Interesting approach to localization
Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft
Hey guys,
Here is what I think is an innovative approach to localization, using a standard binding syntax. As far as I can judge, this solution will fail in Silverlight (as will most other solutions anyway…), but it has the advantage of being dynamic, of using a Binding syntax which is more familiar than a custom markup extension (even though the “dot” and array syntax is probably not very familiar to many newbies), and provides a fallback value for design mode.
What do you guys think?
Laurent
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Corrado Cavalli
Very interesting and far better that locbaml stuff, love to have same syntax on SL too, at the moment closest counterpart is the one’s from Tim Heuer
http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/08/26/silverlight-string-localization.aspx
-Corrado
Eric Burke
From: "Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft" <lau...@galasoft.ch>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:26:52 PM
Subject: [WPF Disciples] Interesting approach to localization
Corrado Cavalli
BTW: In my current Silverlight project I’ve created a LocalizedViewModelBase as base for others Viewmodel that requires localization:
public class LocalizableViewModelBase : ViewModelBase
{
private static Resources resources = new Resources();
private static CultureInfo cachedCulture;
public Resources LocalizedText
{
get
{
return resources;
}
}
protected void SetCulture(string userCulture, bool cacheCurrent)
{
…
if (Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.Name != userCulture)
{
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(userCulture);
this.RaisePropertyChanged("LocalizedText");
}
}
}
and then I bind UI elements this way:
<TextBlock Text="{Binding LocalizedText.UserName, Mode=OneWay}"
TextWrapping="Wrap"
Height="15"
VerticalAlignment="Bottom"
Grid.Column="1" />
What do you think?
-Corrado
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Sent: martedì 8 settembre 2009 23:27
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Subject: [WPF Disciples] Interesting approach to localization
Corrado Cavalli
Yes, I use Visual Studio integrated editor, works pretty well…
-Corrado
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Sent: mercoledì 9 settembre 2009 07:48
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [WPF Disciples] Re: Interesting approach to localization
Hey Corrado,
How do you set the texts in the resources? Do you use the Resx file?
Laurent
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Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:05 AM
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Subject: [WPF Disciples] Re: Interesting approach to localization
BTW: In my current Silverlight project I’ve created a LocalizedViewModelBase as base for others Viewmodel that requires localization:
Sacha Barber
I agree with Corrado, it does work well using RESX file in VS
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Daniel Vaughan
Resources, hmmm this sounds like a candidate for a T4 solution.
You could do the following at the moment with the MetadataGeneration
template I wrote about last week. If you have a public access modifier
on resource properties:
<Window.Resources>
<blah:StringResources x:Key="strings"/>
</Window.Resources>
...
<TextBox Text="{Binding Source={StaticResource strings}, Path=
{x:Static Metadata:StringResourcesMetadata.JustATestPath},
Mode=OneWay}" />
Somewhat verbose, but it has the benefit of being validated at compile
time. Although it lacks support for changing culture at runtime. I
will fix that and improve the syntax etc.
Thanks for the article headsup.
On Sep 8, 11:26 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft" <laur...@galasoft.ch>
wrote:
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> Here is what I think is an innovative approach to localization, using a
> standard binding syntax. As far as I can judge, this solution will fail in
> custom markup extension (even though the "dot" and array syntax is probably
> not very familiar to many newbies), and provides a fallback value for design
> mode.
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> iles-and-standard-data-binding-without-a-markupextension/
> What do you guys think?
>
> Laurent
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Sacha Barber
Thats how my articles starto too, I run out of ideas and then BANG a new idea comes in
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 03:30:29 -0700
> Subject: [WPF Disciples] Re: Interesting approach to localization
Daniel Vaughan
On Sep 9, 12:33 pm, Sacha Barber <sachabar...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ha Ha,
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> Thats how my articles starto too, I run out of ideas and then BANG a new idea comes in
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> > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 03:30:29 -0700
> > Subject: [WPF Disciples] Re: Interesting approach to localization
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