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Introduction

 GMS menu entries typically convey information textually, and so must be in some language. If your application must run in different language environments, you can use Gensym Foundation Resources (GFR) to provide internationalization.

GFR allows you to specify text values as symbols called GFR symbols instead of strings. When GMS is configured to use GFR, and encounters a GFR symbol in a menu specification, GMS passes the symbol to GFR, which returns a string appropriate to the current language environment. GMS then uses that string as if it had appeared literally in the menu specification.

To see online examples of the concepts covered in this chapter:

  1. Load the gmsdemo.kb from the kbs directory.

  2. Choose the demo called Language Support.

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