Comments on: Quick Tip 24: Changing the Language on the fly

By: ren

ren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:13:26 +0000

Oh, no. It’s fail again…
In fact, in layer.xml, you need to set the localizing attribute for the menu folder which you want to translate.
(attr name=”SystemFileSystem.localizingBundle” stringvalue=”org.yours.module.Bundle”)

By: ren

ren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:03:05 +0000

Why my last post display incomplete? I repost the “layer.xml” as following.
—— layer.xml ——
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By: ren

ren — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:16:56 +0000

I found it is not necessary to force a refresh, you can do it like this:
Frame main = WindowManager.getDefault().getMainWindow();
assert main != null;
if (main instanceof JFrame) {
Component[] cs = ((JFrame)main).getJMenuBar().getComponents();
for (Component c : cs) {
Runnable menu = (Runnable)c;
menu.run();
}
}
but in this way, you should localizing like this:

—— layer.xml ——–

…

—– Bundle.properties ——-
Menu/XXX=english menutitle
…

—– Bundle_zh_CN.properties ——-
Menu/XXX=chinese menutitle
…

By: Jean-Claude Dauphin

Jean-Claude Dauphin — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:35:09 +0000

Hi Toni,

Thank you very much for this tip. The presentation on localization would be a great contribution.

I have a problem for displaying Tamil Text in a JTextPane with a document derived from DefaultStyledDocument.

Arabic is well displayed but Tamil gives boxes. I suppose it is a font problem, would you
have any idea how yo solve this pb

JCD

By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:26:33 +0000

Localization is extremely important. I do have a presentation on this, which I could contribute…

By: Geertjan

Geertjan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:04:01 +0000

Ah, now I get it. I think we should consider including a session on localization in our NetBeans Platform Certified Trainings. We could talk about NbBundle, about the Internationalization wizard, about the ‘branding’ folder, about putting localized texts in separate modules, etc etc.

By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:08:38 +0000

For support. E.g. if someone has a problem with an application rendered in a language or character set you can’t read and you would like to support him. Then it’s very useful being able to change the language while the application is running, so you can take over and work with it. I had this request from customers who create localizations in many languages including chinese.

By: Geertjan

Geertjan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:41:42 +0000

But when would one want to do that? If you suddenly turn into a French person after you started the application as a Japanese person?

By: Toni

Toni — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:16:57 +0000

This only helps to brand an application, it doesn’t help when trying to change language while the application is already running…

By: Geertjan

Geertjan — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:53:52 +0000

Couldn’t you also find the Bundle.properties file where the strings are found and then override them in the application’s ‘branding’ folder?