Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Mark" Subject: Re: Internationalization Message-ID: <479A291C.3090907@noaa.gov> X-Comment-To: Bent C Dalager Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.gui In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 33 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:42:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303918966 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:42:46 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:42:46 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.gui:3071 To: Bent C Dalager > > No, you use resource bundles and possibly the MessageFormat class for > this. > > See > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html > and > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html > > This way, your code may change from something like > button.setText("Apply"); > to > button.setText(bundle.getString("button.apply")); > > And you will have a Strings.properties file that would contain, > amongst other things, > > button.apply = Apply > > Then you might have one Strings_es_ES.properties file with Spanish > strings, etc. > > Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for! TY! Mark --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24