Localization in FlashDevelop

I explained how to internationalize a flex application on this early post.
Now I want to show you a simpler way of localization within the IDE which I am applying to my new game: ZummBallz.
It is really simple and consits on declaring "Additional Compiler Options" in "Project -> Properties... -> Compiler Options"

I created the folder locale with to subfolders, en_US and es_AR (you can add any other locales, it is just an example), which contain my resource bundles. Then I added the new options:

• -source-path+= locale/{locale}
• -locale=en_US,es_AR

Mathix - Successions: Internationalization

As I told you before, I sent my game to minijuegos. Pablo (from the Games Sumissions Team) liked the game and told me to translate it and to add some minijuegos.com logos.
So I decided to "internationalize" Mathix. Which means to allow the players to choose between both English and Spanish.
So this is the way I was able to do that:
I added a folder called locale in the root directory of my project.
There I created two folders: en_US and es_AR (just because I am from Argentina, that's all).
I put the resource bundle in my application's mxml:

        [ResourceBundle("messages")]
    

Then I tried to compile the code with FlashDevelop getting the following error:

Error: Unable to resolve resource bundle "messages" for locale "en_US".
Build halted with errors (fcsh).

=S

I looked at several blogs and forums and the only thing I found was that I could not add parameters to fdbuild, but I could use the @mxmlc tag instead.

So I added this line to my application's mxml:

Using the QuickBuild option (Ctrl + F8) I was able to compile my code with localization.
So, once I had my code compiling and running, I changed every hardcoded label for the proper key:

Now, lets give the users the options to change the language:

For more information about this, please refer to the Adobe documentation at http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions:_Runtime_Localization

And this is the result.




Update: you can also use this way of localizing a flex application.