On Sep 2, 12:47 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > The question of change of locale. It is typical for users to change > their local in the middle of using an application?
I could also return the question, is it typical for users to change the L&F in the middle of using an application? L&F is first and foremost in place, to support the respective native platforms - yet UIManager supports broadcasting change events. > Is it typical for > all applications to immediately take into account the change of locale > without first having to be restarted? Well it's either that, or support native restart upon the change. The JVM doesn't support this either (hello native NetBeans launcher) nor was I able to convince Hans Muller that it was needed for JSR-296/ SwingAppFramework. > If the locale change event is > part of the native Windows platform it would only be viable to support > this in Java if all supported Java platforms had equivalent events. I doubt if any JRE supported OS exists that doesn't have a concept of locale. In any event, it highlights that when you do things in the Java world you have to come to terms with this lowest common denominator which you'll inherently run into as soon as you want to do anything interesting (beyond corporate apps). You wonder if that isn't the reason why Java desktop apps never really took off (i.e. Google implemented Earth/Picasa in it). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
