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Move hard-coded strings and UI text to Resources #792

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timheuer opened this issue May 14, 2019 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1972
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Move hard-coded strings and UI text to Resources #792

timheuer opened this issue May 14, 2019 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1972
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Area-UserInterface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Fix-Committed Fix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.
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Terminal v1.0

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@timheuer
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There are a few places in current iteration that are hard-coding UI-shown values and should move those to resources for easier updating and localization.

Need to determine if following UWP-style resources or RC based.
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Thanks for filing this, it's actually the reason we haven't bitten off some of the more interesting things. I think we should be able to use UWP-style resources, but that'll require a good bit of integration work.

The build tools don't seem capable of rolling up multiple levels of component resources into the toplevel app package .pri file. ☹️

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There is a merge capability for PRI (or used to be) that existed for this reason (a component with it's own PRI + app with it's own PRI == single package PRI). It's possible. Good thing is I don't think that you have many strings that will be a part of the host here that are problematic. But you may want resources for other reasons of course too (defaults, etc.)

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It's possible, but the "Windows Application Packaging" project doesn't play too nicely with multiple dynamic library components rolling up through a Win32 EXE (that doesn't support resw/resx) to make that happen easily. There's work here.

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@DHowett-MSFT DHowett-MSFT changed the title Move hard-coded strings to resources Move hard-coded strings and UI text to Resources May 14, 2019
@miniksa miniksa added the Area-UserInterface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal label May 14, 2019
@miniksa miniksa added this to the Windows Terminal v1.0 milestone May 14, 2019
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Hey so for the record, the branch I have with the error dialog (dev/migrie/f/gh-error-dialog) does some of this. I just haven't gotten the UI tweaked exactly right to make this branch ready to PR quite yet.

@DHowett-MSFT DHowett-MSFT added the Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. label May 16, 2019
@ghost ghost added the Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements label May 17, 2019
@miniksa miniksa added Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. and removed Mass-Chaos labels May 17, 2019
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DHowett-MSFT pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 14, 2019
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Move TerminalApp's resources into the TerminalApp project
2a6e340 
This commit also introduces a scoped resource accessor, lightly taken
from microsoft-ui-xaml. It also moves all static UI strings out of
App.cpp and into localizable resources.

Fixes #792.
@DHowett-MSFT DHowett-MSFT mentioned this issue Jul 14, 2019
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DHowett-MSFT pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 15, 2019
@DHowett
Move TerminalApp's resources into the TerminalApp project
de594c6 
This commit also introduces a scoped resource accessor, lightly taken
from microsoft-ui-xaml. It also moves all static UI strings out of
App.cpp and into localizable resources.

Fixes #792.
DHowett-MSFT pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 15, 2019
@DHowett
Move TerminalApp's resources into the TerminalApp project
e9127c9 
This commit also introduces a scoped resource accessor, lightly taken
from microsoft-ui-xaml. It also moves all static UI strings out of
App.cpp and into localizable resources.

Fixes #792.
@ghost ghost added Needs-Tag-Fix Doesn't match tag requirements Resolution-Fix-Committed Fix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release. and removed In-PR This issue has a related PR labels Jul 23, 2019
DHowett-MSFT pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 23, 2019
@DHowett
Move TerminalApp's resources into the TerminalApp project (#1972)
69c67f8 
* Move TerminalApp's resources into the TerminalApp project

This commit also introduces a scoped resource accessor, lightly taken
from microsoft-ui-xaml. It also moves all static UI strings out of
App.cpp and into localizable resources.

Fixes #792.
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