Localized accelerators (JMenuItem hotkeys) in Swing
I am working on an English app on a German laptop on a Spanish OS.
Even though I explicitly set Locale.setDefault (Locale.ENGLISH) at the start of my application, I can see hotkexs in the menu as
CTRL + Mayúsculas + C
instead
CTRL + SHIFT + C
which I passed to the KeyStroke object.
Not only is this word not localized in English as I pointed out, but also that it maps the SHIFT key to MAYUS (CAPS LOCK in English), so I think this is not only a language issue, but the keyboard map is good ...
So how can I overlay English for all the GUI components?
Thank!
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You must make sure that you set the locale before any instrumentation code is executed. The following code shows the effect: if you move Locale.setDefault(Locale.GERMAN);
to any other line, it will display the default accelerator names again.
Instead of setting the locale inside your code, you can also add the following argument to the VM:
-Duser.language=DE
public class MenuLocale {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Locale.setDefault(Locale.GERMAN);
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
JFrame f = new JFrame();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();
JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu");
JMenuItem menuitem = new JMenuItem("Menuitem");
menuitem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke('X', KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK | KeyEvent.SHIFT_MASK));
f.setJMenuBar(menubar);
menubar.add(menu);
menu.add(menuitem);
f.pack();
f.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
}
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