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Mon, 15 September 2008 04:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ahmad.alobaidy.gmail.com

is there any APIs to change the settings in the eclipse.ini file?
to change the interface language from english to arabic for example for
example?

Re: Configuration APIs [message #331641 is a reply to message #331636]

Mon, 15 September 2008 08:08

Eclipse User

Ahmad Al-Obaidy wrote:
> is there any APIs to change the settings in the eclipse.ini file?
> to change the interface language from english to arabic for example for
> example?

Check out
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/runtime-options.html

You should be able to change the language using the -nl option

PW

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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: Configuration APIs [message #331659 is a reply to message #331641]

Mon, 15 September 2008 20:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ahmad.alobaidy.gmail.com

Sorry for not being clear.
What I meant is having APIs to change the eclipse.ini setting from within
the code...

I want to add perefererances page which allow the user to choose the UI
language of the program.

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:galjjb$gnc$2@build.eclipse.org...
> Ahmad Al-Obaidy wrote:
>> is there any APIs to change the settings in the eclipse.ini file?
>> to change the interface language from english to arabic for example for
>> example?
>
> Check out
> http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/runtime-options.html
>
> You should be able to change the language using the -nl option
>
> PW
>
> --
> Paul Webster
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
> http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

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