British english on JavaFX controls

[Michael Berry]

Hello,

I'm trying to get the JavaFX controls (specifically the ColorPicker) to
display British English labels, that is Colour instead of Color, but
don't seem to be getting anywhere - do I need to do anything more than
setting the default Locale?

For instance:

public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
Locale.setDefault(Locale.UK);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new ColorPicker()));
primaryStage.show();
}

...gives me the ColorPicker with the US spelling of color. (Setting the
locale to other languages seems to work fine.)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Michael

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Tom Schindl]

Looking at the com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/resources/controls
package there's not extra properties file for en nor one for en_UK.

Wild guess you can fix this is that you put such a properties file in
exactly this package of of your application and it will be picked up.

Tom

On 16.10.14 14:06, Michael Berry wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm trying to get the JavaFX controls (specifically the ColorPicker) to
 display British English labels, that is Colour instead of Color, but
 don't seem to be getting anywhere - do I need to do anything more than
 setting the default Locale?
 
 For instance:
 
 public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
 Locale.setDefault(Locale.UK);
 primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new ColorPicker()));
 primaryStage.show();
 }
 
 ...gives me the ColorPicker with the US spelling of color. (Setting the
 locale to other languages seems to work fine.)
 
 Any ideas?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Michael
 

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Jim Clarke]

Wouldn't you also have to fix the call to setLocale to en_UK?

Sent from my iPhone

 On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at wrote:
 
 Looking at the com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/resources/controls
 package there's not extra properties file for en nor one for en_UK.
 
 Wild guess you can fix this is that you put such a properties file in
 exactly this package of of your application and it will be picked up.
 
 Tom
 
 On 16.10.14 14:06, Michael Berry wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I'm trying to get the JavaFX controls (specifically the ColorPicker) to
 display British English labels, that is Colour instead of Color, but
 don't seem to be getting anywhere - do I need to do anything more than
 setting the default Locale?
 
 For instance:
 
 public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
Locale.setDefault(Locale.UK);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new ColorPicker()));
primaryStage.show();
 }
 
 ...gives me the ColorPicker with the US spelling of color. (Setting the
 locale to other languages seems to work fine.)
 
 Any ideas?
 
 Thanks,
 
 Michael
 

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Michael Berry]

Thanks for the suggested fix - unfortunately though that doesn't seem to
work. The following:

@Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
Locale.setDefault(new Locale(en, UK));

System.out.println(ResourceBundle.getBundle(com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/resources/controls).getString(ColorPicker.customColorLink));
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new ColorPicker()));
primaryStage.show();
}

...prints out Custom colour (British spelling), but the control doesn't
pick this up.

Any idea if I could force a refresh on this somehow to get it to pick up
the british labels?

Thanks,

Michael

On 16 October 2014 13:37, Jim Clarke jimclar...@me.com wrote:

 Wouldn't you also have to fix the call to setLocale to en_UK?

 Sent from my iPhone

  On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at
 wrote:
 
  Looking at the com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/resources/controls
  package there's not extra properties file for en nor one for en_UK.
 
  Wild guess you can fix this is that you put such a properties file in
  exactly this package of of your application and it will be picked up.
 
  Tom
 
  On 16.10.14 14:06, Michael Berry wrote:
  Hello,
 
  I'm trying to get the JavaFX controls (specifically the ColorPicker) to
  display British English labels, that is Colour instead of Color, but
  don't seem to be getting anywhere - do I need to do anything more than
  setting the default Locale?
 
  For instance:
 
  public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
 Locale.setDefault(Locale.UK);
 primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new ColorPicker()));
 primaryStage.show();
  }
 
  ...gives me the ColorPicker with the US spelling of color. (Setting the
  locale to other languages seems to work fine.)
 
  Any ideas?
 
  Thanks,
 
  Michael
 

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Tom Schindl]

Right should be en_GB this is what Locale.UK maps to.

What needs to done is to create a controls_en_GB.properties file and put
the british translations in there.

Tom

On 16.10.14 14:37, Jim Clarke wrote:
 Wouldn't you also have to fix the call to setLocale to en_UK?
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at wrote:

 Looking at the com/sun/javafx/scene/control/skin/resources/controls
 package there's not extra properties file for en nor one for en_UK.

 Wild guess you can fix this is that you put such a properties file in
 exactly this package of of your application and it will be picked up.

 Tom

 On 16.10.14 14:06, Michael Berry wrote:
 Hello,

 I'm trying to get the JavaFX controls (specifically the ColorPicker) to
 display British English labels, that is Colour instead of Color, but
 don't seem to be getting anywhere - do I need to do anything more than
 setting the default Locale?

 For instance:

 public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
Locale.setDefault(Locale.UK);
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(new ColorPicker()));
primaryStage.show();
 }

 ...gives me the ColorPicker with the US spelling of color. (Setting the
 locale to other languages seems to work fine.)

 Any ideas?

 Thanks,

 Michael

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Tom Schindl]

On 16.10.14 16:15, Tom Schindl wrote:
 Ok - it ResourceBundle.getBundle() uses the classloader of the caller
 which means the ExtensionClassloader so having the additional properties
 in your local dir does help.

does NOT help!

Tom

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Michael Berry]

Hi Tom,

Sure, that makes sense, thanks for the info. Don't suppose there's a
workaround you know of?

This is for an application which has a bundled JRE, so I can potentially
just add the language file in the proper location - it'd just be nice to
have a fix that doesn't require modification if possible!

Michael

On 16 October 2014 15:20, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at wrote:

 On 16.10.14 16:15, Tom Schindl wrote:
  Ok - it ResourceBundle.getBundle() uses the classloader of the caller
  which means the ExtensionClassloader so having the additional properties
  in your local dir does help.

 does NOT help!

 Tom

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Michael Berry]

Sure, JIRA is here: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-39004

Afraid I'm not sure about AWT / Swing, I've never tried to add a
translation there!

Michael

On 16 October 2014 15:38, Stephen F Northover steve.x.northo...@oracle.com
wrote:

 Please enter a JIRA for the missing translation.  If AWT/Swing is missing
 a translation, is there a way to add it short of modifying the system?

 Steve


 On 2014-10-16, 10:28 AM, Michael Berry wrote:

 Hi Tom,

 Sure, that makes sense, thanks for the info. Don't suppose there's a
 workaround you know of?

 This is for an application which has a bundled JRE, so I can potentially
 just add the language file in the proper location - it'd just be nice to
 have a fix that doesn't require modification if possible!

 Michael

 On 16 October 2014 15:20, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at
 wrote:

  On 16.10.14 16:15, Tom Schindl wrote:

 Ok - it ResourceBundle.getBundle() uses the classloader of the caller
 which means the ExtensionClassloader so having the additional properties
 in your local dir does help.

  does NOT help!

 Tom

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Phil Race]

On 10/16/2014 7:38 AM, Stephen F Northover wrote:
Please enter a JIRA for the missing translation.  If AWT/Swing is 
missing a translation, is there a way to add it short of modifying the 
system?



I don't think Swing (or any other part of the JDK classes for that matter)
would reach out to an application classloaded resource.
Also the translations are in resource classes buried in the implementation
and you have to get the source of the class to even know what you were
supposed to provide and translate.

FWIW I do not believe there is any British English resource translation in
the JDK classes either .. nor Canadian for that matter :-)

I suspect there was so little different it was not worth it even though
the bar to entry is pretty low here.

You can ask the localization (or is that localisation ? :-) team what they
have to say .. cc'd Michael Fang.

-phil.



Steve

On 2014-10-16, 10:28 AM, Michael Berry wrote:

Hi Tom,

Sure, that makes sense, thanks for the info. Don't suppose there's a
workaround you know of?

This is for an application which has a bundled JRE, so I can potentially
just add the language file in the proper location - it'd just be nice to
have a fix that doesn't require modification if possible!

Michael

On 16 October 2014 15:20, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at 
wrote:



On 16.10.14 16:15, Tom Schindl wrote:

Ok - it ResourceBundle.getBundle() uses the classloader of the caller
which means the ExtensionClassloader so having the additional 
properties

in your local dir does help.

 does NOT help!

Tom

Re: British english on JavaFX controls

[Stephen F Northover]

Thanks Phil.  I have given up on Canadian spelling where computers 
concerned.  Michael Fang is on the JIRA.


Steve

On 2014-10-16, 3:34 PM, Phil Race wrote:

On 10/16/2014 7:38 AM, Stephen F Northover wrote:
Please enter a JIRA for the missing translation.  If AWT/Swing is 
missing a translation, is there a way to add it short of modifying 
the system?



I don't think Swing (or any other part of the JDK classes for that 
matter)

would reach out to an application classloaded resource.
Also the translations are in resource classes buried in the 
implementation

and you have to get the source of the class to even know what you were
supposed to provide and translate.

FWIW I do not believe there is any British English resource 
translation in

the JDK classes either .. nor Canadian for that matter :-)

I suspect there was so little different it was not worth it even though
the bar to entry is pretty low here.

You can ask the localization (or is that localisation ? :-) team what 
they

have to say .. cc'd Michael Fang.

-phil.



Steve

On 2014-10-16, 10:28 AM, Michael Berry wrote:

Hi Tom,

Sure, that makes sense, thanks for the info. Don't suppose there's a
workaround you know of?

This is for an application which has a bundled JRE, so I can 
potentially
just add the language file in the proper location - it'd just be 
nice to

have a fix that doesn't require modification if possible!

Michael

On 16 October 2014 15:20, Tom Schindl tom.schi...@bestsolution.at 
wrote:



On 16.10.14 16:15, Tom Schindl wrote:

Ok - it ResourceBundle.getBundle() uses the classloader of the caller
which means the ExtensionClassloader so having the additional 
properties

in your local dir does help.

 does NOT help!

Tom