Where do I translate MFC message boxes

Question

I'm localizing an MFC app into Japanese, and have the resources working right.

My current problem is that, when I use AfxMessageBox or MessageBox, the dialog title and button messages come up in English, and I haven't found anywhere to change that.

I haven't found anything useful searching MSDN or Google.

So,

Does this work? Does Windows come up with "OK" or "Yes/No" buttons in Japanese, Arabic, and Russian?

If not, what do I specify to change these?

Edit: I went with MessageBoxEx, writing a wrapper class to make it as convenient to use as AfxMessageBox. It does appear that MB_OK comes up as "OK" in both English and Japanese, but other button options like MB_YESNO are translated into something that I assume is correct Japanese. This was a fairly small application to translate, and we might want to use something automated for the larger ones.

Answer 1

Use MessageBoxEx and specify the WORD wLanguageId field.

wLanguageId [in] Specifies the language for the text displayed in the message box button(s). Specifying a value of zero (0) indicates to display the button text in the default system language. If this parameter is MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL), the current language associated with the calling thread is used.

To specify a language other than the current language, use the MAKELANGID macro to create this parameter. For more information, see MAKELANGID.

More information on MAKELANGID can be found here.

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If this does not work well for you, the alternative would be to make your own dialog box.