Hi all,

I've got a bit of a problem, some messages (very few) appear in German when using the api's. For example:
JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(ownedFrom, "Are you sure you want to close this case?","Close requester",JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION)

Comes up as a "Ja" and "Nein" option instead of "Yes" and "No".
Is there anyway I can acheive consistency throughout my code? As mentioned before it's only for some messages.

It should be noted that I'm currently in Switzerland where a lot of things are German, but I have all my *known* options set on English.

Thanks in advance for any replies.


-Naveen

: Hi all,
:
: I've got a bit of a problem, some messages (very few) appear in German when using the api's. For example:
: JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(ownedFrom, "Are you sure you want to close this case?","Close requester",JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION)
:
: Comes up as a "Ja" and "Nein" option instead of "Yes" and "No".
: Is there anyway I can acheive consistency throughout my code? As mentioned before it's only for some messages.
:
: It should be noted that I'm currently in Switzerland where a lot of things are German, but I have all my *known* options set on English.
:
: Thanks in advance for any replies.
:
:
: -Naveen
:
:
The captions of the "yes"-"no" buttons, and other messages, are taken from the OS which is running. If that OS is German, then the messages will appear in German. If it is in Dutch it will appear in Dutch, without any changes in your code. The only two ways to ensure (some) consistency is to:
1 Create all dialogs from scratch and don't rely on "default" dialogs
2 Create a multi-lingual version of you application, which checks the language of the OS.
The first option will show everything in the language it is coded in. The language of the other option will depend on the OS settings and the availability of the language data.

: It should be noted that I'm currently in Switzerland where a lot of things are German, but I have all my *known* options set on English.

This is probably due to the Locale the JVM is using. See the java.util.Locale class + set the default to the one you want when the app starts.

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