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Running English JSL Scripts on a French PC

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I have about twenty JSL scripts that need to be able to run on PCs around the world. To date I've had no difficulty running them anywhere, including Germany and Japan; however I've recently hit problems in France. I initially tried running them on French installations of both JMP 8 and JMP 9, and assumed - I think correctly - that the problem was simply that some of the functions were returning French text as opposed to English text. However, I have now tried installing JMP from an English installation file, selecting only English language options, on one of these machines, and have hit the same problem again.

The following few lines of script illustrate what's happening, in a situation where I'm loading a column of names and at least one numeric variable from one of the build-in data sets, and then want to test to see if I've pressed the "Proceed" button:

open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp");

VarList = ColumnDialog(Title("Select Raw Data Columns:"),

Rfac = ColList("Name ID", Max Col(1)),

Yvar = ColList("Variable(s)", Min Col(1), DataType(Numeric))

);

Proceed = char(VarList[nItems(VarList)]);

show(Proceed);

if(Proceed=="Button(1)",

ResponseList = VarList["Yvar"];

show(ResponseList)

);

However, when the user does press the Proceed button, what is returned isn't "Button(1)" but "Bouton(1)" - obviously because "bouton" is French for "button". Now, obviously I could just find all instances of this sort of problem and allow for both possibilities, but (a) I don't know how many problems of a similar nature I'm likely to encounter, and (b) I don't know whether I'm going to hit the same problem again on PCs in any other country.

So, I need to prevent JMP returning French responses, even when the installation is carried out entirely in English. Does anyone know how I can do that?

Many thanks

Accepted answers

gbu

Hi David,

Sorry for my late answer, variable name is LanguagePref.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAS Institute Inc.\JMP\9.0\Options]
"LanguagePref"="en"

Regards,

Guillaume

All comments

gbu

Hi,

I have the same problem. Even if you don't install the french langage, JMP use windows langage settings to identify the langage for JMP.

The only way is to modify preferences for your French users. In windows specifics choose English.

Maybe a script command can do that... If you find it, could you tell me ?

Regards,

Guillaume

Jeff_Perkinson

David and Guillaume,

Please contact our Technical Support department (support@jmp.com) for assistance with these issues.

Thanks!

Jeff

unknown

Thanks Jeff - I've now submitted a copy of this thread to Technical Support, and I'll post their reply.

Cheers,

David

David_Burnham

David

One thing you should test out is the "Save Scripts In English" option under the General tab of File > Preferences.

This option controls whether JMP generated scripts are in English or the local language. I don't know if it influences responses from dialogs but its worth checking out.

Dave

gbu

Hi David,

Did you have a response of technical support or may I contact support too ?

Thanks

Guillaume

unknown

... and that can be done from script within JMP 9:

// Get a list of all preferences in JMP 9;

get preferences();

// Get current setting for saving scripts in English;

get preferences(Save Scripts in English);

// Change it if necessary, and make sure it's done it;

set preferences(Save Scripts in English(1));

get preferences(Save Scripts in English);

// Change it back again if you want to;

set preferences(Save Scripts in English(0));

get preferences(Save Scripts in English);

I can't see a way to do the same thing in JMP 8 however, and have forwarded the question of whether that can be done to Support. I suspect it can't, but I'll be happy to be proved wrong. Dave - thanks for the tip: I find that I look at the preferences so rarely after a new version is up and running that I forget what's in them.

PS: I've also now started taking my scripts to pieces at last, and have at least a partial answer to the original problem, i.e. that of why they aren't running on the French PC, even when the preferences are set as above. Two little gems surfaced almost immediately:

On a few occasions I'd used the "Main Menu" command to do things like closing every open window, i.e. Main Menu("Close All"). On the French PC however, that needs to be Main Menu("Tout Fermer"), because the menu commands are displayed in French. I'm therefore now going through my scripts removing all such constructions.

Secondly, I make use of the Fit Model platform in several of my scripts, and generate ANOVA tables from which I then extract an assortment of summary statistics for subsequent use. For example, to set the format of the residual mean square column, I've used:

column(AOVTable, "Mean Square") << format("Fixed Dec", 10, 2)

This works in English - but not in French, because the label of that particular column of the ANOVA table isn't "Mean Square" but "Carré moyen". The moral is evidently not to use the label to identify the column when it's referenced in script: it's the 4th column of the table wherever it's run, so the way to avoid the problem is to refer to it as column(AOVTable, 4), instead of by using its name.

I've no doubt I'll find others, but I suspect they'll all be the same sort of thing.

David

gbu

Hello,

For me the solution is to use English version, even if windows system is in French.

I contact the french support.

Below the answer :

in regedit modify the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAS Institute Inc.\JMP\9.0\Options with en instead of fr.

With this modification, all users have the same langage and all scripts work fine

Guillaume

unknown

Hi Guillaume,

I've just tried duplicating what you've described above, using the "regedit" command from the Windows "Run" command line, but I cannot see any registry variable within HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SAS Institute Inc.\JMP\9.0\Options which takes the value either "fr" or "en". Can you tell me what the name of that variable is, please? It sounds as if you have indeed found the answer; it's just that one final piece of information that I need to try it out on my PC here.

Many thanks,

David