On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:11, Patrick Casey wrote:
> You sometimes do have to change layout on a page by page layout when
> you do i18n stuff, especially if some of the languages you're translating
> into are significantly more verbose than English (<cough> german <cough>).
> So a nice little set of widgets that do, say:
>
> Label1 text1
> Label2 text2
>
> Might not fit if the german translation of label is
>
> InevitableReallyLongGermanAlliterativeLabel text1
> FiendishlyShortForGerman test2
Surely if thats the problem that what you really need is to control layout via
css and have a different style sheet for each language.
What I have done is create a border component (which incidentally is hidden
inside a library jar file which is then available for all applications at my
site) which takes two separate style sheet parameters. One, the page style
comes from an injected asset, but the site style is read from a standard key
("cssURL") from the application.properties file.
By using the locale different version of this you can change the CSS dependent
on the language.
The border component need to break into the shell so it can write into the
header.
I do this with a delegate
<html jwcid="@Shell" stylesheet="ognl:pageStyle" title="ognl:siteTitle"
delegate="ognl:siteCSS">
and then in the java
/* Renders the following (for the shell to add it to the header)
* <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style/site.css"/>
*/
private class siteCSS implements IRender {
public void render(IMarkupWriter writer, IRequestCycle cycle) {
writer.beginEmpty("link");
writer.attribute("rel","stylesheet");
writer.attribute("type","text/css");
writer.attribute("href",appMessage("cssURL"));
writer.println();
}
}
public IRender getSiteCSS(){
return new siteCSS();
}
/*
* Gets messages from the applications property file
* via key
*/
private String appMessage(String key) {
return getPage().getMessages().getMessage(key);
}
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