How can I change the language in AfxMessageBox?

Question

I have an MFC app that uses AfxMessageBox to display message boxes. The app itself lets an end-user to change the user interface language. On the inside it does so by loading resources using LCIDs (or FindResourceEx API.) My issue is that I can't seem to make AfxMessageBox to take LCID to change the language for OK, Cancel buttons, etc. This also affects File and Folder Open dialog windows.

Any ideas how to do this?

PS. This approach must work under Windows XP and up.

Answer 1

According to this SO article , there are no standard functions for this, there's a link to a CodeProject article " Localizing System MessageBox " with source code for a DLL (it's in c# but seems simple enough to be rewritten in C++) which uses Windows Hook so that you can supply your own text for the MessageBox buttons; there's even a suggestion for sizing buttons to the text in the discussion part of the same article.