Localizing Applications

Once your application is internationalized, you can create localized versions for the different foreign markets in which you want to distribute it.

Localizing resources

Ideally, your resources have been isolated into a resource DLL that contains form files (.dfm in VCL applications ) and a resource file. You can open your forms in the IDE and translate the relevant properties.

Note: In a resource DLL project, you cannot add or delete components. It is possible, however, to change properties in ways that could cause runtime errors, so be careful to modify only those properties that require translation. To avoid mistakes, you can configure the Object Inspector

to display only Localizable properties; to do so, right-click in the Object Inspector and use the View menu to filter out unwanted property categories. You can open the RC file and translate relevant strings. Use the StringTable editor by opening the RC file from the Project Manager.