How to switch between languages in a multilanguage project

January 6, 2017

The Reliance SCADA/HMI system supports multilanguage projects. In this technical article, you will learn how to switch between languages in such projects.

Instructions

1. Add one or more languages to your visualization project. To do that, use the Project Options > Languages dialog.

Project Options

2. Choose the Managers > String Manager command.

3. In the String Manager, translate the text strings into the respective languages. If you need to send the text strings to a translator, send them a text file located in the <Project>\Main\Strings directory. They are Unicode text files.

String Manager

There are several ways of how to switch the project language during runtime:

1. By choosing the File > Project Language command from the runtime software's main menu.

Project Language

This command invokes the Select Project Language dialog box.

Select Project Language

2. By using an action of type Activate project language.

Action Manager

3. By calling the RSys.SetProjectLanguage method from a script.

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