How to test cryptui's dialogs?

[Paul Vriens]

Aurimas Fišeras wrote:
> On 07/05/2009 12:59 PM, Paul Vriens wrote:
>> André Hentschel wrote:
>>> Paul Vriens schrieb:
>>>> On 5 jul 2009, at 09:49, Frédéric Delanoy
>>>> <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 07/05/2009 08:46 AM, Aurimas Fišeras wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/05/2009 03:36 AM, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
>>>>>>> On 07/04/2009 11:29 PM, Aurimas Fišeras wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've finished translating cryptui's resources, checked control sizes
>>>>>>>> with resource editor and adjusted them where it was needed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But how can I run cryptui's wizards and other dialogs to confirm
>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>> everything else is translated correctly?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can always run ResHacker (see
>>>>>>> http://wiki.winehq.org/Translating#head-97aa5da9117ce6c05ac70962373f2c3a6a5f81fb
>>>>>>> for more information).
>>>>>>> I've used it and it works reasonably well (at least on generated
>>>>>>> *.res files).
>>>>>>> One problem I spotted however (probably a bug in Wine) is that
>>>>>>> you've to use to "All Files (*.*)" filter to view the files.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is I wrote above, I already performed this step (using xnre). Now I
>>>>>> want
>>>>>> to check "live" dialogs, but don't know how.
>>>>> You can do that with ResHacker: just select the dialogs you want to
>>>>> see on the left-side tree,
>>>>> and double-click on the menu you want to check (or single-click and
>>>>> use "show dialog"); what't nice
>>>>> is that you can modify the dialog/widgets sizes and check "live" the
>>>>> results in a preview window.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, the buttons won't have any action, but hey, you're
>>>>> translating, not trying to verify that, e.g.,
>>>>> the buttons work correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you find a better way, please tell me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Frédéric
>>>> I think I've used Firefox for that.I will check when I've powered up
>>>> my laptop later in the day.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>> As i wrote the german translation of it, i had the same problem.
>>> The solution is to install IE6 with IEs4Linux or something like that
>>> and go to options->security tab.
>>> You need to check if the installer made a dll-override of cryptui and
>>> the other crypt-things, they should be "built-in".
>>>
>>> Have Fun
>>> Best Regards, André Hentschel
>>>
>>>
>> It wasn't Firefox it was actually Chrome I used for checking the
>> translations.
>>
> Thanks, Chrome worked great for this purpose.

I'm actually fixing up the NL translations as several things are not 
entirely correct (mostly sizing issues).

I did experience some crashes of Chrome while dealing with the crypt 
exporting/importing/viewing, so will do some bughunting as well ;)

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.