Re: [platform-ui-dev] Internationalize global actions?

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mathieu,

In this specific case, the text for the resulting action is obtained from 
the Workbench's message catalog.
The code for ActionFactory.UNDO does: WorkbenchMessages.getString(
"Workbench.undo"), which looks up the string in the messages.properties 
file in package org.eclipse.ui.internal in the Workbench plugin 
(org.eclipse.ui.workbench).

As Tod describes, string translations are shipped as separate fragments 
corresponding to the plugins containing the externalized string.   This 
string in particular would be found in the NL fragments for the Workbench, 
not your plug-in.  NL fragments for Eclipse 2.1.2 at the bottom of the 
downloads page.  The 3.0 translations will not be done until we approach 
the end of 3.0.

If you want, you can provide your own text for the retargetable actions, 
and therefore your own translations using:

IAction undoAction = ActionFactory.UNDO.create(window);
undoAction.setText(Messages.getString("Undo"));
menu.add(undoAction);

For more on internalization, see the following articles available off of 
the Articles page:

"How to Internationalize your Eclipse Plug-In":
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-Internationalization/how2I18n.html

"How to Test Your Internationalized Eclipse Plug-In"
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-TVT/how2TestI18n.html

Regards,
Nick




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Mathieu

This is a forum for news on the development of the Eclipse UI rather than 
a support group - you post these ypes of questions to the Eclipse 
newsgroup.

The way you do this is by creating fragments for each plug-in you have 
translated for with the extension.nl and then create message files for 
each language in the jar for the frgament. See the Eclipse downloads for 
an example.

Tod





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Hi all, 


I developped some plugin with edition global actions, CUT, COPY, etc.

I create them in a WorkbenchAdvisor, this way :

MenuManager menu = new MenuManager(Messages.getString("Edit"), 
//$NON-NLS-1$
            IWorkbenchActionConstants.M_EDIT);
menu.add(new GroupMarker(IWorkbenchActionConstants.EDIT_START));
menu.add(ActionFactory.UNDO.create(window));


The fact is I would like to have all these actions internationalized, so 
if anybody could help me on how to do it... is there a way to make it from 

my plugin.xml via <extension> ? Or via a property file?

Thanks for help!


Mathieu Fougeray.
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