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What does “%s” symbol in Flag column mean?

This symbol in Flag column of Translation Sheet indicates a message string. Message function is used to display messages to the user. These messages may be informational, warnings, confirms or whatever. For example, the user may be shown an error message, and be allowed to abort, retry or cancel the erroneous process. If your application is written in Delphi responsible function for displaying messages is is “MessageDLg”. I suppose all developers know what is this, while I’m programming lamer, so I don’t quote here detailed definitions of this.
Sisulizer tries automatically to detect message items and indicates these detected items in Flag column of Translation Sheet.

Additionally, if you use “Text Editor” pane, you can find information about it in “Row info” box.

Of course, you can change it, if Sisulizer incorrectly marked a string as message or does not detect a message. You can do it via “Row” menu -> “Message string” sub-menu or via Translation sheet context menu (on attached screenshot).

Information about message strings are also displayed in “Statistics” pane, if you have checked “Summary” option for this pane.

Janusz

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