The Text Dictionary is a powerful, convenient way to build multi-lingual mobile and web applications.

The 'Text Dictionary' tag is a language tag that can be used to lookup up the tag definition in a SQL table - the 'Text Dictionary Table'. This makes it easy to internationalize your application.

You can now use text dictionary tags (...) to internationalize the labels in a report.

When you create a standard .a5w page, you might want to use text dictionary tags in your pages. This can easily be done if you make a change to how your .a5w page is constructed.

You can now insert text dictionary tags in Layout Table reports defined at the Project level. Workspace reports do not support Text Dictioanries.

Alpha Anywhere provides the following Dictionary functions.

Methods for the dictionary object. The [DICTIONARY.CREATE()] and [DICTIONARY.OPEN()] methods return standard table pointers, which means that you may use other table methods to work with the dictionary.

Show Text Dictionary tags (...) used in this component.

Show Text Dictionary tags (...) used in this component.