Support Statement: updating (of ignoring) a custom meta-language file during translation

Setting a task-specific metalang option

Normally a project-specific metalang applies to all translations and is updated on demand.  

you may update or ignore the custom metalang file on a task by task basis by setting the Translation Script field:

TScript

Translation script template name.

Optionally the Tscript value may be of the form template/option

where option is gmBasic command line options and/or special processing options.

The special processing options are :

  • makemetalang: rebuilds the metalang file before running the translation.
    The tool will rebuild the metalang file from a project-specific vb7lang,xml script in the usr folder.

  • startdefault: use the default metalang file even if the tool is configured to use a project-specific metalang file.

One way to add this option is using the Edit Task Attributes dialog:

See also

Custom VB6 Language Replacement