Recently I was looking into localization of my Flex project, not to support multiple language, but to support different server environment setup.
So I came up with two options:
- Using l10n property file:
- Create a locale directory right under the project.
- Add a sub directory under locale named with the locale you want to add.
- Add the property file under the sub directory (Note this is different than the Java i18n setup which you just create property file in the pattern <Resource Name>_<locale>.properties)
- Repeat 2 and 3 if you have more locales to add.
- Go to Project Properties and then Flex Compiler, in the Additional compiler argument section add "-locale <locale list seperated by comma> -source-path=locale/{locale} -allow-source-path-overlap=true"
- In mxml file add [ResourceBundle("<Resource File Name>")] to metadata.
- Wherever you need a resource, use resourceManager.getString('<Resource File Name>', '<Resource Key>').
- Passing environment variables as FlashVars:
- Add flashvars as parameter in object in jsp file
- In mxml, using FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.parameters.<parameter key> to get the passed in value
Option 2 is obviously easier to setup. We don't need to add additional property files but reference existing resource setup in Java project.
