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Translate the EGC-based Viewer

The EGC-based viewer obtains its resources from a number of places:

• Dialogs, web pages, and images are stored in gui_rcview.dll.

  Make a copy of this file including the country code, for example, gui_rcview_se.dll.

• The Viewer Properties dialog is stored in rcPropDialog_en.dll.

  Copy this file with a new name using your country code, for example, rcPropDialog_se.dll. Then use a resource editor to edit the strings on the dialogs that can be localized.

• The viewer reads strings from the [rcPlugin] section of rcHostViewer.enu for message dialogs.

You must configure EGC to use the new gui_rcview.dll file. To do this, create the following registry entries (assuming the Swedish locale, SE):

#--------------------------------------------------------------------
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\EGC3.0N\Locale\SE]
"HelpFile"="C:\\Program Files\\CA\\SC\\EGC\\egc30enu.chm"
"ResourceDLL"="C:\\Program Files\\CA\\SC\\EGC\\egc30Nres.enu"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ComputerAssociates\EGC3.0N\Plugins\ITRMRC_DSMVIEW\Locale\SE]
"HelpFile"="C:\\Program Files\\CA\\DSM\\help\\gui_rcview_help_enu.chm"
"MessageHelpFile"="C:\\Program Files\\CA\\DSM\\help\\gui_rcview_msg_enu.chm"
"ResourceDLL"="C:\\Program Files\\CA\\DSM\\bin\\gui_rcview_se.dll"
#--------------------------------------------------------------------

A simple way of doing this is to export the existing English entries to a text file, edit them using Notepad, and then import back to the registry.

This example assumes that Remote Control is installed in the default location on the C drive. It still uses the English help files, since you cannot localize these.