With an app I'm starting I'm thinking of building in a personalisation (not internationalisation) facility for labels, columns headers etc.
What do you lot do?

Roy Lambert
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Roy,

I've done that for one of my applications. The way I did it was to
create a table with fields identifying each label, etc. I would allow
to be changed/personalized. In the case of this one app I placed the
values in a configuration table (tblConfig). Then on each form's
FormActivate event I used code like the following line (LEADS was the
application name, hence dmLEADS is the data module):

lblDistrictName.Caption := dmLEADS.tblConfigDistrictName.Value;

The only caveat is to make sure the length of the string/varchar is no
longer (obviously) than the space you have for the label, etc. I
initially wrote that app in 2000 and it has worked well for me through
all the changes since, and is still running strong and correctly with
the personalizations.

HTH,

Jan Ferguson

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Roy Lambert wrote:

> With an app I'm starting I'm thinking of building in a
> personalisation (not internationalisation) facility for labels,
> columns headers etc.  What do you lot do?
>
> Roy Lambert
> t

Jan


That's pretty much what my first thoughts were. Can you tell me roughly how many labels / how fast it was?

My second thoughts are:

1. subclass dbtext to have a default value used when the table doesn't exist or there's no corresponding record
2. have a table with overrides
3. use dbtexts rather than labels

Roy Lambert

Roy,

IIRC it was somewhere around 50 (but not more than 50). There was no
discernable speed hit from what I could see. Even with it being in the
FormActivate event, the form appears to show just as quickly as with
using static captions (at least as quickly as my eye and brain could
discern. I'm sure there are nano-second differences but I couldn't see
it.)

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Jan


Roy Lambert wrote:

> That's pretty much what my first thoughts were. Can you tell me
> roughly how many labels / how fast it was?