A way to translate UI

[AeroSoul]

Hello

A request came from above that UI for our machine should be translated to Chinese, it's currently in english.

Is there an easy way to do this fast, other than manually replacing all the text?

Most of the control names on UI are just text, rather than control names themselves.

[Chris_Dong]

Use caption on FP instead of Label, and make a dictionary file for language update.

You could update the caption with control reference.

And you also can fine a tool called "LCE".

[t.n14]

I always wanted to try this but never needed to. So I tried it for you, see attachment.

I don't know how good those config vis handle special characters. Notepad++ said the created file is UTF-8, may it can be changed?

But please don't see this as a solution, it's just an idea I came up with and did it in 20 min, it needs to be optimized, especially error handling!

Timo

addition: Carefull with translating just the ini text file, context may be lost.

[stefanha]

I'd also be interested in the idea you came up with, Timo.

Would you care to post the VI in an older version, LV20 or lower?

Thanks.

Stefan

[AeroSoul]

2019 or lower for me, please 😄

[Bob_Schor]

Here is the VI saved for LabVIEW 2019 and 2018.  Saving for LabVIEW 2017 reported an error, which I didn't examine closely.

Bob Schor

[t.n14]

Thank you Bob,

the front panel elemen "knob" does not exist in LV17, so it ist just missing in that older vi, shouldn't matter.

Timo

[paul_cardinale]

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@t.n14 wrote:

I always wanted to try this but never needed to. So I tried it for you, see attachment.

I don't know how good those config vis handle special characters. Notepad++ said the created file is UTF-8, may it can be changed?

But please don't see this as a solution, it's just an idea I came up with and did it in 20 min, it needs to be optimized, especially error handling!

Timo

addition: Carefull with translating just the ini text file, context may be lost.

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Of course, often you want to translate more than just labels (see attachment)

[zou]

You will need Unicode to display Chinese.

NI provides limited support for Unicode:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Reference-Design-Content/LabVIEW-Unicode-Programming-Tools/ta-p/3493021?pro...

[paul_cardinale]

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@zou wrote:

You will need Unicode to display Chinese.

NI provides limited support for Unicode:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Reference-Design-Content/LabVIEW-Unicode-Programming-Tools/ta-p/3493021?pro...

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The only thing you really need is the line

UseUnicode = "True"

in "labview.ini".

The the stuff in that package may be handy, but it's not essential.