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Maciej Arciuch

Internationalization issues

Dear all,

does anyone know how do I:

- customize the "Loading..." label (the one in the top-right corner)
- localize the YUI calendar.

As regards the YUI calendar, I've tried copying out the xforms.js from the orbeon-resources-public.jar out to resources/ops/javascript (as far as I remember, the same as in the JAR) directory, adding the appropiate entries ("pl": ...), but it didn't work out. I'm using cached, combined, minimal resources, and when I deleted the xforms-yuicalendar-min.js it was recreated but still without my changes. Perhaps I should run the minimizer tool (where do I get it from?) and put the minimized extended version in resources/ops/javascript as well?

Another thing is how does Orbeon decide about the language to use - is the choice based on the browser preferences (accepted languages order), host OS settings ($LANG) or document (xml:lang)?

Yet another small issue is customization of the JS error dialog, namely I've put the following content to the resources/config directory:

------------------------------------------------------------

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
class="xforms-error-panel xforms-initially-hidden">
<div class="hd">This text DOES NOT appear</div>
<div class="bd">
<p>
This thing appears, and everything else below as well.
</p>
<div class="xforms-error-panel-details-hidden"> [...] </div>
</div>
</div>
------------------------------------------------------------

and the contents on the dialog appear just fine, but the top bold label does not change - I still see "An error has occured", although the text in div class="hd" has been altered.

Thanks in advance, best regards, Maciej

Baschir Jaghoori

Re: Internationalization issues

Hi,

This is how I patched the YUI calendar:

Extract xforms.js from orbeon-resources-public.jar to
<Orbeon-App>/WEB-INF/resources/ops/javascript. Add the "pl" l10n to the
variable RESOURCES. Configure Orbeon to not use minimized resources (see
Orbeon Configuration). Set <html lang="pl"> in your XForms.

I didn't try to minimize it... I guess you need to run the build.xml
from the source...

Baschir

Maciej Arciuch schrieb:

> Dear all,
>
> does anyone know how do I:
>
> - customize the "Loading..." label (the one in the top-right corner)
> - localize the YUI calendar.
>
> As regards the YUI calendar, I've tried copying out the xforms.js from the
> orbeon-resources-public.jar out to resources/ops/javascript (as far as I
> remember, the same as in the JAR) directory, adding the appropiate entries
> ("pl": ...), but it didn't work out. I'm using cached, combined, minimal
> resources, and when I deleted the xforms-yuicalendar-min.js it was recreated
> but still without my changes. Perhaps I should run the minimizer tool (where
> do I get it from?) and put the minimized extended version in
> resources/ops/javascript as well?
>
> Another thing is how does Orbeon decide about the language to use - is the
> choice based on the browser preferences (accepted languages order), host OS
> settings ($LANG) or document (xml:lang)?
>
> Yet another small issue is customization of the JS error dialog, namely I've
> put the following content to the resources/config directory:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
> class="xforms-error-panel xforms-initially-hidden">
> <div class="hd">This text DOES NOT appear</div>
> <div class="bd">
> <p>
> This thing appears, and everything else below as well.
> </p>
> <div class="xforms-error-panel-details-hidden"> [...] </div>
> </div>
> </div>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and the contents on the dialog appear just fine, but the top bold label does
> not change - I still see "An error has occured", although the text in div
> class="hd" has been altered.
>
> Thanks in advance, best regards, Maciej
>

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Internationalization issues

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Maciej,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Maciej Arciuch
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> - customize the "Loading..." label (the one in the top-right corner)

You can change the style, say if you want the background to be yellow
instead of red, by overriding the CSS class xforms-loading-loading.
The text ("Loading...") is hardcoded in the Java code right now, and
if you need to override it, you can do so in your theme XSL.

> - localize the YUI calendar.

See Baschir's response on this, and let us if anything isn't clear.

And, yes, this is not ideal. In a better world, you'd have one place
where you can localize all the platform-specific resources. We have
been thinking of ways to do that, but didn't get to implement it yet.

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Maciej Arciuch

Re: Internationalization issues

Alessandro Vernet-2 wrote

You can change the style, say if you want the background to be yellow
instead of red, by overriding the CSS class xforms-loading-loading.
The text ("Loading...") is hardcoded in the Java code right now, and
if you need to override it, you can do so in your theme XSL.

Thanks for your answer. I've tried it and it doesn't work - the "Loading..." label is changed, but in a span that is not actually shown and it seems that client-side JS code replaces the span with a new span with the old default label and different attributes the first time the red box is shown. Where does it take that label from?

My code in theme-plain.xsl is:

<xsl:template match="xhtml:span[contains(@class,'xforms-loading-loading')]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:text>my text here</xsl:text>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

When I load the page, Firebug shows only the modified span, but later a new one appears, with the old label.

Anyways, what about the error-dialog issue? How can I change its header? Orbeon seems doesn't respect the new header from a custom error-dialog.xml.

And how do make changes to e.g. xforms.js in resources JAR if I have minimized resources turned on?

I hope I don't abuse you patience, thanks in advance, Maciej

Alessandro Vernet

Re: Re: Internationalization issues

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Maciej,

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Maciej Arciuch
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. I've tried it and it doesn't work - the "Loading..."
> label is changed, but in a span that is not actually shown and it seems that
> client-side JS code replaces the span with a new span with the old default
> label and different attributes the first time the red box is shown. Where
> does it take that label from?

Ah, good point, this doesn't work because a hard-coded value in
xforms.js is used. You'll find this towards the top of the file:

var DEFAULT_LOADING_TEXT = "Loading...";

I have been considering to keep the value in the span instead of using
DEFAULT_LOADING_TEXT, but this is not just done in 1 line of code,
since the content of the span can be replaced by a value you provide
with xxforms:progress-message="..."
(http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/reference-xforms-guide#dispatch-delay).
Also, ultimately this is something we want to change so the message
can be localized and can change as the html/@lang changes. So for now
I recommend you change xforms.js, instead of the theme. Sorry to have
mislead you!

Again, this is not ideal, but I believe you had to change that file
anyway for the calendar i18n, so at least you'll just have one file to
change.

> And how do make changes to e.g. xforms.js in resources JAR if I have
> minimized resources turned on?

Make your changes in xforms.js. Place your xforms.js in your
WEB-INF/resources/ops/javascript. Compress it using the YUI Compressor
(http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/). You can download it and
run it from the command line, or you can use one of the online
versions that people put up (do a search for "yui compressor online").
Name the compressed file xforms-min.js, and put it in the same
directory as xforms.js. Or if you have the Orbeon Forms source code
checked out, you can run "ant orbeon-minify-js".

Alex
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