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Internationalization: Translating the application to the english?
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| I was thinking about internationalization of my small app. At this moment,
tooltips and captions of about 20 buttons , table and tree is wrote in a
code. So my question is what is the easiest procedure to add one more
language to the captions of my buttons and other component ?
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| Thomas Fritsch 2006-08-23, 8:02 am |
| Dado schrieb:
> I was thinking about internationalization of my small app. At this moment,
> tooltips and captions of about 20 buttons , table and tree is wrote in a
> code. So my question is what is the easiest procedure to add one more
> language to the captions of my buttons and other component ?
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>
You create several resource properties files (one per language),
for example:
your/package/Res.properties (default language resources)
your/package/Res_hr.properties (croatian resources)
your/package/Res_fr.properties (french resources)
your/package/Res_de.proeprties (german resources)
...
In your Java code you simply call
ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("your.package.Res");
which will magically load the resources of your system's language.
For more info see the API doc of class
java.util.ResourceBundle#getBundle. And for examples of the properties
files see the API doc of java.util.PropertyResourceBundle.
--
Thomas
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| Thomas Fritsch 2006-08-23, 8:02 am |
| Thomas Fritsch schrieb:
> In your Java code you simply call
> ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("your.package.Res");
> which will magically load the resources of your system's language.
I forgot to mention the most important part.
In your Java you change all hard-coded strings. For example:
button.setText("Cancel");
to
button.setText(bundle.getString("cancelText"));
assuming that you have a line
cancelText=....
in all of your resource properties files.
--
Thomas
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"Thomas Fritsch" <i.dont.like.spam@invalid.com> je napisao u poruci
interesnoj grupi:newscache$uheg4j$ejl$1@news.ops.de...
> Thomas Fritsch schrieb:
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> I forgot to mention the most important part.
> In your Java you change all hard-coded strings. For example:
> button.setText("Cancel");
> to
> button.setText(bundle.getString("cancelText"));
> assuming that you have a line
> cancelText=....
> in all of your resource properties files.
>
> --
> Thomas
So simple and I procrastinate internationalization so long. Thank you.
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| Oliver Wong 2006-08-24, 7:02 pm |
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"Thomas Fritsch" <i.dont.like.spam@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> Thomas Fritsch schrieb:
>
> I forgot to mention the most important part.
> In your Java you change all hard-coded strings. For example:
> button.setText("Cancel");
> to
> button.setText(bundle.getString("cancelText"));
> assuming that you have a line
> cancelText=....
> in all of your resource properties files.
Also, see http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/index.html
- Oliver
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