Re: Changing the Locale for a single App?
Re: Changing the Locale for a single App?
- Subject: Re: Changing the Locale for a single App?
- From: Jonathan Wight <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:44:09 -0600
I'm sure its possibly technically to do what you want to do.
But from a user's perspective does it really make sense? IMHO I think
you're wasting time trying to get your prefpane running with a
different language to the rest of System Preferences...
1) You wont be able to change UI owned only by the app - by this I mean
things like menus, about box, help items, etc. Its going to be a bit
odd having a single prefpane in English and all other prefpanes, menus,
etc in Quenya... ;-)
2) The user probably picked the languages he wants to use in his
International preferences. Why bother giving the user another chance to
pick a language (I betcha 99/100 times the user will be using the same
language).
3) Its inconsistent with the rest of Mac OS X. Most Apps I've used are
quite happy relying on the system language.
You really need to consider if this feature really makes sense from a
user's perspective. Of course there might be something special about
your software that makes this feature make perfect sense - but if its
just a case of trying keep feature parity with Windows software then
I'd really try and fight against the inclusion of this feature.
Jon.
On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:46, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:
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I had some problems with this...primarily because I am working with a
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Preference Pane and not a stand alone application. So I guess my
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question should have been "Changing the Local for a single Preference
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Pane". But anyway...
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1) You must have the language files for System Preferences (not just my
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Preference Pane) to switch the language. So if French support of OSX
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is
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not installed, you cannot switch to French.
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2) Making the switch causes the entire System Preferences App to run in
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the selected language. I suppose I should have seen this coming.
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So now my question is...can I select the language to use right when the
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bundle is loaded...and only have my Preference Pane be displayed in a
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different language? I know it sounds stupid, but that's what I have
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been asked to do. Right now I do not have separate Nib files for the
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different languages, only a Localizable.strings file if that makes
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things easier.
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-----Original Message-----
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From: mmalcolm crawford [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:42 PM
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To: Huyler, Christopher M
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Subject: Re: Changing the Locale for a single App?
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On Dec 16, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:
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> I believe this will work...
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