[android-developers] Re: Localizing example somewhere?

2010-11-13 Thread Hal
You may want want to get some ideas from the MVC Struts framework (internationalization/Errors handling). I realize that Struts doesn't run on Android. Perhaps you can use some of their ideas and/or components. The latter is probably more difficult ... Just a thought BTW, Struts uses

Re: [android-developers] Re: Localizing example somewhere?

2010-11-13 Thread Gergely Juhász
I think localized error messages are not supported on Android: http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Throwable.html#getLocalizedMessage%28%29 But your custom formatted error messages could be a good idea. On 12 November 2010 19:21, Rutton rut...@web.de wrote: Thanks for your kind

[android-developers] Re: Localizing example somewhere?

2010-11-13 Thread letlite
You can catch and format whatever exception you are concerned about. Use android.content.res.Resource.getString to format messages: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/Resources.html#getString(int, java.lang.Object...) On Nov 12, 10:21 am, Rutton rut...@web.de wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Localizing example somewhere?

2010-11-13 Thread Rutton
Thanks for all your help. I worked it out my way. Here is the code for a getLocalizedMessage in a custom exception: public String getLocalizedMessage() { Context c = LearningWordsApplication.getContext(); int id = R.string.error_unknown;

[android-developers] Re: Localizing example somewhere?

2010-11-12 Thread Rutton
Thanks for your kind explanation. The describing text is easy to realize, but what I wanted to really know is, how to deal with (custom formatted) exception messages. So, is it good practice to use the Exception e.getLocalizedMessage() and use the Java-mechanism to deal with that, perhaps in