Comments on: Changing MXML string labels via XML

By: Manish

Manish — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:31:59 +0000

Nice work Anuj
But better is to use HttpService read xml and using

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:00:04 +0000

@Joao, Glad you liked it. Thanks.

By: Joao Paulo

Joao Paulo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:58:27 +0000

That is what I was looking for. I really appreciated your piece of code.
Thank you.

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:05:18 +0000

Ben, there is a manual assigning as well. you could do something like
PropertyHandler.getControlLang(this.className).miscText;

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 11 May 2008 02:33:00 +0000

Nice code Anuj! Works perfectly – however it doesn’t seem to effect any of the objects that aren’t initially visible – eg those in an accordion roll. Being a relative newbie to this – is there a quick fix to address all objects visible or not?
Thanks
Ben

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:55:51 +0000

@Ernesto, that would work as would the ResourceBundle but the idea is to not write any code inside the button or label to explicitly tell it to read its string property from somewhere . Infact, my PropertyHandler just reads the IDs, matches them with properties from XML and applies them, neatly , in the background.

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:41:04 +0000

Thanks , P Buchanan.

By: P Buchanan

P Buchanan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:38:08 +0000

Thinking out of the box – I like that Anuj. Good job.

By: Ernesto

Ernesto — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:26:23 +0000

Now,
how about creating one class with a bindable property, for example:

function Translate(s:String):String

And in every label put {TranClass.Translate(xxx)}
where xxx is the key of the hash defined in XML?

By: Anuj Gakhar

Anuj Gakhar — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:41:29 +0000

@David,

You are right . I am not really into Java so never used Resource Bundles before. I think the main advantage of using Resource Bundles would be that it can support more than just strings, like in my example. But I do beleive that if I extend my example to have lets say a french or spanish translated XML file, I could load that up on runtime to accomodate internationliaztion. I guess I was trying to re-invent the wheel but it was worth an exercise and made me learn a lot in the process.