Method, system and computer program product for dynamic language switching in user interface menus, help text, and dialogs
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May 28, 2002
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Dec 15, 1998
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Dec 15, 1998
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To facilitate dynamic language switching in a data processing system, software is implemented with user interface text--menu and button labels, dialog messages, help text, etc.--and other language-specific components segregated from underlying functionality. Thus, for example, label and other text-based parameters for Java AWT methods are taken from storage objects separate from the constructor invoking the corresponding Java AWT method. Since Java is dynamically linked at runtime, one or more language-specific files containing all user interface text for an application may be dynamically selected during initialization of the application. The language-specific file selection may be based on the current setting of a language property for the host data processing system. If a language change request is received, the user interface may be reloaded with text supplied from a different language-specific file pursuant to the language change request.
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