Tag: Localization

Hi all,

I’m looking for people who can translate about 150 terms and some short sentences for my new app QuiQRun! If you can help me, send me a mail to alain.bailleul@pandora.be.

I already have English, Dutch, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

What can I offer?

1. The full version of QuiQRun!
2. A skin in QuiQRun! with your favorite colors
3. Full credit in the apps credits screen
4. Eternal gratitude!

How do I use it in B4A?
The translations are stored in a language file, eg. en-us.lng.

They are stored in a predefined format:

{0000};Scanned
{0001};Scan
{0002};Create
{0003};Setting new skin, one moment...
{0004};Tap to get more info!
{0005};This QRCode is expired!
...


In Basic4Android, It checks if it has a translation, if not it uses the default you put in the GetString function. Here is the snippet I use:

Sub Process_Globals
    Public LangStrings As Map
    Public BOM As Int = 65279 ' Byte Order Mark for Windows UTF-8 files
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    Dim R As Reflector
    R.Target = R.RunStaticMethod("java.util.Locale", "getDefault", Null, Null)
    Dim tmpLang As String = R.RunMethod("getLanguage")
    Select Case tmpLang
        Case "nl"
            LoadLanguageFile("nl-be.LNG")
        Case "fr"
            LoadLanguageFile("fr-fr.LNG")           
        Case "it"
            LoadLanguageFile("it-it.LNG")
        Case "es"
            LoadLanguageFile("es-es.LNG")
        Case "de"
            LoadLanguageFile("de-de.LNG")
        Case Else
            LoadLanguageFile("en-us.LNG")
    End Select

    ' using it:
    ToastMessageShow(GetString("{0003}","Setting new skin, one moment..."), true)
End Sub

Public Sub LoadLanguageFile(setLanguageFile as String)
    LangStrings.Initialize
    
    If File.Exists(File.DirAssets, setLanguageFile) Then
        Dim txtR As TextReader
        txtR.Initialize(File.OpenInput(File.DirAssets, setLanguageFile))
        Dim line As String
        line = txtR.ReadLine
        Do While line  Null
            line = line.Replace(Chr(BOM), "")
            LangStrings.Put(line.SubString2(0,6), line.SubString(7))
            line = txtR.ReadLine
        Loop
        txtR.Close
    End If   
    
End Sub

Public Sub GetString(iCode As String, iDefault As String) As String
    If LangStrings.ContainsKey(iCode) Then
        Return LangStrings.Get(iCode)
    Else
        Return iDefault
    End If
End Sub

Thanks!

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