Recent changes to Language_Support

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:00:22 -0000

--- v25
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@

 Also note that there is no option to switch language within Lima VVA. The language shown will depend on the display language setting in the operating system. If you run Lima VVA on a Windows system set to English, Lima VVA will also display in English. If you run Lima VVA on Windows set to Norwegian, you get Norwegian in Lima VVA. And although Windows does not support Faroese as a display language, you can set the Windows regional settings to Faroese, which will enable Faroese in parts of Lima VVA (drawings and reports). If the active Windows display language is not supported by Lima VVA, English will be used as the default language.

-**Tip:** For testing the various languages during development, it is a bit cumbersome to switch the Windows display language, since it requires you to log out and back in again. A convenient solution is to set up additional user accounts on your system, each configured to use a Windows display language you want to test. Then, from the main account, you can run Lima VVA as any of these users by using the command "Run as different user". One simple way to access this command is to hold down Shift while you open the context menu for the Lima VVA program file or shortcut, e.g. by right-clicking.
+**Tip:** For testing the various languages during development, it is a bit cumbersome to switch the Windows display language, since it requires you to log out and back in again. A convenient solution is to set up additional user accounts on your system, each configured to use a Windows display language you want to test. Then, from the main account, you can run Lima VVA as any of these users by using the command "Run as different user". One simple way to access this command is to hold down Shift while you open the context menu for the Lima VVA program file or shortcut, e.g. by right-clicking. Note that you may need to edit the security properties for the executable to allow other users to access it (Properties | Security | Edit).
 


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Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:41:50 -0000

--- v24
+++ v25
@@ -86,15 +86,15 @@

 Here are some screenshots showing the resource editors in action, while working on the Spanish translation. The first screenshot shows menu editing. The windows have been arranged so that the English version of the menu can be used as a reference while translating the Spanish version.

-[[[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-menus-translation.png)
+[[[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]](attachment/lima-vva-menus-translation.png)

 This next screenshot shows string table editing. The English version of the string table is displayed as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

-[[[img src="lima-vva-strings-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-strings-translation.png)
+[[[img src="lima-vva-strings-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]](attachment/lima-vva-strings-translation.png)

 This next screenshot shows dialog editing. Again, the English version of the dialog box is used as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

-[[[img src="lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png)
+[[[img src="lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]](attachment/lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png)

 

 #### Building Lima VVA and testing the translation
@@ -124,4 +124,4 @@

 Here is a screenshot showing the use of the Visual Studio HTML editor to translate a Lima VVA  help page. Several windows for the same help page in different languages are shown simultaneously as a reference during the translation work.

-[[[img src="lima-vva-help-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA help translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-help-translation.png)
+[[[img src="lima-vva-help-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA help translation" width="100%"]]](attachment/lima-vva-help-translation.png)

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:11:25 -0000

--- v23
+++ v24
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 The resource file for a module includes all the translations to the supported languages. In the old days, each language often needed its own file due to character set issues (a file needed to be encoded in a character set that supported the language), but with the modern Unicode character set, a single file can support all the languages in the world. Lima VVA now uses the Unicode encoding [UTF-16LE with BOM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16) (code page 1200 in Windows) for all of its resource files.

 

-### Adding support for a new language
+### Adding support for another language

 Adding support for another language involves two main tasks: (1) translation of terms, and (2) adding translated resources. You can contribute to the translation of Lima VVA into another language just by providing translations of the terms in our [Glossary]. However, to actually add the support for the language in Lima VVA, translated resources have to be added to the resource files. This task comprises a series of subtasks:

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:07:02 -0000

--- v22
+++ v23
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
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 ## Resource files

-To support multiple languages, Lima VVA uses Windows [Resource Files](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/resources). Any part of the program that may need to be translated to support another language is stored in these files, such as menus, accelerators (shortcut keys), dialog boxes and message strings. The resource files also define cursors, icons and bitmaps used by the program, although these resources are currently language neutral, and one set is hence reused for all languages.
+To support multiple languages, Lima VVA uses Windows [Resource Files](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/menurc/resources). Any part of the program that may need to be translated to support another language is stored in these files, such as menus, accelerators (shortcut keys), dialog boxes and message strings. The resource files also define cursors, icons and bitmaps used by the program, although these resources are currently language neutral, and one set is hence reused for all languages.

 If you want to work on Lima VVA language support, a basic understanding of resource files is beneficial. The Windows documentation linked above is a good starting point to learn more.

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
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 ## Help system

-The Lima VVA context-sensitive help system is based on [Microsoft HTML Help](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-1-4-sdk). Within Lima VVA, you can press F1 to get relevant help on menu items, views and dialog boxes. 
+The Lima VVA context-sensitive help system is based on [Microsoft HTML Help](https://learn.microsoft.com/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-1-4-sdk). Within Lima VVA, you can press F1 to get relevant help on menu items, views and dialog boxes. 

 Currently, the help topics are only available in English and Norwegian, but Spanish translation is ongoing, with more translations to come, hopefully. You can contribute to this work by translating the individual help topics. The help topics are simple [HTML files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML) stored in the source code repository in the subfolder "[Help (en)\html](https://sourceforge.net/p/lima-vva/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/Help%20(en)/html)" (English translation). These files can be edited in a plain text editor, which only requires some basic knowledge of HTML. Visual Studio includes a powerful HTML editor that lets you edit the HTML files as plain text (with highlighting, code completion, formatting and IntelliSense assistance) or as [WYSIWYG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG).

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:44:07 -0000

--- v21
+++ v22
@@ -86,15 +86,15 @@

 Here are some screenshots showing the resource editors in action, while working on the Spanish translation. The first screenshot shows menu editing. The windows have been arranged so that the English version of the menu can be used as a reference while translating the Spanish version.

-[[[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]](lima-vva-menus-translation.png)
+[[[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-menus-translation.png)

 This next screenshot shows string table editing. The English version of the string table is displayed as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

-[[img src="lima-vva-strings-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]
+[[[img src="lima-vva-strings-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-strings-translation.png)

 This next screenshot shows dialog editing. Again, the English version of the dialog box is used as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

-[[img src="lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]
+[[[img src="lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png)

 

 #### Building Lima VVA and testing the translation
@@ -124,4 +124,4 @@

 Here is a screenshot showing the use of the Visual Studio HTML editor to translate a Lima VVA  help page. Several windows for the same help page in different languages are shown simultaneously as a reference during the translation work.

-[[img src="lima-vva-help-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA help translation" width="100%"]]
+[[[img src="lima-vva-help-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA help translation" width="100%"]]](Language_Support/attachment/lima-vva-help-translation.png)

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:37:04 -0000

--- v20
+++ v21
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@

 Here are some screenshots showing the resource editors in action, while working on the Spanish translation. The first screenshot shows menu editing. The windows have been arranged so that the English version of the menu can be used as a reference while translating the Spanish version.

-[[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]
+[[[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]](lima-vva-menus-translation.png)

 This next screenshot shows string table editing. The English version of the string table is displayed as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:31:09 -0000

--- v19
+++ v20
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

 Unlike many Windows programs that support multiple languages, there is no language-specific version of Lima VVA. While many programs ship language-specific installation packages, the Lima VVA installation package comes with all of the currently supported languages included. 

-Also note that there is no option to switch language within Lima VVA. The language shown will depend on the display language setting in the operating system. If you run Lima VVA on a Windows system set to English, Lima VVA will also display in English. If you run Lima VVA on Windows in Norwegian, you get Norwegian in Lima VVA. And although Windows does not support Faroese as a display language, you can set the Windows regional settings to Faroese, which will enable Faroese in parts of Lima VVA (drawings and reports). If the active Windows display language is not supported by Lima VVA, English will be used as the default language.
+Also note that there is no option to switch language within Lima VVA. The language shown will depend on the display language setting in the operating system. If you run Lima VVA on a Windows system set to English, Lima VVA will also display in English. If you run Lima VVA on Windows set to Norwegian, you get Norwegian in Lima VVA. And although Windows does not support Faroese as a display language, you can set the Windows regional settings to Faroese, which will enable Faroese in parts of Lima VVA (drawings and reports). If the active Windows display language is not supported by Lima VVA, English will be used as the default language.

 **Tip:** For testing the various languages during development, it is a bit cumbersome to switch the Windows display language, since it requires you to log out and back in again. A convenient solution is to set up additional user accounts on your system, each configured to use a Windows display language you want to test. Then, from the main account, you can run Lima VVA as any of these users by using the command "Run as different user". One simple way to access this command is to hold down Shift while you open the context menu for the Lima VVA program file or shortcut, e.g. by right-clicking.

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:25:07 -0000

--- v18
+++ v19
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Language support in Lima VVA

-Lima VVA was developed in the Norwegian language, but have since been translated to English. We are now in the process of adding support for Spanish, with support for more languages to follow, hopefully.
+Lima VVA was developed in the Norwegian language, but has since been translated to English. We are now in the process of adding support for Spanish, with support for more languages to follow, hopefully.

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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@

 Unlike many Windows programs that support multiple languages, there is no language-specific version of Lima VVA. While many programs ship language-specific installation packages, the Lima VVA installation package comes with all of the currently supported languages included. 

-Also note that there is no option to switch language within Lima VVA. The language shown will depend on the display language setting in the operating system. If you run Lima VVA on Windows in English, you get English in Lima VVA as well. If you run Lima VVA on Windows in Norwegian, you get Norwegian in Lima VVA. And although Windows does not support Faroese as a display language, you can set the Windows regional settings to Faroese, which will enable Faroese in parts of Lima VVA (drawings and reports). If the active Windows display language is not supported by Lima VVA, English will be used as the default language.
+Also note that there is no option to switch language within Lima VVA. The language shown will depend on the display language setting in the operating system. If you run Lima VVA on a Windows system set to English, Lima VVA will also display in English. If you run Lima VVA on Windows in Norwegian, you get Norwegian in Lima VVA. And although Windows does not support Faroese as a display language, you can set the Windows regional settings to Faroese, which will enable Faroese in parts of Lima VVA (drawings and reports). If the active Windows display language is not supported by Lima VVA, English will be used as the default language.

 **Tip:** For testing the various languages during development, it is a bit cumbersome to switch the Windows display language, since it requires you to log out and back in again. A convenient solution is to set up additional user accounts on your system, each configured to use a Windows display language you want to test. Then, from the main account, you can run Lima VVA as any of these users by using the command "Run as different user". One simple way to access this command is to hold down Shift while you open the context menu for the Lima VVA program file or shortcut, e.g. by right-clicking.
 

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
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 ## Resource files

-To support multiple languages, Lima VVA uses Windows [Resource Files](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/resources). Any part of the program that may need to be translated to support another language is stored in these files, such as menus, accelerators (shortcut keys), dialog boxes and message strings. The resource files also defines cursors, icons and bitmaps used by the program, although these resources are currently language neutral, and one set is hence reused for all languages.
+To support multiple languages, Lima VVA uses Windows [Resource Files](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/resources). Any part of the program that may need to be translated to support another language is stored in these files, such as menus, accelerators (shortcut keys), dialog boxes and message strings. The resource files also define cursors, icons and bitmaps used by the program, although these resources are currently language neutral, and one set is hence reused for all languages.

 If you want to work on Lima VVA language support, a basic understanding of resource files is beneficial. The Windows documentation linked above is a good starting point to learn more.

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:37:45 -0000

--- v17
+++ v18
@@ -88,11 +88,11 @@

 [[img src="lima-vva-menus-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA menus translation" width="100%"]]

-This next screenshots shows string table editing. The English version of the string table is displayed as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.
+This next screenshot shows string table editing. The English version of the string table is displayed as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

 [[img src="lima-vva-strings-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]

-This next screenshots shows dialog editing. Again, the English version of the dialog box is used as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.
+This next screenshot shows dialog editing. Again, the English version of the dialog box is used as a reference, while translating the Spanish version.

 [[img src="lima-vva-dialogs-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA strings translation" width="100%"]]

@@ -122,6 +122,6 @@

 For more information on how to contribute, see [tickets:#2].

-Here is a screenshot showing the use of the Visual Studio HTML editor to translate the Lima VVA  help pages. Several windows for the same help page in different languages are shown simultaneously as a reference during the translation work.
+Here is a screenshot showing the use of the Visual Studio HTML editor to translate a Lima VVA  help page. Several windows for the same help page in different languages are shown simultaneously as a reference during the translation work.

 [[img src="lima-vva-help-translation.png" alt="Lima VVA help translation" width="100%"]]

Language_Support modified by Vidar Hasfjord

Vidar Hasfjord — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:35:50 -0000

--- v16
+++ v17
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@

 Copies of other resources can be made in a similar manner in the Resource View, and then translated interactively in the associated editors.

-Note that resource files are text files, so experts can also manually edit a resource file in a plain text editor, without the use of the resource editors. In particular, the resource file "verinfo.rc" is hand-coded, and you should not edit this file with the Visual Studio resource editor. It should be edited using a text editor (go to the Solution Explorer pane, select the resource file, and select "View Code" from the context menu).
+**Note:** Resource files are text files, so experts can also manually edit a resource file in a plain text editor, without the use of the resource editors. In particular, the resource file "verinfo.rc" is hand-coded, and you should not edit this file with the Visual Studio resource editor. It should be edited using a text editor (go to the Solution Explorer pane, select the resource file, and select "View Code" from the context menu).

 Here are some screenshots showing the resource editors in action, while working on the Spanish translation. The first screenshot shows menu editing. The windows have been arranged so that the English version of the menu can be used as a reference while translating the Spanish version.