Localization

Generate localized device applications by localizing objects in the Device Application Designer.

The Device Application Designer contains various items that you can localize, such as the names of screen controls, screens, and alerts. You can localize the device application by creating locale properties files at the Localization Property tab. You can then load, update, and generate localized device applications.

You can update resource bundles for the Device Application Designer by editing the values in the localization properties file. The resource keys are defined by the corresponding elements in the current Device Application Designer. You can also upload specific locale resource bundles into the Device Application Designer.

Some limitations for the locale properties files apply:

In controls, only the literal-type of label item is localizable. When creating a new locale for a control, a resource bundle file with an entry similar to this example is created for the literal string:
Screen.1.CellTable.1.CellLabel.6.LabelItemLiteral.0=Hello
When you specify a country for the language, the basic language locale must also be available. For example, if you create a locale and specify English as the language and the United States as the country, then a locale for English (the basic language) must also be available.
If you create a locale that specifies language, country, and variant, the locale for the basic language and the locale for the basic language and the country must be available. For example, if you create a locale and specify English as the language, United States as the country, and WIN as the variant, then English (United States) and English locales must also be available.
When you select the language and country from the drop-downs that list the full names, the codes in the property file are generated according to the language and country selected.

All locale properties files are saved in the same directory as the device application.

When localizing the Device Application Designer:

Device application files that have names that begin with numbers or special characters cannot be localized. You will receive an error when you generate the code. Make sure that any device application you want to localize does not have a file name that begins with a number or special character.
If you localize the locale properties file manually with an external editor, you must make sure the file is encoded in ASCII so that the content can be correctly read and converted to Unicode.
When you localize a device application containing controls cannot have duplicate names, otherwise, controls that are named identically do not behave correctly. For example, if one of the radio buttons in the original device application is selected, the other radio button with the same name is also selected.