Translating Messages

All JADE Object Manager display text and error messages are stored in the jadmsgs.eng file.

To translate the messages and errors, use any text editor (for example, Notepad). Change only the text enclosed in quotation marks ("").

Do not change the numbers or the position of the numbers. All numbers must start in column 2 and can be preceded by a hyphen.

The two stroke characters (//) in columns 1 and 2 are treated as comments, which are ignored when the JADE Object Manager is running.

To create several copies of the language file, save the file in the jadmsgs.xxx format. The xxx value can be any three characters representing the language. For example, to save the copy as a French translation file, you might save the file as jadmsgs.fre.

To specify a language file for the jadmsgs.eng file when running JADE, specify the following in the [JadeClient] section of your JADE initialization file.

Language=xxx

The xxx value is the file extension that you used when you saved the translated language file; for example, eng or fre. (The default value of the Language parameter is <default>.)

If you specify a parameter value of more than three characters in the [JadeClient] section of the JADE initialization file, only the first three characters are used. For example, if you specify Language=english, the JADE Object Manager interprets this as Language=eng.