How to set locale on the BlackBerry PlayBook?

svzi

Hi all,

my app, MeOrg!, supports multiple languages (english, german and french) and that works perfectly on webOS. On the BlackBerry PlayBook it's always the english locale active. I've already tried to set the locale manually with enyo.g11n.setLocale({ uiLocale: 'de' }); but that did not change anything (I've tried to set it before I create my app via the index.html and I tried it in the create-function of my main class as well).

Any help would be really much appreciated!

Cheers,
Sven

svzi

Is my question that dumb that nobody answers, or does really nobody else had this problem before?

Cheers,
Sven

azakus

Is it only on the Playbook that this fails? Are there any errors?
enyo.g11n.setLocale is done with a synchronous XHR in 1.0, and I wonder if the Playbook OS doesn't support that.

svzi

It also fails on my chrome browser and I can not see any errors at all.

Can the language be changed during runtime, maybe for example by a button click? Or must that be done before the main object is created?

Cheers,
Sven

azakus

I'm pretty sure you can change the language at any time, but I believe you have to rerender the component that you want to see the change in.

svzi

I'm not getting this stupid thing done.

It even did not work on the chrome browser... Can someone please provide me a working code-snipplet? Than I could check what I'm actually missing...

Thanks,
Sven

svzi

Does anyone had already ported a multi-language app to the BlackBerry PlayBook or the Chrome Browser?

Thanks,
Sven

arthur

Check out this post I made a few months back. Made it work perfectly in Chrome and on the PlayBook (just tested it with German on my PlayBook and it worked)

svzi

Hi Arthur,

thanks for your feedback, but I don't know which post you mean?

Cheers,
Sven

arthur

Sorry, could've sworn I'd included the link..

http://forums.enyojs.com/discussion/comment/580/#Comment_580

svzi

Thanks for the link, but I'm not sure that will help?! I tried it without luck. What else did you do?

I want to mention that my issue is that the app itself is not getting translated. $L did not work on Chrome or on the PlayBook for me. I have no troubles with number- or date-formatting.

Did you test strings in another language with your app?

Cheers,
Sven

arthur

Okay, for future reference for anyone who may read this thread later on - we've solved the problem Sven was having.

Apparently the JSON interpreter for WebWorks apps (or perhaps just all BB apps) is super strict so you have to make sure your JSON in your strings files are completely compliant.

You can check by putting your JSON into http://www.jsonlint.com and having it validate it.

svzi

To be even more precise: I had a trailing comma after my last entry in my language files... No problem with any webOS device, but won't work on the PlayBook. Thanks again Arthur, for your great help!

Cheers,
Sven