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| <p class="style1">Externalizing Strings</p> |
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| <p>PDE provides an <strong>Externalize Strings</strong> wizard to help |
| externalize strings in your Manifest and plugin.xml files. |
| Externalizing manifest files extracts translatable strings and stores |
| them in a properties file for multi-language support. |
| The wizard is available under the <strong>PDE Tools</strong> menu in |
| the context menu of a PDE project's MANIFEST.MF or plugin.xml files. |
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| <p class="style3">File Selections</p> |
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| <p>The <strong>Plug-ins with non-externalized strings</strong> table |
| displays all the plug-in related files in the workspace that contain |
| non-externalized strings. The files are grouped by project, and they |
| display the number of non-externalized strings in brackets. |
| You can select one or more files to externalize at one time. |
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| <p>The text in the <strong>Localization</strong> box will be |
| used to define the properties file in which the externalized |
| string keys should be stored. The file's name is created by |
| adding ".properties" to the localization value. |
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| <p class="style3">String Substitution</p> |
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| <p>After selecting a file in the <strong>Plug-ins with non-externalized strings</strong> |
| table, the non-externalized strings will be displayed in the |
| <strong>Strings to be externalized</strong> table. |
| Since you may not want to externalize all the strings in the |
| file, you may choose which strings you wish to externalize by |
| checking or unchecking strings in the table. Click on the |
| <strong>Substitution Key</strong> column to change the key name. |
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| <p>To see the current string value in the table, select either the |
| <strong>Value</strong> or <strong>Substitution Key</strong> column of a string. |
| The strings location will be highlighted and displayed in the <strong>Source</strong> |
| display. |
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