[Mono-winforms-list] Important ResourceManager notes

[Peter Dennis Bartok]

Can you then explain why I get localized resources out of the main assembly 
when runnin on MS? Run the winforms/messagebox testcase, with the Mono SWF 
dll and the MS runtime.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: "Kornél Pál" <kornelpal at hotmail.com>
To: "Peter Dennis Bartok" <peter at novonyx.com>; 
<mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
Date: 10 June, 2005 12:02
Subject: Re: [Mono-winforms-list] Important ResourceManager notes


>> We have a test app in winforms/messagebox, that switches to the german
>> locale, to test reading non-neutral resources. When I run that with our
>> System.Windows.Froms.dll, but with Microsoft's runtime, it does read the
>> non-neutral locale. Doesn't that contradict the statement that MS does 
>> not
>> support it?
>
>..NET Framework does the same I want to implement (in fact I already
>implemented it but I don't want to send a patch until I finish reworking 
>the
>whole ResourceManager to be MS.NET compatible). It reads neutral resources
>only from the main assembly and reads localized resources only from the
>appropriate satellite assembly.
>
>This is a very big difference.
>
>Kornél
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Kornél Pál" <kornelpal at hotmail.com>
>> To: <mono-winforms-list at lists.ximian.com>
>> Date: 10 June, 2005 00:14
>> Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] Important ResourceManager notes
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am about post an extenive ResourceManager patch.
>>>I am still working on the test unit to make discover the correct 
>>>behaviour
>>>of ResourceManager and prevent regressions.
>>>
>>>There were a lot of differences between Mono and .NET Framework
>>>implementation.
>>>
>>>The most important that will break Managed.Windows.Forms is that neutral
>>>resources has to be read from the main assembly any other resources has 
>>>to
>>>be read from the appropriate satellite assembly.
>>>
>>>System.Windows.Forms.dll contains all the cultures of resources in the
>>>main
>>>assembly and only the neutral resources will be available in
>>>ResourceManager
>>>after the patch.
>>>
>>>Note that this change does not effect GetManifestResourceStream but it
>>>should not be used with localizable resources. (Managed.Windows.Forms is
>>>not
>>>using GetManifestResourceStream for localization)
>>>
>>>Kornél
>>>
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