Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / July 2006

Steve,

   Mainly what I'm missing is the ability to read in a resource file
with a set of strings in it and then use LoadResString to populate my
text fields with strings from the proper language.

   Also, there doesn't seem to be any way of determining what the
system language is.

   But I think I've worked around the problem, and, surprisingly, it
seems to have been fairly easy. For what we're doing, I have to have a
native background app running that "communicates" with my AddIn
(through the very low-tech method of creating files whose names serve
as commands that my AddIn periodically looks for.) I've used that
mechanism to have the native app figure out what language the system is
in, and tell the AddIn which language file to read in. Then I wrote my
own simple version of LoadResString to maintain some compatibility with
the Windows AddIn code.

   Only problem now is that Line Input # doesn't seem to be stopping
at a carriage return when it encounters one. And other string
segmenting functions don't seem to be behaving as expected. Hopefully
that won't be too hard to work around. Perhaps I'm just
misunderstanding how they're supposed to work.

...Eric...