User guide

Translating Panelman 3GS

The text which appears on the screen when Panelman is

running is stored in 3 files:

HINT.RES, HELP.RES, PMAN.RES

These files may be edited using any standard editor or word

processor. There are no control characters used in these files.

Each of the files has a short introductory section at the

beginning which will help explain the structure of the file and

its role in the Panelman program.

HINT.RES

No new section can be added to this file. Read the

introduction for details on how to translate this text.

HELP.RES

All text which appears when you press the

key is stored in

this file. When translating the most important thing to

remember is that changing any characters in any of the key

lines eg.

RETURN TO DOS000 means you must make the exact

same change in the corresponding text in the

PMAN.RES file.

Refer to the introductory section at the start of this file for

other possible hazards.

PMAN.RES

This file contains all information regarding the menu

including their size, colour and text contained within them.

Several pages of information on how to change colours and

menu sizes is contained at the start of this file.

For translation purposes it is important to note several things:

Text in any menu has spaces added after it to keep all

entries in that menu the same length. This is important

when highlighting items within a menu, otherwise they

will not be highlighted correctly.