last
update
July 19,
2005
My
translations:
translations:
 
 
                
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"Ideas from creativity, technical
skills from experience and hard work from passion: these are the three
key components required to make high quality entertainment software. But...
"and the money?" someone could ask. Well, the money is the invisible
glue keeping together that C-like expression and it only comes from satisfied
customers.
That's how things work in this crazy, yet so fascinating, little wired
world!"
| Wishlist |
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Once you've got your Full version
of Ecpc you'll surely have your own ideas and suggestions
on how to improve it.
So help me making it better and send those suggestions to the address
you find in the contacts page.
Here's a list of to do things I put together during the last testing
phase of Ecpc and on which I'm already working on. You can
also tell me which features among these you'd like to see completed
first and I'll change their priority accordingly.
| New
languages |
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Do you want to see Ecpc
translated into your language? Well, if you can help about
that don't hesitate to contact
me.
There's a Special
Edition of Ecpc waiting for you and the users
of the Viewer ( Unregistered ) version will be able
to fully benefit from your hard work.
Please remember that the precedence goes to languages spoken
in the countries of the European Monetary Union.
Here's the current list of the translations, their status
and the name of the people taking care of them:
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Language
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Translator
Name
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Translation
Status
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Albegor
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Done
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Albegor
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Done
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Heiko Heubach
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Done
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Bruno Figueiredo
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Done
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Richard Davy
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Done
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Henko Gardebroek
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Done
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Rafael Córdoba
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Almost completed!
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 I
recommend using EmEditor
to translate the language files of Ecpc, since it's a
powerful text editor with full Unicode
support and some great features such as a Multiple Document
Interface to easily manage many opened files, keyword highlighting
and some useful plug-ins. An efficient software with a clean
and well designed user interface to say the least. 
What's more EmEditor
is free for Academic and Technical use, so feel free to request
your registration key through the proper form on the website
if you're eligible for such kind of use.
Yutaka Emura of Emurasoft
confirmed me that my volunteer
translators are eligible to get a registration key for free,
thanks Yutaka!
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| Support
for other platforms |
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Yes, I'm going to port Ecpc
to other platforms.
Although it has been initially designed for PDAs, a version
for Windows desktop PCs is in the works, while a version for
PalmOS is becoming a concrete possibility.
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| More
Coin Attributes |
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An additional field to store
the condition of the coins is one of the most requested features,
so I consider it a high priority task and will be included
in the next version of the application. A "Wanted"
coin mark, designed to make coin swapping even easier, is
also planned for the next release.
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| Better
data compression |
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Storage space on PDAs is very
precious for every user, and I kept that well in mind while
developing Ecpc.
There's already a lot of compressed data in the pack file
EcpcGfxRes.dat, however I think that by implementing
a better compression algorithm I can shrink its size even
more, without affecting the program performance too much.
The file system of the Pocket PC already uses some
kind of compression, but from my tests it turned out to be
a very light compression, so my improvement still has a good
reason to be.
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| New
coin variants info |
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Although the data about coin
variants comes through an accurate research, the Latin saying
"errare humanum est" (making mistakes is
a human thing), still holds a lot o truth! 
So if you spotted any error or you have any interesting new
info about coin variants, feel free to contact
me and I'll add it to the next release of Ecpc.
At the moment I'm particularly interested in detailed information
about the 10 cents Italian coin with the missing Mint mark
R and the two variants of the Austrian 2 Euro coin.
Please remember, as explained in the online documentation,
that Ecpc only considers coin variants, not errors.
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//Always close your opened parenthesis both in the code and in real
life ;-)
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