Scan Files
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After selecting a project on the main form the tool is ready to start scanning your project files. scanning does not alter your files in any way.

To scan a single file (Recommended) select a file from the Project Files listbox and click Scan File. If the project is small or if revisiting the project after making some changes then using Scan All Files can be a quick method to add changes made to the scanned files list.

This starts the scan process for that file. The scan checks the file line by line for any text in double quotes. As each text is found in the file it is first compared to all the texts in the Ignore file if it is found in the ignore file the scan moves on to the next text or line. If the text is not found in the ignore file then it is compared to all the text the applications language file in the selected language. If not found in the language file a translate dialog is raised:-

Translate Dialog
Figure 3. Translate Dialog

This asking whether to include this text in the language or ignore files. Clicking yes will addthis to the language file in the selected language, clicking No will add the text to the Ignore file. In the case shown the text is the include filename for the Locale so clicking No is correct as this should not be translated.

A cancel button will be added here in afuture release to stop the scan process at any time.

After the scan if all texts have been found either in the language file or Ignore file then the filename will be added to the scanned files listbox. If some text was not found then the file does not appear. Simply rescan the file to move it to the Scanned files listbox.