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Well, it seems I'm not done dealing with Internationalization issues in BottomFeeder. After posting the new builds, I still got reports that menu operation could be slow. I took a look at the process of UserMessage lookup, and found out what's going on down there. When a catalog is needed, the base directory specified ('catalog' in Bf) is expected to have sub-directories. What subdirectories? Well, that depends on the language setting and locale setting for your system. On my Windows XP box, with a US locale, it's looking for wither catalog\en or catalog\en_US. In Russia, that would translate to catalog\RU (and so on for other places). If there's no such directory, then the catalog is 'missing', and that's where the slowdown happens. Now, there may well be a better way to deal with this than what I just posted as an update (check the toolbar in Bf for downloadable updates), but it ought to work. At startup, Bf checks for the catalog that shipped with the install files, and for the directory structure that is expected on the system in question. If the expected directory structure doesn't exist, it will get created, and the English language catalog will get copied over. If there's a better way to deal with this, I'll make changes as appropriate. Eventually, if I get translated catalogs, I'll add settings to allow the user to specify the catalog to use.
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