Language Pack Program
You can get a free license for CoolTabs if you can provide a NEW language pack file. But before you start the job, you must accept the terms of this "Agreement":
After you complete a new language pack, you can get:
If you agree with the stated above "Agreement", please send
the message to translate@alerma.com
with your full name, indicating the langauage you would like to translate
the program to. You should be accepted as Translator by Alerma Software,
because someone else probably is already working on the same language
translation. You will receive an email message indicating your acceptance
(or not). Once accepted, you can start the localization process. |
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Localizing CoolTabs CoolTabs provides a simple way to be localized. We think this method will ease the translation phase and will make the translator's work effortless. Needed files In order to localize CoolTabs you'll have first to download ResHacker, a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files. ResHacker requires no installation apart from extracting the executable and the accompanying documentation files from the zip file into the desired folder. Then download the localizable DLL here. This archive contains LOC.DLL. Put it in any convenient place on your hard disk. The localization process 1. Copy LOC.dll to LangPackXXX.dll
6. Open the "Version Info" resource. 7. Set the "InternalName" to the language name that will be displayed under CoolTabs' "Language" sub-menu. Rename it to the language name you're translating to (in english or in
the language of translation)... Translate all the resources, such as strings, dialogs, menus, etc. Translating HTML resources As soon as it seems the ResHack doesn't support UTF-8 directly, save any resource 23 (HTML) as a text file (using Save... command in the context menu). Then open it with Notepad, edit as you wish and save as UTF-8 encoded text. After that you have to import the resource back, by using "Replace..." command. While replacing it is recommended to change the language code page to 0. Finishing your work Once you have finished translating, copy the localized DLL to the folder where CoolTabs is installed. Run the program and you should see all the items translated. If everything is OK, please pack the LangPackXXX.dll to ZIP archive and send it to translate@alerma.com How to update the Localization 1. Rename your "old" LangPackXXX.dll to LangPackXXX.<build>.dll |