Having difficulty switching between English and Chinese

[Ozfarmboy]

Hi!

I have a requirement to change the front panel strings (captions) from English to Chinese, at the click of a button.

The PC specs are: Windows 2000, MSBC enabled with an IME.  LabVIEW 7.1 (Will eventually be using LabVIEW 8.20 - does this make it any easier?)

I have done a little research on the NI web page, and have tried the following knowledge base article:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/2d17d611efb58b22862567a9006ffe76/6d94f90fc9b93aad862568a7007...

What I need to know is what this article means by "translating the text".  This is what I've tried thus far:

Export strings to a file.

Edit strings in an editor that supports Chinese.

Save file as text (should I save it as xml instead?)

Import Strings back into LabVIEW

All that gets displayed is "???", instead of Chinese characters.

Any suggestions?

[Ozfarmboy]

Just to clarify, the Windows 2000 OS is an English language version, (not Chinese).

[Ben]

"... change the front panel strings (captions) from English to Chinese, at the click of a button."

without scripting, no can do using the article you cited.

The solution is trivial but the implementation is not.

You will either have to update all of the captions or hide the captions and place string indicators where the captions would have been.

Ben

[zou]

Try this:

use label for English, caption for Unicode (Chinese, and other asian lauguage).

Edit the caption on the front panel, don't save the Unicode to another file.

George Zou

http://gtoolbox.yeah.net