String resource files

From: Bob Walkden <"Bob>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:00:00 +0000

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Hi,

I'm having some difficulty maping strings using Rsrc/Strings.odc files. As
far as I can tell I'm following the guidance given in the Dialog
documentation, but the MapString procedure returns the key rather than the
string it should map to.

Can anybody suggest what I am doing wrong, please?

Example:

The following module is in subsystem Bob. The Strings file below is in the
Rsrc subdirectory. When I execute the procedure Test, it writes the word
'String' to the log, followed by 'About Blackbox'. So it seems that it is
not finding ../Bob/Rsrc/Strings.odc, or I have misunderstood something.

MODULE BobStrings;

IMPORT Dialog, StdLog;

VAR
        str : ARRAY 128 OF CHAR;

PROCEDURE Test* ;
BEGIN
        Dialog.MapString( "#Bob:String", str );
        StdLog.Ln;
        StdLog.String( str );

        Dialog.MapString( "#System:About", str );
        StdLog.Ln;
        StdLog.String( str );
END Test;

END BobStrings.

The file ../Bob/Rsrc/Strings.odc contains just this:

STRINGS

String This is a string in a resource file

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