Edit Language
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In this version of RK, english, german and french languages are
available. But it is very simple for you to translate RK into
any other language. The only one you need is MS-Excel.

In the Profiles.dat folder youŽll find the file called
language.xls. Doubleclick this file to open it with Excel.
Now you can choose the next free column to enter the translations
into your language.
First enter the language in row no. 2. Overwrite the cell which
includes the text "free" or "free (enter new language here)" and
enter your language Italian", "Spainish" or what ever.
Now it is your job to translate more than 550 entries :-) .

Since v5.0.02 there is a special support for developers of trans-
lations included to make the translations more easy. A problem
was that it was difficult to find all requesters in RK to check
if the new words looks good. Now each (message) requester has an
ID. This ID is listed in the excel table in a column called "ID".
With the new command ME.CTRL.ID each requester can be opend by
entering this ID number.
A button with this new command is prepared. Open Control Center
profile and click the Exit/ID button in the middle of the profile
with a right mouse button click.
There is also a new command called ME.CTRL.REFRESH. This command
will offer to refresh the language so it is not required to
restart RK after each changing of language entries.

While you are translating of course you will save your work from
time to time in Excel format. It is correct to do this.
But to offer RK your translation it is required to save the file
as a text file called language.txt. You can choose this save
option from the combobox of Excel save requester. It is important
to choose "TAB" as separator for the columns. Excel will offer
this point for you.

When you start RK now you will find your new language in the
combobox of the preferences requester. Also the language popmenu
will be automaticly expanded to the new language. You can select
your new language now and check the translations without the need
to restart RK. If RK finds a new language but is missing single
translations of entries, it use automaticly the english one
instead. Therefore you never lost the orientation and future ex-
pansions of RK will not leave blank user controls.

I am using Excel2000. I am not sure if there are problems to try
the translations with a version smaller 97. Hope it will work.

Of course I am very interested in your translation!
I would include it into the RemoteKeys package and will make a
"Thank-You" entry in the readme file and on my website. I can also
make a little promo for your website.

I am looking forward to get many many translations :-) !
Thx!

PS. Command descriptions which are shown in Keys-Edit requester
can also be translated (>150 entries). These comments are written
in \manual\command list.txt and RK takes access to these infor-
mations. The path can be changed in translation.xls therefore each
language can work with its own text file. In case of German, the
command list is saved in the manual\german folder.

* Pls no commercial offers who wants to earn money with translations!
