Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Advanced Development

Using the Localization Manager

The Localization Manager handles text translations and other localization support. OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration has a section on translating the labels on a window, which introduces the User Interface that makes use of the Localization Manager. In addition, the message maintenance utility lets you translate messages such as those you just created into other languages.

The following section introduces you to a few of the API calls you can use to adapt the Localization Manager for more specialized needs. Specifically, our pop-up menu example has one weakness where localization is concerned: the pop-up menu is not a standard Progress Dynamics object, and its labels are hard-coded in the browsercustom.p file, which prevents it from being translated. So in this section you define translations for the pop-up menu item labels and then access them through the Localization Manager API.