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[SOLVED] Labels with attributes and internationalization

Author: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni)

Hi Unifacers, I am in the process to convert a Uniface9 application to be multilanguage. All labels/buttons/messages should be converted to $text(SOMETHING). My issue is regarding labels including character attributes (bold / italic / underline); physically those labels are saved with sequences of 8 chars defining the attributes to be applied to the following (9th) character. An example: the string "CIAO" in bold is saved as: |c{U|1|1C|c{U|1|1I|c{U|1|1A|c{U|1|1O Possible combinations for these attributes are: |c{U|1|1 = Bold |b|!|1|1 = Italic |b{e|1|1 = Underline |c|!|1|1 = BoldItalic |b|1|1|1 = ItalicUnderline |c{e|1|1 = BoldUnderline |c|1|1|1 = BoldItalicUnderline If I directly move label content to USOURCE as a message, those specific sequences are threated as real character so that label does not mean anything for end user. As an alternative I can define 3 logical fonts to convert ONLY SINGLE attributes; an example: HyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,underline BoldLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold ItalicLabel=Arial,Central European,8,italic and map labels having only ONE attribute to these logical fonts. Unfortunately in many cases I am finding combinations of Bold+Underline; for CIAO in bold+underline is something like: |c{e|1|1C|c{e|1|1I|c{e|1|1A|c{e|1|1O AFAIK it is not possible to have a logical font with more than one font attribute, something like: BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold+underline Any idea or hint? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, Gianni

[SOLVED] Labels with attributes and internationalization

Author: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni)

Hi Unifacers, I am in the process to convert a Uniface9 application to be multilanguage. All labels/buttons/messages should be converted to $text(SOMETHING). My issue is regarding labels including character attributes (bold / italic / underline); physically those labels are saved with sequences of 8 chars defining the attributes to be applied to the following (9th) character. An example: the string "CIAO" in bold is saved as: |c{U|1|1C|c{U|1|1I|c{U|1|1A|c{U|1|1O Possible combinations for these attributes are: |c{U|1|1 = Bold |b|!|1|1 = Italic |b{e|1|1 = Underline |c|!|1|1 = BoldItalic |b|1|1|1 = ItalicUnderline |c{e|1|1 = BoldUnderline |c|1|1|1 = BoldItalicUnderline If I directly move label content to USOURCE as a message, those specific sequences are threated as real character so that label does not mean anything for end user. As an alternative I can define 3 logical fonts to convert ONLY SINGLE attributes; an example: HyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,underline BoldLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold ItalicLabel=Arial,Central European,8,italic and map labels having only ONE attribute to these logical fonts. Unfortunately in many cases I am finding combinations of Bold+Underline; for CIAO in bold+underline is something like: |c{e|1|1C|c{e|1|1I|c{e|1|1A|c{e|1|1O AFAIK it is not possible to have a logical font with more than one font attribute, something like: BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold+underline Any idea or hint? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, Gianni

Hi Gianni, According to the doc the FontStyles setting can include "one or more styles, separated by spaces". E.g.

BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold underline For details see here. Hope this helps, Regards, Daniel


Author: diseli (daniel.iseli@uniface.com)

[SOLVED] Labels with attributes and internationalization

Author: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni)

Hi Unifacers, I am in the process to convert a Uniface9 application to be multilanguage. All labels/buttons/messages should be converted to $text(SOMETHING). My issue is regarding labels including character attributes (bold / italic / underline); physically those labels are saved with sequences of 8 chars defining the attributes to be applied to the following (9th) character. An example: the string "CIAO" in bold is saved as: |c{U|1|1C|c{U|1|1I|c{U|1|1A|c{U|1|1O Possible combinations for these attributes are: |c{U|1|1 = Bold |b|!|1|1 = Italic |b{e|1|1 = Underline |c|!|1|1 = BoldItalic |b|1|1|1 = ItalicUnderline |c{e|1|1 = BoldUnderline |c|1|1|1 = BoldItalicUnderline If I directly move label content to USOURCE as a message, those specific sequences are threated as real character so that label does not mean anything for end user. As an alternative I can define 3 logical fonts to convert ONLY SINGLE attributes; an example: HyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,underline BoldLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold ItalicLabel=Arial,Central European,8,italic and map labels having only ONE attribute to these logical fonts. Unfortunately in many cases I am finding combinations of Bold+Underline; for CIAO in bold+underline is something like: |c{e|1|1C|c{e|1|1I|c{e|1|1A|c{e|1|1O AFAIK it is not possible to have a logical font with more than one font attribute, something like: BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold+underline Any idea or hint? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, Gianni

diseli said Hi Gianni, According to the doc the FontStyles setting can include "one or more styles, separated by spaces". E.g.

BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold underline For details see here. Hope this helps, Regards, Daniel  

Thanks Daniel! I am giving it a try... Gianni P.S. Tested, IT WORKS! The only limitation remaining it is "only one attributes set" for a single label while originally more attributes set could be defined in a single label.


Author: gianni (gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com)

[SOLVED] Labels with attributes and internationalization

Author: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni)

Hi Unifacers, I am in the process to convert a Uniface9 application to be multilanguage. All labels/buttons/messages should be converted to $text(SOMETHING). My issue is regarding labels including character attributes (bold / italic / underline); physically those labels are saved with sequences of 8 chars defining the attributes to be applied to the following (9th) character. An example: the string "CIAO" in bold is saved as: |c{U|1|1C|c{U|1|1I|c{U|1|1A|c{U|1|1O Possible combinations for these attributes are: |c{U|1|1 = Bold |b|!|1|1 = Italic |b{e|1|1 = Underline |c|!|1|1 = BoldItalic |b|1|1|1 = ItalicUnderline |c{e|1|1 = BoldUnderline |c|1|1|1 = BoldItalicUnderline If I directly move label content to USOURCE as a message, those specific sequences are threated as real character so that label does not mean anything for end user. As an alternative I can define 3 logical fonts to convert ONLY SINGLE attributes; an example: HyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,underline BoldLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold ItalicLabel=Arial,Central European,8,italic and map labels having only ONE attribute to these logical fonts. Unfortunately in many cases I am finding combinations of Bold+Underline; for CIAO in bold+underline is something like: |c{e|1|1C|c{e|1|1I|c{e|1|1A|c{e|1|1O AFAIK it is not possible to have a logical font with more than one font attribute, something like: BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold+underline Any idea or hint? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, Gianni

gianni said P.S. Tested, IT WORKS! The only limitation remaining it is "only one attributes set" for a single label while originally more attributes set could be defined in a single label.  

Hi Gianni, If you use $bold, $italic, and/or $underline in the text of the message then it seems to work. This will of course only work with string substitution:

%%$concat($bold("Hello"), " ", $italic("world"), "!")%%% Okay, this is probably not such a straightforward approach. Hope this helps. Daniel


Author: diseli (daniel.iseli@uniface.com)

[SOLVED] Labels with attributes and internationalization

Author: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni)

Hi Unifacers, I am in the process to convert a Uniface9 application to be multilanguage. All labels/buttons/messages should be converted to $text(SOMETHING). My issue is regarding labels including character attributes (bold / italic / underline); physically those labels are saved with sequences of 8 chars defining the attributes to be applied to the following (9th) character. An example: the string "CIAO" in bold is saved as: |c{U|1|1C|c{U|1|1I|c{U|1|1A|c{U|1|1O Possible combinations for these attributes are: |c{U|1|1 = Bold |b|!|1|1 = Italic |b{e|1|1 = Underline |c|!|1|1 = BoldItalic |b|1|1|1 = ItalicUnderline |c{e|1|1 = BoldUnderline |c|1|1|1 = BoldItalicUnderline If I directly move label content to USOURCE as a message, those specific sequences are threated as real character so that label does not mean anything for end user. As an alternative I can define 3 logical fonts to convert ONLY SINGLE attributes; an example: HyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,underline BoldLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold ItalicLabel=Arial,Central European,8,italic and map labels having only ONE attribute to these logical fonts. Unfortunately in many cases I am finding combinations of Bold+Underline; for CIAO in bold+underline is something like: |c{e|1|1C|c{e|1|1I|c{e|1|1A|c{e|1|1O AFAIK it is not possible to have a logical font with more than one font attribute, something like: BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold+underline Any idea or hint? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, Gianni

diseli said
gianni said P.S. Tested, IT WORKS! The only limitation remaining it is "only one attributes set" for a single label while originally more attributes set could be defined in a single label.  
Hi Gianni, If you use $bold, $italic, and/or $underline in the text of the message then it seems to work. This will of course only work with string substitution:

%%$concat($bold("Hello"), " ", $italic("world"), "!")%%% Okay, this is probably not such a straightforward approach. Hope this helps. Daniel  

Yes...agreed. Anyhow building in short time a parser able to deal with all possible combinations is not a simple task and customer agreed to stay on the simple side. Thanks for your support! Gianni


Author: gianni (gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com)

[SOLVED] Labels with attributes and internationalization

Author: gianni.sandigliano@unifacesolutions.com (gianni)

Hi Unifacers, I am in the process to convert a Uniface9 application to be multilanguage. All labels/buttons/messages should be converted to $text(SOMETHING). My issue is regarding labels including character attributes (bold / italic / underline); physically those labels are saved with sequences of 8 chars defining the attributes to be applied to the following (9th) character. An example: the string "CIAO" in bold is saved as: |c{U|1|1C|c{U|1|1I|c{U|1|1A|c{U|1|1O Possible combinations for these attributes are: |c{U|1|1 = Bold |b|!|1|1 = Italic |b{e|1|1 = Underline |c|!|1|1 = BoldItalic |b|1|1|1 = ItalicUnderline |c{e|1|1 = BoldUnderline |c|1|1|1 = BoldItalicUnderline If I directly move label content to USOURCE as a message, those specific sequences are threated as real character so that label does not mean anything for end user. As an alternative I can define 3 logical fonts to convert ONLY SINGLE attributes; an example: HyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,underline BoldLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold ItalicLabel=Arial,Central European,8,italic and map labels having only ONE attribute to these logical fonts. Unfortunately in many cases I am finding combinations of Bold+Underline; for CIAO in bold+underline is something like: |c{e|1|1C|c{e|1|1I|c{e|1|1A|c{e|1|1O AFAIK it is not possible to have a logical font with more than one font attribute, something like: BoldHyperLabel=Arial,Central European,8,bold+underline Any idea or hint? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Regards, Gianni

Thanks, Gianni. And you are welcome. Daniel


Author: diseli (daniel.iseli@uniface.com)
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