How to translate JDK Swing UI into your Language
The default Swing UIs, for example, "Cancel" button of Swing
filechooser and Swing colorchooser are coming from JDK, not from
NetBeans. JDK includes these UI messages inside JDK by default for
several languages .e.g. Japanese, Chinese, and etc. But it may not
include your languages. Here is the guide how to localize them into
your language.
Step
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Get
English
Sources |
l10nkit is available
in File area of translatedfiles.netbeans.org, please pick up.
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Translate
Them |
Please
refer these documents. It depends on what you use for translations.
The UI messages are including Java files.
translatedfiles/src/swing/src/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/gtk/resources/gtk_<lang>.java
translatedfiles/src/swing/src/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/motif/resources/motif_<lang>.java
translatedfiles/src/swing/src/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/windows/resources/windows_<lang>.java
translatedfiles/src/swing/src/com/sun/swing/internal/plaf/basic/resources/basic_<lang>.properties
translatedfiles/src/swing/src/com/sun/swing/internal/plaf/metal/resources/metal_<lang>.properties
translatedfiles/src/swing/src/com/sun/swing/internal/plaf/synth/resources/synth_<lang>.properties
Important:
Please be careful when you translate .java file. 3 files are .java
files, so when you localize the files, you need to change class name
too. For example, when you translate motif.java to Italian, you need to
change the class name "motif" to "motif_it".
public final class motif_it extends ListResourceBundle {
Also encoding should be unicode ascii, which means you need to run
native2ascii for all java files.
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Verify
Translated files |
If you can build NetBeans IDE,
try to check the following documents and verify your translated files
are OK on NetBeans.
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Commit
your files to cvs
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Copy you translated files into
src/ directory and commit them. Please use appropriate branch for
check-in. For NetBeans 5.5, we should use "release55" branch.
- notification can be sent to
cvs@translatedfiles.netbeans.org, check mail
archive
- You can verify your committed files on web
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Try
daily
build |
Daily
builds can be downloaded from
Select "5.5" and "Daily", then click "Continue". Currently only
Japanese, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese are available. |
Please send you questions to dev@translatedfiles.netbeans.org.
