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kerk
January 6th, 2004, 16:23
Good day. Big thanks for Olly it's really nice How you think about support language packs? Of corse i understand real professional not need it... but for newbie as me it's good. English-it's international language, but seeeng native language just as part interface pretty. How i can add my own language?

(Without reversing please, i hope we are have different way

focht
January 7th, 2004, 12:58
Greetings,

well application localization is a good point - but in my opinion should be given a low priority on TODO list (long term issue).

If i look at ollydbg, most string literals referenced from code reside in .data.
Multilanguage imposes that you load/resolve resources dynamically at runtime depending on the current locale.
There are several strategies to implement this behaviour:
- putting resources into separate resource dlls.
- use text files which map identifiers to strings (while the default/neutral locale is compiled into the executable itself).
- ....

In short: You can't do it right now until ollydbg implements some sort of resource manager to load/resolve the text strings, menus, .... at runtime.

Regards,

A. Focht

kerk
January 7th, 2004, 13:59
I think text files is best chouse, as very easy add localization. Yes, you absolutely right for giving localization low priority...but localization do it Olly more popular.This mean more friendly interfase (smaller time for do it task), may be more users, more knowlege and tricks, more plugins...in future

Of course,i can do it with some programm.. but always for new version need new patch, and old usually not working and it's unofficial. Often occur in duplicate with errors. But with built-in support old localization working fine in new version, may be need translate else 1-3%

...
May be i'm wrong: if this feature really need only for me - please just forget about it

With respect, Kerk