[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers Internationalization

[Erik Uzureau]

I think the latter idea is excellent. Controls are the only thing
which will ever
have permanent visual text blocks, so this will solve the problem very nicely.

good one!
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On 7/13/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:08:17AM -0500, Erik Uzureau wrote:
> > Do we want to have support for live switching of languages?
> >
> > ie whenever a string is added to the interface (so not for log/warns),
> > it would register the component with the string manager, then when
> > user says OL.StringManager.setLanguage("catalan") it would cycle
> > through and update alll the live components?
>
> I don't think so. I think, since layers won't have text in them, that
> changing the language can then have the user remove and destroy any
> existing controls, and then re-add them after switching the 'current'
> language. That way, you don't have a complete reset of your map, but you
> also don't have the complexity of trying to change existing DOM elements
> either.
>
> Alternatively, controls could have a 'redraw()' function, which would
> actually cause the control to essentially start over from scratch -- in
> this way, a 'setNewLanguage' would just be a language='foo', followed by
> looping over the controls (or anything which displays text) and
> redrawing it.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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