Standard dialogs size & translation

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes alex at thehandofagony.com
Wed Jul 1 08:09:38 CDT 2009


Onsdag 01 juli 2009 14:23:47 skrev Frédéric Delanoy:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently updating/fixing the (French translation of the) commdlg32
> dialogs. There is a warning in cdlg_XX.rc saying "WARNING: DO NOT CHANGE
> THE SIZE OF THE STANDARD DIALOG TEMPLATES"
>
> However, e.g. in the standard "File Open" dialog, the standard size of
> some labels (e.g. "File name") is too small for a correct translation,
> and only the start of the message is shown (which is obviously wrong).
>
> I could manage to get correct translated version by modifying
> "internal" sizes (while keeping the total size of the dialog the
> same).
>
> Does the warning only apply to all localized versions, or just for the
> English one? What are the potential problems if a dialog is slightly
> adapted to fit a particular language?
>
> Frédéric


Changing the internal sizes should be ok; at least that's what Microsoft has 
done with some of the Norwegian dialogue boxes.



Alexander N. Sørnes



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