{ This form can be the ancestor of other forms. It is suitable for changing languages at run-time. It provides the virtual method "UpdateTranslation" which must be overridden by each inherited form in order to update the translation of strings that are not automatically translated by DefaultTranslator (e.g. strings built up by means of Format statements). The unit contains also a procedure UpdateFormatSettings which adapts the format settings to the newly selected language, as well as UpdateBiDiMode which enable right-to-left mode as it is used in the Middle East (not perfect, though...) } unit LocalizedForms; {$mode objfpc}{$H+} interface uses {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS} Windows, {$ENDIF} Classes, SysUtils, Forms; type TLocalizedForm = class(TForm) protected procedure UpdateTranslation(ALang: String); virtual; public (* Activate for Lazarus version older than 1.2 procedure FlipChildren(AllLevels: Boolean); override; *) end; var LocalizedForm: TLocalizedForm; CurrentLang: String = ''; CodePage: String = ''; procedure UpdateBiDiMode(ALang: String); procedure UpdateFormatSettings(ALang: String); // Windows only! // Utility functions for Windows only {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS} function GetFullLangCodeFromLCID(LCID: Integer): String; function GetLangCodeFromLCID(LCID: Integer): String; function GetLCIDFromLangCode(ALang: String): Integer; {$ENDIF} implementation {$R *.lfm} { Local procedures } {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS} function GetLocaleStr(LCID, LT: Longint; const Def: string): ShortString; // borrowed from SysUtils var L: Integer; Buf: array[0..255] of Char; begin L := GetLocaleInfo(LCID, LT, Buf, SizeOf(Buf)); if L > 0 then SetString(Result, @Buf[0], L - 1) else Result := Def; end; {$ENDIF} { Utility procedures - Windows-only } {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS} { This is how to convert LCID to language code like 'de', 'en', etc. Works only for Windows. See also: GetFullLangCode} function GetLangCodeFromLCID(LCID: Integer): String; var language: PAnsiChar; begin language := StrAlloc(255); try GetLocaleInfoA(LCID, LOCALE_SISO639LANGNAME, PAnsiChar(language), 255); Result := language; finally StrDispose(language); end; Result := ''; end; { This is how to convert LCID to language code like 'de_DE', 'en_US', etc. The first two characters are the country, the last two are the region. Works only for Windows. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1192361/how-to-convert-microsoft-locale-id-lcid-into-language-code-or-locale-object-in/1192856#1192856 or http://delphi.cjcsoft.net/viewthread.php?tid=45881 or http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318101%28VS.85%29.aspx } function GetFullLangCodeFromLCID(LCID: Integer): String; var language, country: PAnsiChar; begin language := StrAlloc(255); country := StrAlloc(255); try GetLocaleInfoA(LCID, LOCALE_SISO639LANGNAME, PAnsiChar(language), 255); GetLocaleInfoA(LCID, LOCALE_SISO3166CTRYNAME, PAnsiChar(country), 255); Result := language + '_' + country; finally StrDispose(country); StrDispose(language); end; end; { This function determines the LCID from the language code. Works only for Windows. } function GetLCIDFromLangCode(ALang: String): Integer; begin case lowercase(ALang) of 'ar' : Result := $0401; // Arabic 'bg' : Result := $0403; // Bulgarian 'ca' : Result := $0403; // Catalan 'cs' : Result := $0405; // Czech 'de' : Result := $0407; // German 'en' : Result := $0409; // English (US) 'es' : Result := $040A; // Spanisch 'fi' : Result := $040B; // Finnish 'fr' : Result := $040C; // French 'he' : Result := $040D; // Hebrew 'hu' : Result := $040E; // Hungarian 'it' : Result := $0410; // Italian 'jp' : Result := $0411; // Japanese 'pl' : Result := $0415; // Polish 'pt' : Result := $0816; // Portuguese (Portugal) 'pt_br': Result := $0416; // Portuguese (Brazil) 'ru' : Result := $0419; // Russian 'tr' : Result := $041F; // Turkish 'uk' : Result := $0422; // Ukrainian 'lt' : Result := $0427; // Lithuanian 'zh_cn', 'zh-cn': Result := $0804; // Chinese (China) 'zh_tw', 'zh-tw': Result := $0404; // Chinese (Taiwan) // please complete if necessary. Language code and LCIDs can be found at // http://www.science.co.il/Language/Locale-codes.asp else raise Exception.CreateFmt('Language "%s" not supported. Please add to GetLCIDFromLangCode.',[ALang]); end; end; {$ENDIF} { SetDefaultSettings changes the FormatSettings according to the selected language. Unfortunately there is not platform-independent way to do this at the moment. Here is the solution for Windows. } procedure UpdateFormatSettings(ALang: String); {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS} var LCID: Integer; {$ENDIF} begin {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS} // Determine the LCID for the requested language LCID := GetLCIDFromLangCode(ALang); // Now we update the format settings to the new language {$PUSH} {$WARNINGS OFF} GetLocaleFormatSettings(LCID, DefaultFormatSettings); {$POP} // We also store the code page that belongs to the new language. We'll need // that when converting FCL strings to UTF8. CodePage := 'cp'+GetLocaleStr(LCID, LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE, ''); {$ENDIF} end; procedure UpdateBiDiMode(ALang: String); begin if Application.IsRTLLang(ALang) then Application.BidiMode := bdRightToLeft else Application.BiDiMode := bdLeftToRight; end; { TLocalizedForm } { This is a workaround for older version of Lazarus where FlipChildren does not work correctly with TRadioGroup and TCheckGroup. Activate this code for versions older than Lazarus 1.2 } (* procedure TLocalizedForm.FlipChildren(AllLevels: Boolean); procedure _DoFlipChildren(AControl: TWinControl); var C: TControl; i: Integer; begin if (not (AControl is TCustomRadioGroup)) and (not (AControl is TCustomCheckGroup)) then begin for i:=0 to AControl.ControlCount-1 do begin C := AControl.Controls[i]; if (C is TWinControl) and (TWinControl(C).ControlCount > 0) then _DoFlipChildren(TWinControl(C)); end; end; end; begin if AllLevels then _DoFlipChildren(Self); inherited FlipChildren(false); end; *) { Each inherited form will have to put code in procedure UpdateTranslation(ALang: String) to translate strings not automatically handled by DefaultTranslator. Don't forget to call "inherited". } procedure TLocalizedForm.UpdateTranslation(ALang: String); var i: Integer; F: TLocalizedForm; begin if Application.MainForm = self then for i:=0 to Screen.FormCount-1 do if Screen.Forms[i] is TLocalizedForm then begin F := TLocalizedForm(Screen.Forms[i]); if F <> self then F.UpdateTranslation(ALang); end; if Application.IsRTLLang(ALang) <> Application.IsRTLLang(CurrentLang) then FlipChildren(true); end; end.