[MonoTouch] Multi-lingual

[Danny Pronk]

Hi Nic,

Thanks for your answer, and you are totally correct that this is the
preferred way to go
If at design time you already have your languages available to you.
But if you want to update/write them on the fly this will not work, in my
case an external party is
Maintaining languages (and creating new ones) this is why I chose for the
solution as described by me.

XIB is a solution, also your second one is an option if you want to use
LocalizedString then you
Can suffice with just one xib.

Regards

Danny


Op 07-10-11 12:37 schreef Nic Wise <nicw at fastchicken.co.nz>:

>My understanding, and I hope you have an idea of just how wrong this
>could be, is that if you use interface builder, you get it for free.
>
>You can design Foo.en.xib and Foo.de.xib and the OS will load the
>correct one for you, based on the users stated language preference.
>
>This allows you to do nice things like lay out the form differently if
>you need to use a very long word in one lang, and a very short one in
>another.
>
>I think Cocoa has things built in for this, as well as tools to manage
>it, as this Name.locale.xib etc stuff has been in since OSX 10.0. I
>seam to recall a NSLocalizedString, and a quick google supports that:
>
>http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=373834
>
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094233/how-to-use-nslocalizedstring-in
>-ib-iphone-sdk
>
>
>
>Now, if you need the user to be able to pick Dutch, even if the phone
>is set to German, then I think you are going to have to do it
>yourself. But if you just want to match the user's preference (which,
>I think, is the best option), then the built in stuff should work
>well.
>
>I'd look into what Cocoa provides for you, as I think it's a fairly
>well solved problem.
>
>Cheers
>
>N
>
>On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:20, Danny Pronk <dpronk at probe-asp.eu> wrote:
>> Hi Mittchel/Hoi Mittchel(dutch guy here too),
>> I was facing exactly the same problem in a project.
>> After investigation it turned out that you can't create/write new
>>values in
>> those language resource files.
>> So I have chosen the following path :
>>
>> Created a language resource table with sqlite
>> Build a function ReadResourceLanguageField(string UIResourceName) that
>> returns the value for a specific field
>> Inside this function I use NSLocale.PreferredLanguages[0] to determin
>>the
>> current language and if it doesn't exist i revert back to a default
>>language
>> Everywhere where I set/use values on screen I use the function
>> ReadResourceLanguageField("control.propertyname") so if you need to set
>>the
>> local version of a label called lblHeader you would use "lblHeader.Text"
>> this way it is very clear where you set/fetch what value.
>> Last but not least i have build a checksum calculation on a given
>>language
>> on changing language i check the checksum with a webservice which
>>returns OK
>> (no changes) or replies with a new set of data for that specific
>>language
>> which i then replace inside the database, or if it is a new language it
>>will
>> create the records in the database. If the language is not available it
>>will
>> return unkown and then i revert back to my default language
>>
>> Hopefully this helps you
>> Regards,
>> Danny Pronk
>>
>>
>> Van: Mittchel Van Vliet <mittchel at gmail.com>
>> Datum: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 11:54:53 +0200
>> Aan: <monotouch at lists.ximian.com>
>> Onderwerp: [MonoTouch] Multi-lingual
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>> For an application that I'm going to develop I have to keep two
>>different
>> languages in mind. These two might turn into more further in the future.
>> I've created an settings view where it's possible to select the Language
>> which gets saved in the local database.
>> But how do I arrange that if someone selects Dutch and saves it that
>> everything (UI/Text) turns into that language?
>> Regards,
>> Mittchel
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