Category Archives: Windows

Apple failing to support high-DPI on iTunes

Posted on 2010/11/02 by sorin

The irony is that Apple who created the smartphone with the greatest DPI ever, is unable to add high DPI support for their iTunes application. Here is how the latest iTunes 10 application under Windows 7 on a computer that … Continue reading →

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Using msdev resource editor to create Unicode dialogs that will not display well

Posted on 2009/04/21 by sorin

I was surprised to discover that creating Unicode UI elements in the resource editor of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) does work, BUT when you compile your application they will fail to display well.

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Automation and Unicode text input under Windows

Posted on 2008/12/07 by sorin

If you’ll ever try to use automation for testing globalization readiness on applications you are going to discover that the keyboard input API does not have any function for entering Unicode texts. If you’ll try to use VkKeyScan for converting an Unicode character … Continue reading →

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Keyboard shortcuts in an international context

Posted on 2008/10/07 by sorin

One common error in internationalization is to think that all shortcuts must be translated. People forgot that one of the major advantages of the shortcuts is that they are memorized their position on the keyboard and not by the sign … Continue reading →

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Better localization for filenames on Windows, OS X and Linux

Posted on 2008/09/17 by sorin

If you have a localized application, at some stage you’ll discover that you need to localize filenames – for example if you have a set of template files. This is quite a tricky problem because it’s very hard to maintain … Continue reading →

Posted in OS X, Programming, Readiness, Windows | 2 Comments