TestedApp Foreign Language Support?

Sergi,



You're not interrupting, this is what Forums are for!  Users helping users!



Here's what I did:

I have two files that I use for translations.  One contains a tab-delimited dump from Excel of the strings for the languages we support, as well as an ID so we can reference the terms.  It looks kind of like this....



999 Yes  Oui  Ja  Si



Another contains a mapping, so we can refer to it in the scripts.  It looks kind of like this...



Global.Yes, 999



When our tests start up, they load the "dictionary" into an array.  Our application stores the current language configuration in the registry, so we look there to find out how the application is configured.  We then load up the mapping file, pushing the mapping and the current "definition" of the term into a global array which can be accessed by the scripts.



It's working pretty well now.

I went a different route with the MFC Resource DLL's, and now I've got "dictionaries" of each language our application supports.  I'm now having difficulties getting TestComplete to read Japanese text from the application.  Is there any way to make TestComplete read the Unicode characters from the Title of a window, or the label on a tab,  to aid in object recognition?

Hello Will,

I'm sorry to interfere but I found your question really interesting (as I could have posted the same exact question) and I subscribed to it.

I was wondering if you could post some sort of detailed explanation of your final approach to see if it can be of any help to my project.



To solve your current problem, I did what it's explained here:

http://smartbear.com/forums/f74/t53178/re-testcomplete-support-for-other-regional-lan

Also...



In order to get TestComplete to recognize the Japanese characters, I had to run an internal application that converts the OS to Japanese.  Once I did that, katakana characters appears within TestComplete, and I could use katakana for object recognition.