mbruck Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Croatian characters country code page not supported. Country code 1250 (Central Europian) As I know Croatian country code is 1250, and it is not supported, at least in version I just download from site. 5.79A build 1574 (trial) I send two prints screen, first what is shown in DaqFactory, and second what really should be on the screen. As you see on first screen even if I chose CE subfont (Central European), valid characters still don't show correctly. How can I get our character's show correctly? Reghards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 (Please read post below as this didn't work. Attachment was removed) Did you try Arial in DAQFactory? I'll assume so. Try the following: 1) download the attached DLL (inside the zip file) 2) Copy it into your DAQFactory directory 3) Start up RegEdit to edit your registry (start - Run - regedit) 4) browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/DAQFactory/Control 5) select Edit - New - String Value to add a new value. Call it "LanguagePack". Note the caps and no spaces. 6) set this value to lang_croat.dll 7) quit registry editor and start DAQFactory and see how it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 No. Program just do ping-ping very fast and won't even open anymore. When I remove LanguagePack registry item, it work normally, but same problem exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 I thought that might happen. Try this instead: 1) I've put a patch up at www.azeotech.com/daqfactory.exe. This will be included in the next release, but we're not going to release for a simple little change, but I don't want you to wait. Copy the file over the existing in your DAQFactory directory. 2) browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/DAQFactory/Control and delete the LanguagePack setting you created 3) Add a new DWORD value called CodePage and set it to your code page number (1250) 4) start up DAQFactory No guarantees that this will work, but this is the only other mod we can make on short notice. Tell me how it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 I have done as instructed, program start regularly, but there is no any change. Still there is no Croatian characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 OK, can you please post a simple document with a text component that should show croatian characters, and perhaps a screenshot of what the text should look like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 No problem.. I send you notepad file, believe most easyer to analyze. Also print screen how characters look like lower and upper case. Regards! CRO_Characters.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I'm not completely sure that that will do what I want. Can you take those same characters and put them in a DAQFactory Text component, then post the .ctl file? Windows can sometimes do weird things when you cut and paste and I'm afraid it will alter the characters since I'm not on the same code page by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 Ok. No problemo. Here it is. cro_text.ctl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Did you type the characters directly into DAQFactory, or did you cut and paste them from Notepad? Make sure you type them directly in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted September 30, 2008 Author Share Posted September 30, 2008 I typed in directly to text component. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted September 30, 2008 Share Posted September 30, 2008 I'm not sure why it won't take. The code page is being set correctly, but the characters still don't display correctly. I'm afraid I don't have a solution for you, other than using bitmaps for your text displays that you generate in Paint or another program instead of text. DAQFactory release 6 will be fully unicode and will not have this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 OK. Fine. I can wait for 6.0 version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Thanks. It is a definite priority that 6.0 be unicode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 DAQFactory release 6 will be fully unicode and will not have this issue. This is promise more than YEAR AGO. I still waiting for version 6.0 and Unicode support. Unfortunate, many software developers like to PROMISE, more than WORK. (It seam you are one of them) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 We are working. Just on different things, namely the DAQConnect service. Unfortunately, most businesses have to work on the things that will make them money, and Unicode support is below real time web access (and other things) on the "will make money" scale, especially since you should be able to use unicode in DAQConnect (though truthfully we haven't tried it). You may think it greedy, but all software developers need to eat, and unless we make money, we don't eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 No hard feeling.... Many manufacturers wouldn't even publish my comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 No worries. I want unicode support just as bad as you. Unfortunately, its actually kind of complicated for DAQ software tools that support serial and ethernet because of course, serial and ethernet is typically straight ASCII characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted November 8, 2009 Author Share Posted November 8, 2009 Unfortunately, its actually kind of complicated for DAQ software tools that support serial and ethernet because of course, serial and ethernet is typically straight ASCII characters. No, no... It is only for screen messages! Look previous posts. I will not put any Croatian characters into communication streaming.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Oh, I know, but once you compile the app using Unicode, then EVERYTHING ends up being unicode if you use the standard libraries. Thus the programming challenges. The serial data is of course just ASCII, but if it gets read into a string internal (which is unicode) it will get misinterpretted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orlee Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Some additional info, maybe will give some clue: I developped an application with Hebrew Character set on my laptop. No problems. Codepage is 1255 When I changed laptop - I got all garbled out. System is XP sp3, and I use DaqFactory 5.81. I now try to move app to another computer to see if that solve. I dont know yet where in the PC definition something do not allow the character set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruck Posted July 8, 2015 Author Share Posted July 8, 2015 My initial post about this issue was 6 years ago. Then I (we) got promise about version 6 and unicode support. I see there is no version 6 yet (and probably never be, according to time spent to develop from 5.9 to 6.0), but is there a unicode support at least ? I'm trying to convince one buyer for developer version, but it is hard without unicode support. Any (reasonable) comment? If possible, please, without "we are working on it" since obviously you are not. Mladen Bruck Hercegovina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzeoTech Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Yup, and my apologizes for the lack of progress on this. Most everything I can say has already been said. We don't get many support issues regarding alternate character sets, possibly because customers use bitmap images when needed, and so this feature is down on the list, even though I personally would love to see it happen. Also, unicode is not necessarily the answer. In the time since your original post, the world has standardized more on UTF-8. It is much more likely we will support this than unicode as this does not require a recompile, it simply requires us to modify the screen controls to properly interpret the characters. Modifying the screen controls will also solve some other issues (scale and pan), but its quite involved if we are trying to maintain backwards compatibility. Its been an internal conflict for some time, trying to find the best way to move forward without losing backward compatibility, and as such is taking longer than I would hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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