Ah ok, I see.
I was thinking that maybe there was a more subtle way of doing that.
Something like:
private Window window = null;
private BXMLSerializer bxmlSerializer = null;
public void startup() {
Resources resources = new Resources(getClass().getName(),
Locale.getDefault());
bxmlSerializer = new BXMLSerializer();
window =
(Window)bxmlSerializer.readObject(Localization.class.getResource("my_window.bxml"),
resources);
window.open(display);
}
private void setLocale(String lang) {
Locale.setDefault(new Locale(lang));
Resources resources = new Resources(getClass().getName(),
Locale.getDefault());
bxmlSerializer.Update/Reload(resources);
}
In fact the current state of my test application looks like :
public class Main implements Application {
Window myWindow = new Window();
public static void main(String[] args) {
DesktopApplicationContext.main(Main.class, args);
}
private void setLanguage(String lang) {
Locale locale = new Locale(lang);
Locale.setDefault(locale);
loadUI();
}
private void loadUI() {
try {
Resources resources = new Resources(getClass().getName(),
Locale.getDefault());
BXMLSerializer bxmlSerializer = new BXMLSerializer();
TabPane l_TabPane = (TabPane) bxmlSerializer.readObject(
Main.class.getResource("ContainerView.bxml"),
resources);
myWindow.setContent(l_TabPane);
} catch (Exception _Ex) {
_Ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
@Override
public void startup(Display _Display, Map<String, String> _Properties)
throws Exception {
loadUI();
myWindow.setMaximized(true);
myWindow.open(_Display);
}
}
It works to update localized strings but even if it is easy to reload all
data displayed in the UI by using data binding after reloading the bxml
file, I will loose the state of the UI (split ratio of splitters, selected
tab in a tab pane, etc.).
Anyway, thank you for your answer.
Simon
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to implement a dynamic localization in my application, meaning the
> user must be able to click on a button in some kind of toolbar and the UI
> must change directly to display all texts in the chosen language without
> restarting the application.
>
> ...
>
> So I go back to the localization feature and found on the mailing list the
> question of Joao Neves, and the answer of Greg Brown saying
> >If you define your UI in BXML, you can just reload it after you change the
> locale.
> That seems interesting but I do not understand how to “reload the UI”; if
> someone could post a little code snippet showing how to do that, that would
> be great.
>
>
> I don't think there is an example that demonstrates how to do this, but the
> idea is pretty simple. Let's say you have a main Window defined in
> my_window.bxml. Your application loads this window in startup() and stores a
> reference to it. When you want to apply a locale change, you can reload
> my_window.bxml using the Resources loaded from the new locale.
>
> You might be able to do this by calling shutdown() and startup() on the
> application yourself. I haven't tried it but it might be worth a shot.
>
> G
>
>
>
