I need to make a program that will change the language on windows, But I have no idea how to do it. How can I do this? Which interface i need? Where get the documentation?
If you are on Windows 10, you can TRY this (without needing a program):
Open up your Windows's Settings
Go to Time & Language
In there, you can adjust your preferred languages for your Windows (apps, websites, regional format, keyboard,...)
You can install other language packs if you need to.
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For some programs like MS OFfice you get the VBA, Chrome you would get Javascript, if you activate the Bash for Ubuntu on Windows then you can get bash. Not sure if that is default.
In particular, if you didn't have administration rights over a Windows 10 laptop but needed a programming language... what could you use or do about it?
ie I wanted Ruby installed but I needed our tech team to help me. I want to avoid someone else with higher access but also not breach policy.
Out of the box no install solutions include:
(To be written using text file editing software like the preinstalled notepad)
Batch (.bat)
Visual basic script (.vbs)
HTML (.html)
CSS (^Use a style tag for the HTML doc)
JavaScript (.js)
Some quick gets include:
Bash (Ubuntu from Windows Store)
AutoHotKey (from autohotkey.com)
#Code (Windows Store. Apparently supports 12 different languages)
Hope this helps!
Edit: If you really wanna try, you can edit .exe files directly but yeesh.
Edit 2: repl.it is a website that lets you code in tons of different languages, possibly Ruby. With repl.it you can do all the things I've listed and more! (As long as you have alright internet.)
what could you use
You could use pretty much any languages. Any compiled executables looks the same to the OS as any other.
The only catch is that some languages' runtime libraries are quite big, so it's common for smaller programs not to include the entire language runtime and instead expects it to be preinstalled on the machine to keep its own download size small.
However, even high level scripting languages that requires huge runtime support libraries can often be packaged into standalone executable, so that you don't need to install the runtime yourself.
Ultimately it depends on what you wanted to do. If you wanted to just make simple scripts, probably .bat scripts will do just fine. If you wanted something simple and fast, then you can write native executable in C, otherwise if you want to do something a bit more complex and you're fine with the larger download size if you can keep your own program simple, or if you can later get admin to preinstall your preferred runtime on your target machines, then high level languages like Python or Ruby would be great options.
I work in a secure data environment so my ability to install software is pretty limited. I have Notepad++, but don't have TextFx (and I read it doesn't work in the current version anyway). I don't have the Python plugin for Notepad++ either. No AHK, etc. OS is Windows XP.
I'm trying to find another way to write a basic script that I can use to insert a time and date stamp into any text editor. I did some googling but couldn't find any specific examples.
I noticed that Notepad uses F5 for date/time stamp, so I tried to find the file/code it uses for that, but no luck.
Any tips? Looking for something like a batch file I can assign a KB shortcut to use across text editors, Word, or whatever. Thanks!
What it sounds like you are looking for would be a key macro. The functionality you are describing is implemented within the program itself, and is not available for global usage throughout the OS.
As you are on Windows XP I am not sure what options are available without a software installation. There is no built in macro recorder for Windows XP unfortunately.
If you are in Word, then you could use the built in Office macros to accomplish this. How exactly depends on your version of Office.
I set my system locale language under "Region and Language" options in the Control Panel to Chinese, however it changes the default language for many of my English-default programs as well.
However, the most annoying thing is that, as I am also a developer, it changes many things in my command prompt command line displays to Chinese as well.
Does anyone know of a way to only change certain programs to use the Chinese system locale?
Please help.
Thanks
AppLocale
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13209
Additional procedure to install it in Vista or 7
http://www.mydigitallife.info/workaround-to-install-microsoft-applocale-utility-in-windows-vista/
Use a text UI library. The Curses library used to be a popular option, but it is limited by copyrights.
Fortunately, there is an uncopyrighted version available.
This is called the "Console" mode.
Depending on your development environment and language of choice, it can be as simple as Ctrl+Shift+N, "Console Project" (in Visual Studio), or tweaking compiler flags (for C++). Every IDE/language provide a way to do this.
In Windows, the Console operates in two ways. Firstly, any project can create, attach to, and modify any number of console windows whenever it wants. Secondly, with a special flag in the EXE, the project will start up already attached to a console.
The latter operates subtly differently from the former. If you want a "normal" console application, I strongly suggest against creating and attaching to consoles. Just use the Console mode compiler setting.
Clipper was a popular way to do this in DOS.
I guess this is an old Clipper program. I so, there is still active support and even GUI libraries. I suggest you try xharbour. It's not DOS anymore but pure windows based. There is a free version and a pay version (visual xHarbour). With this tool you can even access SQL databases and it's 100% clipper compatible.
my primary language is spanish, but I use all my software in english, including windows; however I'd like to use speech recognition in spanish.
Do you know if there's a way to use vista's speech recognition in other language than the primary os language?
Citation from Vista speech recognition blog:
In Windows Vista, Windows Speech
Recognition works in the current
language of the OS. That means that
in order to use another language for
speech recognition, you have to have
the appropriate language pack
installed. Language packs are
available as free downloads through
Windows Update for the Ultimate and
Enterprise versions of Vista. Once
you have the language installed,
you’ll need to change the display
language of the OS to the language you
want to use. Both of these are
options on the “Regional and Language
Options” control panel. You can look
in help for “Install a display
language” or “Change the display
language”.
To complete aku's answer, you have here different methods to have a "multilingual use in Vista".
Installing a language pack
Switching to a different language (and back)
Creating computer users. Create a user for each language and change the display language for that user to the language of your preference. A new Speech profile will be automatically created for that user. Switch between your languages by the normal procedure of “switching to another user” (Log offà Switch users).
Note: You can create a speech recognition profile for each user with any name you prefer. Change the name, or create a new user, in the Advanced Speech panel.
COMMENTS:
The advantage of the Separate Users method is that you can switch back and forth without changing any computer defaults.
The disadvantages are that it takes more disk space and more attention must be given to user management, and that you may not have access to files opened or saved by your other users unless you know how to give yourself such an access via the new permission dialogues of Windows Vista.
You should look at System.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine - it's an 'in-proc' recognizer that will let you specify the language you want.
Your next problem is that en-US Vista doesn't ship with the spanish recognition engine. For that, you'll need the Spanish Language Pack. Once you install that, you should be able to instantiate a spanish recognition engine like this:
using System.Speech.Recognition;
SpeechRecognitionEngine recognizer = new SpeechRecognitionEngine(new CultureInfo("es-ES"));
At that point, you can install grammars & do recognitions, etc.
Sure, but I want to do it without
changing the display language... no
way then?
No, not officially, if you believe this KB article: The Windows Speech Recognition language must be the same as the operating system language in Windows Vista.
So try to change it automatically, there some scripts on the internet, I found them via yahoo with Windows Speech Recognition "change language".
This one looks interesting, but it is not tested. I don't know, if it's malware or whatever, so be carefull:
Vistalizator
Good luck!
You can install the language pack, but not apply it on your user. Then you might be able to change the language of the speech recognition, although I haven't tried it since I don't have Vista Ultimate.
It will work fine as I had by changing lanuguage support.