Project: Software development, Internationalization and Localization

TempTale monitors (TT3, TTH, TTD, TT4) are used to monitor temperature sensitive products. TempTale Manager is software to view the collected ambient temperature and relative humidity data in a tabular, graphical or summary view. The VB 6 software interacts with the hardware via VC++ DLL interface.

• Replaced custom ActiveX controls (Sheridan ThreeD.OCX, docking toolbar, etc.) with standard VB controls. Update the event procedures to use appropriate standard control events.
• Single-handedly internationalized the product for localization to Japanese and Spanish.
• Extracted all the UI strings and other UI elements to external resource files.
• Updated the code to load the resources from satellite DLLs, thus allowing flexibility of adding additional languages.
• The resource loading was implemented using Windows API calls.
• Due to various limitations of VB, had to find workarounds for issues like displaying double-byte characters on English OS, font charsets for selected locale, Unicode-ANSI conversion, etc.
• Upgraded the database to Access 2000 from Access 98.
• Update the InstallShield installer to create localized setup and accordingly install the appropriate language resource DLLs of TTM.