When is the internationalization feature available?

[ihhur]

I've read on this forum as following;
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Yes, Designer will support internationalization, but we don't know yet how. Here are some ideas:
1. It will not support complex expressions like you show, i.e. only single expression will be supported;
2. Most probably it will support "Externalize string" feature of Eclipse, i.e. will look for something like Messages.getString("Test.0"), parse class Messages and then read real strings from property file.
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This is very enough for me, and I'm wondering when I will be able to use it!

[Eric Clayberg]

I've read on this forum as following;
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Yes, Designer will support internationalization, but we don't know yet how. Here are some ideas:
1. It will not support complex expressions like you show, i.e. only single expression will be supported;
2. Most probably it will support "Externalize string" feature of Eclipse, i.e. will look for something like Messages.getString("Test.0"), parse class Messages and then read real strings from property file.
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This is very enough for me, and I'm wondering when I will be able to use it!

It's been available for more than five months now. SWT Designer supports the standard string externalization tools provided with Eclipse. From the v1.2.0 release notes...

Support for externalized strings. If you used "Externalize strings"
action in Eclipse, Designer will parse access to method "getString",
parse class with messages for property file name and read needed
strings from property file.

Does that do what you want?

[ihhur]

I tried to use Eclispe "externalize string" feature but it changed local strings(korean) into unicode which is not recognizable by developers.

So, I made a class which just stores key - value pairs hash map which extends ListResourceBundle. (which means I won't be using eclipse feature)

But I failed to see any strings stored in hash map from swt-designed dialogs.

Would you please explain how can I accomplish this?

[Eric Clayberg]

I tried to use Eclispe "externalize string" feature but it changed local strings(korean) into unicode which is not recognizable by developers.

Once the strcuture is created by the Externalize Strinsg wizard, can't you edit the strings to be anything you like? Did Designer show the extracted strings properly?

Would you please explain how can I accomplish this?

You would need to adapt the results of the Externalize Strings wizard as that is the only approach currently supported by Designer.

[pcarmichael]

I tried creating a Dialog, and added some buttons, then did the Eclipse Externalize Strings (in English). This put the strings into a property file, and put :

Messages.getString("foo.1")

in its place.
When I tried to view it in Designer it showed a button with

Messages.getString("foo.1")

as the button text, instead of the replacement string.

[Eric Clayberg]

When I tried to view it in Designer it showed a button with

Messages.getString("foo.1")

as the button text, instead of the replacement string.

Which version/build of Designer? That should work in the latest v2.0.0 build.