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[yogiholzer]

The attraction was to build a table completely on my own.
I had to realise that that is unaccessible for me.
I don't want to use samples/models/patterns.
That wouldn't feel right in my conception.

[sleepy]

It bothers me that we have an International Community of pinball players and VP is still 'English-Only".
It bothers me because Randy started VP with the intent of offering VP in English, Spanish, and in German, and it all got lost somewhere. The source code for Visual Pinball still contains basic versions for those languages.

It Really Bothers Me that I can remember talking about computer languages in 1960 and how the computer language is only for the good of the user because the language has to be translated to the computer's system of Numbers to be of use.
The words and the human languages do not even matter to the computer at all; only that the human language is correctly translated to the Numbers that the computer uses.

So it Really Bothers Me that I can remember talking about computer languages in 1960, flipping 1960, and how the languages should be written in The Native Language of each country, for the good of the user. For All People.
And yet the companies who provide our computer languages do not care at all to write the programming languages in any language but English.

Sure, Microsoft will provide Windows in a hundred different languages for the good of the user, but they and others still have not written the programming languages in any other world languages which give the user the control of their computer. That Windows can be written in a thousand different languages and still run on any computer only proves that those who are in power mean to restrict the use of computer programming languages to all people.

[sleepy]

And I want to clarify something.

The talk in 1960 was that, because the human language was a matter of the user's own language as an easy interface to writing computer code, there was an idea to write the user interface in the International languages of the world; all languages. But the system would allow for reverse translation from computer code to whatever language the user uses, so no one would be left to learn any other language but that of the computer syntax while at the same time, the computer syntax would be as close as possible to everyday speaking languages, like BASIC. Except it would be BASIC translated to English, or translated to Spanish. Or translated to German, depending on the user's preferences.

But I suspect that it was not done that way because of the extra file sizes, though I believe that larger file sizes would be limited to the program translating the languages, not the computer scripts themselves.
The computer scripts would still be in the Numerical language of a computer, at the same size.

[yogiholzer]

Oops, that's difficult to translate, sorry.

However, if all the programs would/could use standardised language files just for the user interface
that was an not to underrate improvement.

[Itchigo]

Actually vp isn't english only. I learned vari targets from a vp table not even in english.
This is from Big Indian, 2001.

Rem          Modification de la routine d'affichage, de gestion et d'initialisation des scores.
Rem          Modification du graphique et de la routine du vari-target.
Rem          Nouvelles images (bumper,backglass,playfield) et suppression de certain sons.
Rem 01/08/01 Version 1.0
Rem

Ball = 0
Bonus = 0
Compteur = 0
Credit = 0
Joueur_Actuel = 0
Last_Ball = 3
Loterie = 0

[sleepy]

Not exactly.
Those are comments and Dims which can be written in any language because they are custom names chosen by the script author. As long as you refer to the name as written by you, the language does not matter.

Does that script use French or English when the script says Sub Bumper1_Hit()?
Does it use statements such as "If ActiveBall = True Then
or "End Sub" instead of *I'm guessing* "Fin"?

[Itchigo]

Test post.

[faralos]

I have built around 25 tables or so already (three years now)
and don't know squat about FS or cabs
that is but another part of this hobby but not needed for anyone to build a pin
pin making is fun and requires only that you really want to make a pin
 you don't need anything else to start with
I started not knowing anything about well... most anything
and now I use Gimp2 religiously as well as WavePad Pro for sounds
but there are free versions of wavepad too for those of you who don't/can't pay for it
I can use PS but really prefer Gimp due to the ease of getting started in it
PS has a steep learning curve imo
I learned (and am still learning!) the coding for these pins
but to start just tear into an existing pin to learn how everything works
I travel to numerous websites for sounds/pics
saving as I go
I also tend to steal music off Youtube saving it through a Mozzilla app
then redoing it in wavepad either to shorten it or to make it sound better
or to save it in a different format so it will work in vp
all this in only three years and I even have learning disabilities
so for the normal person it may take even less time
(AKA Itchigo who learned all this in less than half the time it took me!
oh building a pin also requires a certain streak of masochism as well
and you may even learn a few new cuss words too!
Have fun though either playing or building
and post on any questions you have

[faralos]

oh btw my first pin I started only two months after  learning about vp