BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Internationalization View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Michael Fritz Guest Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 6:00 am    Post subject: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Hi, I'm using ggassemble to merge an existing mo file into my executable. This runs fine even when switching language at runtime. When using UPX to pack my executable the program stops working. This means I cannot switch languages anymore. However no crash or something like this. It seems that dxgettext does not know about any different languages anymore. Any hints? Michael Back to top johnnie Guest Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:34 am    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Michael Fritz wrote: Quote: Hi, I'm using ggassemble to merge an existing mo file into my executable. This runs fine even when switching language at runtime. When using UPX to pack my executable the program stops working. This means I cannot switch languages anymore. However no crash or something like this. It seems that dxgettext does not know about any different languages anymore. Any hints? Michael It is clearly an incompatability of the way the UPX is working and has nothing to do with either internationalization or delphi in general. I suggest you try the same question on the B.P.D.NativeApi group for a better chance to receive an answer. Back to top Michael Fritz Guest Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 11:46 am    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Quote: It is clearly an incompatability of the way the UPX is working and has nothing to do with either internationalization or delphi in general. May be, however I think posting this in b.p.d.nativeapi will return the questions what is ggassemble or how does ggassemble or Dxgettext work, search for translated strings in exe file etc. So posting this Q here where Lars (the author of Dxgettext) frequently visits is more appropriate, I think. cu, Michael Back to top Lars B. Dybdahl Guest Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Michael Fritz wrote: Quote: I'm using ggassemble to merge an existing mo file into my executable. This runs fine even when switching language at runtime. When using UPX to pack my executable the program stops working. The assemble program simply appends the translation files to the exe file. Afterwards, it appends a list of translations to the .exe file, too, and finally it finds a special (and long) sequence of bytes inside the .exe file, where it writes the position of the translation file list. When your program runs, it detects that this position has been written to the .exe file, and then goes to that position in the .exe file to read the list of translations. This is the part that fails when you pack the .exe file with UPX. Quote: This means I cannot switch languages anymore. However no crash or something like this. When the system cannot find its translations, it runs using the default language. Unfortunately, there are only two options: 1) Don't use UPX 2) Don't embed the translations in the .exe file. If anybody can think of a method that would allow UPX to coexist with such translations, please let me know. Lars. -- Freelance programmer Denmark Free GNU gettext for Delphi i18n/localization tool: http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Back to top johnnie Guest Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 9:15 am    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Quote: If anybody can think of a method that would allow UPX to coexist with such translations, please let me know. As far as I'm aware of in order to make this work you will need to avoid to go to the file at runtime this leaves you with only the choice to use Resources inside the exe to hold the translation. I remember that I come across a few resource editing components in the past I just do not remember the author or the site at the moment I'll take a look tonginh and if you are interested I'll post a link here. regards johnnie. Back to top Lars B. Dybdahl Guest Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe johnnie wrote: Quote: As far as I'm aware of in order to make this work you will need to avoid to go to the file at runtime this leaves you with only the choice to use Resources inside the exe to hold the translation. I intentionally avoided that because that would lead to drastically reduced performance. Resources can be painfully slow to fetch. But now that you say it, it could be an option, and therefore I added your suggestion to our RFE list. Lars. -- Freelance programmer Denmark Free GNU gettext for Delphi i18n/localization tool: http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Back to top johnnie Guest Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Lars B. Dybdahl wrote: Quote: johnnie wrote: As far as I'm aware of in order to make this work you will need to avoid to go to the file at runtime this leaves you with only the choice to use Resources inside the exe to hold the translation. I intentionally avoided that because that would lead to drastically reduced performance. Resources can be painfully slow to fetch. But now that you say it, it could be an option, and therefore I added your suggestion to our RFE list. Lars. I know what you meen also you must take in to account that there is a problem with the resource number on 16bit systems (win9x, ME). Have you tried to add the translations after the Compression? will this work? regards johnnie. Back to top Lars B. Dybdahl Guest Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 7:20 pm    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe johnnie wrote: Quote: Have you tried to add the translations after the Compression? will this work? Actually, one of the beta-versions just added the translations to the end of the .exe file, and this would work with compressed files, but it conflicted with other tools that also append stuff to the executables. But instead of changing that behaviour to the current behaviour I should have made it possible to make the user decide the method. I added that as a suggestion to the RFE. Thanks. Lars. -- Freelance programmer Denmark Free GNU gettext for Delphi i18n/localization tool: http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Back to top Michael Fritz Guest Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:05 am    Post subject: Re: Dxgettext - ggassemble.exe Quote: But instead of changing that behaviour to the current behaviour I should have made it possible to make the user decide the method. I added that as a suggestion to the RFE. Thanks. 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