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Wed, 07 March 2012 19:47

Eclipse User

what's the best way to internationalize the code generated with WB, yet not inhibit the capability of using the visual editor?

for example, if i create a label "Name", the code generated by WB will have a line like this:
JLabel nameLabel = new JLabel("User Name:");

Now I want to I18N it. I will create a key for the info:
static String NAME_KEY = "NAME_KEY";

and i will have code for retrieving the proper text based on the key. but how do i put the retrieved text back into the code, without impact on the visual editing capability?

I am thinking of a post init process as a solution. but I'd like to here some advice first.

Re: Strategy for I18N [message #815740 is a reply to message #815710]

Wed, 07 March 2012 20:39

Eclipse User

Have you tried reading the "Internationalization (i18n) / Localization" section of the WB docs?

Re: Strategy for I18N [message #816197 is a reply to message #815740]

Thu, 08 March 2012 09:41

Eclipse User

Not really.
I've just checked, and found a section within the "features" heading. looks promising. Will go through it and see how that works.
Thanks a lot.

sma

Re: Strategy for I18N [message #816381 is a reply to message #816197]

Thu, 08 March 2012 14:41

Eclipse User

Ok. I tried the feature and it works. Now I have a different question.

My codebase has this weird structure for i18n:
/src
/i18n

the i18n folder contains all the message.properties files. for compatibility reason, I need to use this structure. the issue now is that, with WB, it can only see the /src folder as its source. Is there any way to enable the WB to see more? By the way, as you might have already guessed it, the /i18n is on the class path. it's just not visible to WB.

your help is very much appreciated.

sma

Re: Strategy for I18N [message #817694 is a reply to message #816381]

Sat, 10 March 2012 08:45

Eclipse User

This works for me.
If it does not work for you - test case could be helpful.

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