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Re: How are folder localized?

To: REALbasic NUG <realbasic-nug@lists.realsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: How are folder localized?
From: Charles Yeomans <charles@declareSub.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:27:35 -0400
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On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:

> Le 5 juin 08 à 15:45 (soir), Charles Yeomans a écrit:
>
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Arnaud Nicolet wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to make a new folder on disk and make it localized among
>>> languages (like the folders "Music", "Pictures", "Movies", etc. of
>>> the home folder)..
>>> After looking in various of these folders, I discovered a file named
>>> ".localized" in every folder. All files were empty. Google didn't
>>> helped me either.
>>>
>>> Any hint on how I can achieve this?
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Include in your app a list of localized names.  At runtime, you check
>> to see what language the system is using, and create the folder with
>> the appropriate name.
>
> Thanks, but I'm looking for the Mac OS X way (a folder which has a
> fixed name but a variable DisplayName according to the user's  
> language).

Ah.  Then you should consult the Mac OS developer documentation, which  
explains how to do this.

Charles Yeomans

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