To use your own UI strings and style names in your installation

You might want to see some UI strings different from the ones that the program comes with. You can edit:

The procedure that follows will guide you through the steps you need to do to edit the UI text strings.

Take a look at the following pairs of images, which show how you can edit default UI strings to suit your own purposes.

Installed Control Strings Installed Control Strings

Here are the steps you need to edit UI strings.

Step 1: Contact EngView

To edit UI strings, you need the special .txt file that contains the IDs of the program's controls paired with a text string that you see. To receive this file, write to support@engview.com, and explain what you want to achieve. EngView will send you the file containing the IDs for the strings you want to edit.

Step 2: Locating and editing the UI control IDs

  1. When you have the file, use a source code editor to open it.
  2. To the right of the equals sign, type the new string as you need it, like this:
Installed Control Strings
  1. Repeat Steps 2-3 for each string that you want to edit.
  2. IMPORTANT: Set the UCS encoding to the file. Recommended format: UTF-16 BE BOM.

Step 3: Loading the edited file into EngView

For EngView to recognize the edited strings, you need to load the edited file into your installation.

  1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the File Locations tab.
  2. In the Shared Settings section, locate the Language translations overrides row. By default, it is empty.
Translations Overrides Row Empty
  1. In the row, type the path to where you have saved the translated file, or use the browse button, and navigate to the folder.
Translations Overrides Row Filled
  1. When you have entered the path to the file, click OK.

Step 4: Checking the edited UI strings

  1. Go to the dialog boxes that contain the UI controls whose strings you edited. They now show the edited strings.