Craig,
If b.gif is a shared resource for two resource files, is it true, that only a default
resource file (without language extension) needs to have it?
Maya
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Maya Muchnik wrote:
>
> > Craig,
> >
> > Can I ask you on an example to be sure, that it is correct.
> > My images are under images directory from root application dir. So, I can put the
> > following statements:
> > (in a property file :
> > message.key=images
> > a.image=a.gif
> > a.image.dir=images/a.gif
> > )
> >
> > <html:image pageKey="message.key"/>
> > ...
> > <html:image src="a.gif"/>
> > ...
> >
> > Can I put a.gif into the property file too, and have the second statement as
> > this:
> > <html:image src="a.image"/>
> > Or I can have
> > <html:image srcKey="a.image.dir"/>
> >
>
> The assumption behind this new facility is that you need to
> internationalize your images as well as your messages. Perhaps, for
> example, you've created image buttons and the text of those buttons needs
> to be different depending on the user's locale.
>
> Now, let's take Maya's example, and say that our images are stored in an
> "images" directory (relative to the context path of this
> application). Now, in my application resources for English, I might have:
>
> image.a=/images/a_en.gif
> image.b=/images/b.gif
>
> while in my application resources for French, I might have:
>
> image.a=/images.a_fr.gif
> image.b=/images.b.gif
>
> Note that -- with these settings -- I'm using a different GIF file for the
> "a" image, but (currently) sharing the "b" image. Now, I can create a
> single JSP page that grabs the correct version of each image:
>
> <html:image pageKey="image.a"/>
> <html:image pageKey="image.b"/>
>
> (When you use the "pageKey" attribute, your paths have to be context
> relative and start with a slash, just like all the paths in
> struts-config.xml.)
>
> Note one added advantage of this approach. Currently, we're sharing the
> "b" image because it didn't need to be internationalized. Now, you decide
> that you really do want to make it different. All you have to do is:
> * Create the new "/images/b_en.gif" and "/images/b_fr.gif" image files
> * Change the two lines in your application resources
> * Restart your app, with no change to any JSP page that uses
> those images.
>
> Pretty slick, huh? :-)
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Maya
> >
>
> Craig
>
> > "Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> >
> > > There was a recent addition to the <html:image> and <html:img> tags to
> > > support internationalized images elegantly.
> > >
> > > Previously, you had to use the "src" attribute to specify the URI of your
> > > image. If you needed different images for each language, you had to use a
> > > scriptlet expression of some sort to calculate them.
> > >
> > > Now, you can specify a message key (to be looked up in your application
> > > resources) instead:
> > >
> > > <html:image srcKey="message.key"/>
> > >
> > > where "message.key" identifies the path to this image from your
> > > application resources.
> > >
> > > If you want to use context-relative paths everywhere, use:
> > >
> > > <html:image pageKey="message.key"/>
> > >
> > > instead.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Craig
> >
> >
