohan Pande 445

Hi, I was going through this example of providing a string in localized using the MUI way but I am facing few issues while creating mui files. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/creating-a-multilingual-user-interface-application This step "Splitting the Various Language Resource Modules: Creating the Files" was failing for me when I was separating out the second resource file. Can somebody help me?

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Minxin Yu 13,506 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-01-25T02:12:36.8433333+00:00

Can you provide your detailed steps to help us reproduce your problem? And is HelloModule_fr_fre misspelled? HelloModule_fr_fr.dll
Rohan Pande 445 Reputation points

2024-02-03T04:39:00.42+00:00

Sorry, I missed this @Minxin Yu .

First, I started with hardcoding string step: There I was able to create a rc file for en-us.

Later, when I tried to Create a new project, for French I tried to create a resource file but by default, it was coming in english UK/ english US. I wasn't able to change to French properly.

Then inside the rc file, there is a language keyword where by default, it comes as shown below:

LANGUAGAGE 9,1

I don't know exactly what is the code for french over here. So, I tried to change this lines:

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_FRA)

LANGUAGE LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH

By this, the rc file became to french verified this by looking at string table. Is this the correct way? or is there a better way? Please let me know.

But when I built this project it was showing fr_fre.dll for French which made something different from the sample project.

And I moved ahead to the next step with these two languages for now, then created a DoReverseMuiLoc.rcconfig file with the same data that is there in example.

Then moved with splitting the resources, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/creating-a-multilingual-user-interface-application#splitting-the-various-language-resource-modules-an-overview

and for en-us I was able to create the mui file but same I wasn't able to create it for french.

These are the steps.

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Minxin Yu 13,506 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-01-25T02:12:36.8433333+00:00

Can you provide your detailed steps to help us reproduce your problem? And is HelloModule_fr_fre misspelled? HelloModule_fr_fr.dll
Rohan Pande 445 Reputation points

2024-02-03T04:39:00.42+00:00

Sorry, I missed this @Minxin Yu .

First, I started with hardcoding string step: There I was able to create a rc file for en-us.

Later, when I tried to Create a new project, for French I tried to create a resource file but by default, it was coming in english UK/ english US. I wasn't able to change to French properly.

Then inside the rc file, there is a language keyword where by default, it comes as shown below:

LANGUAGAGE 9,1

I don't know exactly what is the code for french over here. So, I tried to change this lines:

#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_FRA)

LANGUAGE LANG_FRENCH, SUBLANG_FRENCH

By this, the rc file became to french verified this by looking at string table. Is this the correct way? or is there a better way? Please let me know.

But when I built this project it was showing fr_fre.dll for French which made something different from the sample project.

And I moved ahead to the next step with these two languages for now, then created a DoReverseMuiLoc.rcconfig file with the same data that is there in example.

Then moved with splitting the resources, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/intl/creating-a-multilingual-user-interface-application#splitting-the-various-language-resource-modules-an-overview

and for en-us I was able to create the mui file but same I wasn't able to create it for french.

These are the steps.

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RLWA32 49,551

I put together a small demo using VS2019 based on the MS documentation. You can download it from https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmnqrCFBv4nDhEH1o6eoPMTJSUAe?e=2X2xX0 Remember to unblock the zip file before you extract the contents. The demo creates MUI resources for English(US), English(UK) and French(France). The difference between the two English resource DLLs is the text of the string so they can be distinguished from each other. I also included a console application demo that shows how to load an indirect string from the created DLL. In my tests the demo properly loaded the correct string based on the system's language setting. FYI, there is nothing in the MS sample about changing the language in the resource files.

Rohan Pande 445 Reputation points

2024-02-04T04:01:53.22+00:00

Will go through it and let you know. Thanks a lot for sharing the project @RLWA32
RLWA32 49,551 Reputation points

2024-02-06T07:40:38.7166667+00:00

@Rohan Pande, Have you had a chance to try the MUI demo?

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