Building Multilanguage (i18n) Flex Applications
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Discover a better, amazing way to build multi-language i18n features into your Flex applications. Instead of using the traditional approaches using the UIComponent.resourceManager, use Inversion of Control (IoC) and inject your localized resources at runtime. Learn more about the l10n Injection framework.
![First some acronyms...
i18n[Internationalization]
entire business processes focused on software product support for other languages
documentation
translation,
quality assurance,
support,
etc.
l10n [Localization]
Adaptation of software to 1 or more speci鍖c locales and culture contexts.
Text translation
Text Expansion and Flow
Changes to images, colors, and sounds
Changes to dynamic content and URLs
Changes to fonts and styles
etc.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/3466848/85/Building-Multilanguage-i18n-Flex-Applications-2-320.jpg)
Building Multilanguage (i18n) Flex Applications
- 1. Building Multi-language (i18n) Flex Applications Thomas Burleson Senior Architect / Consultant March 6, 2010
- 2. First some acronyms... i18n[Internationalization] entire business processes focused on software product support for other languages documentation translation, quality assurance, support, etc. l10n [Localization] Adaptation of software to 1 or more speci鍖c locales and culture contexts. Text translation Text Expansion and Flow Changes to images, colors, and sounds Changes to dynamic content and URLs Changes to fonts and styles etc.
- 3. English | Spanish | French | Japanese | Chinese
- 4. Multi-language? Want to release your product in different languages? Could make separate build/codebase for each language Could build support for multi-language into your product. Could load the localized content from a... text 鍖le compiled resource bundle (for text, images, data, etc) remote database remote web service
- 5. Live Sample Registration Demo English & Spanish Support Startup Locale Detection
- 6. Registration Demo before l10n Review App hierarchy Review View source code Review View design mode
- 7. Registration Demo with Traditional l10n Create Properties 鍖les Compile Properties to Bundles Embed or Load Bundles Using the ResourceManager Review Impacts on Source Review Impacts on Design Consider Impacts on App
- 8. Registration Demo with Traditional l10n Create Properties 鍖les Compile Properties to Bundles Embed or Load Bundles Using the ResourceManager ... change all your views! Review Impacts on Source Review Impacts on Design Consider Impacts on App
- 9. Registration Demo with Traditional l10n Create Properties 鍖les Compile Properties to Bundles Embed or Load Bundles Using the ResourceManager Review Impacts on Source Review Impacts on Design Consider Impacts on App
- 10. Consider impacts... ... mangled design views!
- 12. Using ResourceManager 01/21/10 ThomasBurleson@gmail.com
- 13. Using ResourceManager 01/21/10 ThomasBurleson@gmail.com
- 14. Consider IOC... Use Inversion of Control (IOC) control instances "connect" From PULL to ResourceManager to access (pull) localized content. localized content is To PUSH magically "injected" into control instances. With IOC, we can Centralize all injections of localized content Centralize all mappings from properties
- 15. IOC with l10n Injection 01/21/10 ThomasBurleson@gmail.com
- 16. Injection with LocalizationMaps 01/21/10 ThomasBurleson@gmail.com
- 17. l10n Injection Understanding concepts of LocalizationMap Resource Injectors Resource Proxies Smart ResourceInjectors Create your custom LocalizationMap 1. Inject text to registered instances 2. Inject parameterized Values 3. Inject to ALL instances 4. Inject localized bitmaps 5. Inject skins
- 18. Registration Demo with l10n Injection Create Properties 鍖les Compile Properties to Bundles Embed or Load Bundles Using the ResourceManager Create LocalizationMap registry Review Impacts on View Source Review Impacts on Design Consider Impacts on App
- 19. Registration Demo with l10n Injection Create Properties 鍖les Compile Properties to Bundles Embed or Load Bundles Using the ResourceManager Create LocalizationMap registry Review Impacts on View Source Review Impacts on Design Consider Impacts on App
- 20. Registration Demo with l10n Injection Create Properties 鍖les Compile Properties to Bundles Embed or Load Bundles Using the ResourceManager Review Impacts on View Source Review Impacts on Design Consider Impacts on App
- 21. LocalizationMaps Learned how to us LocalizationMaps in your App When does the injection occur? 1. When ResourceManager announces locale changes. 2. When instances are created (if...) 3. When parameterized values change (if...) 4. When view states change (if...)
- 22. LocalizationMaps Extra considerations 1. Dynamically loading Bundles 2. Font Dependencies and Unicode 3. Compiling with Unicode 4. Dynamically loading Fonts Issues still remaining... 1. Text Expansion 2. Text Translation & Online Tools 3. Databases vs Bundles
- 23. Use ColdFusion as remote localization server: 1. RESTful Service for dynamic xml as virtual bundles 2. Performed at the business services layer 3. Completely transparent to LocalizationMaps and your app. 4. Can load dynamically compiled fonts Use ColdFusion for Translation services: 1. Save/load translations of properties 鍖les (key/value pairs). 2. Duplicate for other locales 3. Upload content for localized bitmaps and other assets
- 24. Thomas Burleson Senior Architect / Consultant 1. Source code: http://github.com/ThomasBurleson/l10n_Injection 2. Sample apps: http://github.com/ThomasBurleson/l10nInjection_Samples 3. Personal blog: http://www.gridlinked.info/ 4. Intro to i18n: http://www.tinyurl.com/ykru3yp ThomasBurleson@gmail.com