right-to-left

[Dawn Borg Costanzi]

Hi everyone,

I've created a number of widgets to make an online questionnaire. Can anyone tell me whether there is an easy way to have a mirror-image of the widget, for right-to-left language support?

Thanks,

Dawn

[Mohammad Al-Quraian]

Have you tested that by adding a locale into your .xml module file? You can add the Arabic locale like this:

<extend-property name="locale" values="ar" />

Then when you change the locale you would find that GWT does rearrange the widgets as a mirror-image, so if you have a horizontal panel with a label on the left then a text box on the right, after switching to a RTL locale the label would be on the right and the text box on the left, all done magically for you by GWT.

[Dawn Borg Costanzi]

Yes, I have tried this. I added the line: <extend-property name="locale" values="ar"/> in my .xml module file. However when I added '&locale=ar' to my URL (in development mode), I got the same layout, just the text was different.

Am I missing something maybe?

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[Dawn Borg Costanzi]

I should also mention that i am using Layout Panels, not sure if this makes a difference...

[Andrei]

If you set positions in absolute numbers (LayoutPanel), these positions will not change when you switch the locale.

Are you using one of standard GWT themes? They come with a RTL version. If you add your own styles, however, you have to create RTL versions of these styles yourself.

[Dawn Borg Costanzi]

Yes, I'm using a GWT standard theme, but I was hoping that the layout would reverse automatically depending on the locale (since I have an application which must be available in 6 different locales, mixed RTL and LTR). I was not aware that the absolute positioning of the Layout Panel would prevent this... if anyone knows of a 'quick fix' for this it would be very helpful! Thanks :)

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Andrei <vol...@spiraluniverse.com> wrote:

If you set positions in absolute numbers (LayoutPanel), these positions will not change when you switch the locale.

Are you using one of standard GWT themes? They come with a RTL version. If you add your own styles, however, you have to create RTL versions of these styles yourself.

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