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The following describes the Eclipse way of replacing strings and how to select them.
Create a new RCP project "MultiLanguage". See Eclipse RCP tutorial for details. Use "RCP application with a view" as template.
Change the View.java to the following.
package multilanguage;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Label;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart;
public class View extends ViewPart {
public static final String ID = "MultiLanguage.view";
public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
Label label = new Label(parent, SWT.BORDER);
label.setText("This is a hardcoded text");
}
/**
* Passing the focus request to the viewer's control.
*/
public void setFocus() {
}
}
Right mouse-click on the source code. Select Source -> Externalize Strings. Select the strings which should be externalized
Press finished. As a result a class Message.java is created which contains static member variables which can be used in the coding as String replacements. The message.properties contain the real strings.
Copy message.properties to message_de.properties or message_en.properties to support different strings for different languages.
Thank you for practicing with this tutorial.
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I believe the following is a very good guideline for asking questions in general and also for the Google group How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
http://www.vogella.de/code/codeeclipse.html Source Code of Examples
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-graphics/SWT_graphics.html SWT Graphics
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecllink// View linking, e.g. how can view 1 react to selection changes in view 2
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Understanding-Layouts/index.html Understanding Layout in SWT, updated version by Wayne Beaton
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-AddingHelpToRCP/index.html Adding help to an Eclipse RCP application
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JFaceSnippets JFace Snippets (Code Examples for certain tasks)
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ SWT Snippets (Code Examples for certain tasks)