Re: [soc-dev] [GSoC2014] : Eclipse Ideas

[Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nishant,

as I volunteer as mentor on this, you have several options to discuss. In first place you might want to discuss with me directly. If a concrete solution comes into play, you might want to start the discussion on the ticket itself, because there also other Eclipse developers, contributors and most important, the committers are getting involved.

As a starting point, here my first thoughts:

1. The translation registry should react on Locale changes automatically. Just like the application model will do with Luna. Therefore the first thoughts are to create a OSGi declarative service.

2. The definition should be independent from any UI toolkit. So no dependency to SWT for example.

3. The renderes might be a good location for the implementation. There the UI toolkit dependent stuff could be done. For example, in SWT the checks for disposal. Not sure what it would look like with JavaFX.

4. I thought of some kind of registry where you are registering the Control/Widget, the property that should be localized and the key that should be used for localization.

For example:

Label myLabel = new Label(parent, SWT.NONE);

translationRegistry.register(myLabel, "text", "my.label.text");

Which means, register the property "text" of the Control "myLabel" for the translation to be retrieved via "my.label.text" key.

There might be parallels to JFace Databinding.

Greez,

Dirk

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Nishant Gupta <nishantg2108@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

 I am Nishant Gupta, a student from IT BHU, India and intending to take part in GSoC 2014 for the first time. I was going through the Eclipse ideas page and I found the idea "Add TranslationRegistry to support the Eclipse Translation Pattern as a service" quiet interesting. I read up on the blog post link that is posted ( all 4 parts) and developed a basic understanding of what is required.

However, could anyone please provide me some direction as to where I could start working on this and what would be a good place to discuss my queries regarding this project. I'd like to do some work initially on this idea and then come up with a detailed proposal.

Looking forward to your reply,

Nishant Gupta

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