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20081212 Friday December 12, 2008

JavaFX Localization

JavaFX localization is easy and simple. If you know Java, it's very similar, but even better :) Here I am going to walk you through some basic steps required to localize a very simple JavaFX application.

1. Create an application.

Here is my simple JavaFX GUI application in English. Note that the messages are externalized. 

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import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.*;
import javafx.scene.text.Font;

import javafx.ext.swing.*;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;

var v1 = ##"My Label";
var v2 = ##"Your Label";
var v3 = ##"Our Label";
var v4 = ##"Hello Button";
var v5 = ##"Goodbye Button";

Stage {
    title: "JavaFX Localization Test"
    width: 300
    height: 300
    visible: true
    scene:
        Scene {
            content:
            VBox {
                spacing:5
                content: [
                    SwingLabel {height: 30 width: 250 text: v1},
                    SwingLabel {height: 30 width: 250 text: v2},
                    SwingLabel {height: 30 width: 250 text: v3},
                    SwingButton {height: 30 width: 250 text: v4},
                    SwingButton {height: 30 width: 250 text: v5}
                ]
            }
        }
}
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2. Compile and execute it. 

# javafxc test.fx
# javafx test

OK, everything looks good so far.

3. Create an fxproperty file.

Let's localize the strings. Here you can see my test_ja.fxproperties. Note that I can embed Japanese characters directly in the file - no more encrypted escape sequences! 

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"My Label" = "私のラベル"
"Your Label" = "あなたのラベル"
"Our Label" = "私たちのラベル"
"Hello Button" = "こんにちはボタン"
"Goodbye Button" = "さようならボタン"
===================================================

4. Execute it.

Wow, the application is already localized! However, the fonts are kind of ugly here...

I will cover how I can fix this problem in my next blog. Stay tuned :)

Posted by naoko ( Dec 12 2008, 05:30:45 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [6]


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