RightToLeft - how do you set it!?!

[AndyGroom]

Hi,

My boss has asked me to see if I can recompile our VB application for the Arabic market. I know that textboxes (for example) have a RightToLeft property but in non-bidirectional versions of Windows you can't seem to set this property to True.

So my question is this - does anyone know if Arabic windows defaults textboxes to go right to left (and I as a programmer don't have to do any recompiling) or do I have to buy Arabic Windows and install VB on it so that I can recompile the project with all the RightToLeft properties set to True?


- Andy
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[CCLINT]

Maybe these will help some:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/columns/010/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/dev/muiapp.mspx

 

[chiph]

You probably need Arabic Windows and Arabic VB.

Arabic is an unusual language where the letters go from right-to-left, but numbers go from left-to-right.

Chip H.


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[AndyGroom]

Thanks for the pointers, I guess I need Arabic windows as a bare minimum - which will be fun since I can't speak English properly let alone Arabic!

As for Arabic VB - surely that's the same as English VB but with an Arabic UI?


- Andy
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