[ros-dev] Hardcoded strings

[Magnus Olsen]

you need have knowlges mage whole program unicode safe and ansic safe.
some part of reactos that using hardcode string are often coding as ansic or
Wchar and u need make sure the whole functions can take care of both.

it is not only to remove one string u need look at the whole program before
u do it. if u want try remove hardcode string then u need have basic
knowlges of programing and lite more.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Murphy, Ged (Bolton)" <MurphyG at cmpbatteries.co.uk>
To: <fRy2oo5 at gmail.com>; "'ReactOS Development List'" <ros-dev at reactos.org>
Sent: den 20 December 2005 13:51
Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Hardcoded strings


> David Hinz wrote:
>
> > Somewhere in reactos/lib/cabinet I found sourcecode calling functions
> > like err, and the strings it gave to these functions looked like
> > something output to the user e.g. errormessages like file * couldn't
> > be found or something like this, so I wondered, if this should be
> > translatable.
> > As I don't know what kind of stings should be translatable, I
> > just asked.
>
> You need to understand the context in which the message is used. If it's
> system debug message, it will normally be hardcoded in. If it's a generic
> Win32 error message it should be picked up with FormatMessage. These will
be
> output in the users preferred language via the LANG_SYSTEM_DEFAULT or
> LANG_USER_DEFAULT flags. Then you have simple MessageBox outputs which can
> be picked out of a resource file, but are generally hardcoded in. There
are
> many other situations and usages, but I'll stop there.
>
> As already said, becoming a programmer is the only real way of
understanding
> it all.
>
> > Well, you say I should learn some things like structures of resource
> > files, do you have any links for me?
>
> There are thousands of C tutorials on the net. Here are a few:
> Tutorials : http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
> Forgers win32 : http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
>
>
> Everyone has their favourite books, but these are probably the most
popular
> for learning C and Windows programming:
> K & R :
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131103628/qid=1135081344/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs
> _b_2_1/104-6581600-7986334?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
> C Primer Plus :
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672326965/qid=1135081234/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1
> /104-6581600-7986334?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
> Petzold :
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/157231995X/qid=1135081418/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1
> /104-6581600-7986334?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
>
>
> Have fun,
> Ged.
>
>
>
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