Re: i18n with swixml

Actually, much thought went into the internationalization capabilities 
of Swixml.
Swixml's SwingEngine can be reconfigured - the locale can be changed - 
at runtime. However, if Strings, Labels etc. have been rendered 
already, you need to re-render the UI. (See SwingEngine.getLocalizer() 
etc)

In one of the internationalized apps I work with user profiles.
The user get presented a Login screen, using the server's default 
locale.
After login, the Swixml based client app pulls the user profile from a 
database and changes to the locale stored in the profile.

There is also a simple example available here:
http://www.swixml.org/samples/index.html (#5)


On Feb 4, 2004, at 11:57 PM, patt reveur wrote:

> Hello
>
> This is my first contribution tu this mailing liste but i would like 
> to give my opinion on your remark Frank.
>
> I use swixml for a while now and I am very happy with it.
>
> But about internationalization, you should know that many countries 
> like Belgium, EAU and others use more than one signle language and are 
> happy to switch from one to the other in a single click.
>
> This is really a major point in a product competition in those 
> countries.
>
> So. please, do not be so strict on the use of the Locale. This set of 
> Classes are very importante.
>
> Regards
> patt
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Frank Meißner <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and 
> Products<[email protected]>
> To: List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and 
> Products<[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Forum] i18n with swixml
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 08:24:01 +0100
>
> Kovács Lajos wrote:
>>   Hello everybody!
>>
>>  I started to use the swixml and it seems to be a very powerfull tool.
>> Congratulation!
>>
>>  I have a question about the internationalization (i18n) technique 
>> with
>> swixml. I see that there are two custom tags, "bundle" and "locale" 
>> for
>> this reason. Unfortunately not woking as I expected.
>>
>>  I want to change online the strings on the GUI according to the 
>> selected
>> Locale (ex. selecting from a combobox). I made a resource bundle and 
>> I put
>> it as an attribute for the root tag. For the other tags (ex. button) 
>> for
>> the text I use only the keys from the bundle's property files. This is
>> working well, the buttons shows the local texts.
>>
>>   1) But how can I change it after the parsing? I can made in the 
>> code again
>> the resource bundle and set for all the texts but this is wrong. 
>> Exist a
>> way to reach or change the resource bundle made by the parser and 
>> only make
>> a refresh for the GUI.
>
> Hello,
>
> IMHO the only option you have is to render the GUI again. I did not do 
> this in practice, though. The way swixml handles the locale issue is 
> to respect the locale coming from the system at program startup. This 
> is fine and IMHO fits the normal usage of a program. Sure it is a cool 
> thing to change the locale in your program and everything (dates, 
> numbers, scrollbars, ...) will suddenly change. But this is not a 
> customer cares for... Correct me if I'm wrong...
>
>>
>>   2) The components doesn't inherit the Local setting from the root 
>> tag, so
>> all the texts will be arabic, for example, but the scrollpane doesn't 
>> shows
>> the scroll bar in the left side. For this need to specially add a 
>> Locale
>> attribute to the scrollbar. But in this way, you need to specify the 
>> Local
>> many places in the XML file, instead of one place the root tag.
>>   It would be a good approach to use for all the tags the main (root 
>> tag's)
>> Local, if no one is specified.
>
> There is no inheritance in respect to the locale. The way I would 
> solve this requires adding a property change listener to your root 
> component. This has to be a subclass of JComponent (which it usually 
> is) so you have the method addPropertyChangeSupport(String, 
> PropertyChangeListener)
> This method you call with the string "Locale" and a 
> PropertyChangeListener which does in its propertyChange method the 
> following: Foreach component of rootComponent.getComponents() set the 
> locale according to the one the user selected. If the component you 
> set the locale for happens to be a container as well, iterate through 
> its subcomponents as well.
>
>
>>
>>  Has anybody some ideea, how can I resolve this problems?
>
> Hope this gave you some ideas ;)
>
> Frank
>>
>>  Best Regards,
>>  Lajos
>>
>>
>>
>>
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