Language bundles in separate plugin ?

[jhanus]

Hello all,
I'm trying to follow RCP recommendation and put NLS strings into resource bundles, into separate plugin fragment. Property files should be placed in the root of the fragment. Is it possible to make the Designer understand that? It seems to me that the Designer (the "New NLS strings source") can work with property files in some class package only and also it must be inside the same plugin. When i clear the "package" field ("New NLS strings source"/Modern eclipse message class) then the Designer says that its invalid.
The layout I'd like to achieve is:

my.company.plugin.gui/ ... the plugin project
META-INF/...
src/some/package/MyDialog.java

my.company.plugin.gui.nl/ ... the plugin fragment project
META-INF/...
MyDialog.properties

Would it be possible with SWT Designer ?

thanks a lot for info,
jiri

[Konstantin.Scheglov]

Hm... Can you give URL with this recommendation? AFAIK you should place in root only plugin.properties, with strings that need in plugin.xml. All other *.properties files should be in their packages, near to UI forms that use them.

[jhanus]

The source is: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article ... 2I18n.html
...and, yes, i wasnt really accurate, because they are using real package and not the plugin root for the properties file placement.
But the point is that the swt designer doesn't see the property file outside the plugin where the dialog class is. If I put properties into the same package as the dialog class and in the same plugin, everything works fine. The problem is when the property file is in the same package but in different plugin. In runtime it works fine.
jiri

[Konstantin.Scheglov]

I've added support for *.properties files in fragments.

You will need to download latest build.

[jhanus]

Thank you very much ! Thats really great, it is what I suppose the support should be at the best :]

jiri

[Eric Clayberg]

Thanks!