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C++, .NET

Summary

How to determine Rhino's current language setting when developing localized plug-ins.

Rhino provides support for multiple languages. And, Rhino's language setting is independent of the operating system's language setting. Thus, as a plug-in developer, knowing Rhino's current language setting is important if you plan on supporting multiple languages.

More Information

Rhino stores it's current Locale ID (LCID) in a CRhinoAppAppearanceSettings object that is held within Rhino applications settings object, or CRhinoAppSettings.

Example

The following is an example of how to determine Rhino's current language setting.

C++

  ON_wString wstr;
  CRhinoAppSettings settings = ::RhinoApp().AppSettings();
  CRhinoAppAppearanceSettings appearance = settings.AppearanceSettings();


  switch( appearance.m_language_identifier )
  {
  case 1028: // zh-tw
    wstr = L"Chinese - Taiwan";
    break;
  case 1029: // cs
    wstr = L"Czech";
    break;
  case 1031: // de-de
    wstr = L"German - Germany";
    break;
  case 1033: // en-us
    wstr = L"English - United States";
    break;
  case 1034: // es-es
    wstr = L"Spanish - Spain";
    break;
  case 1036: // fr-fr
    wstr = L"French - France";
    break;
  case 1040: // it-it
    wstr = L"Italian - Italy";
    break;
  case 1041: // ja
    wstr = L"Japanese";
    break;
  case 1042: // ko
    wstr = L"Korean";
    break;
  case 1045: // pl
    wstr = L"Polish";
    break;
  case 2052: // zh-cn
    wstr = L"Chinese - China";
    break;
  default:
    wstr = L"unknown";
    break;
  }
  ::RhinoApp().Print( L"The current language is \"%s\"" , wstr );

VB.NET (Rhino 4)

  Public Overrides Function RunCommand(ByVal context As IRhinoCommandContext) _
    As IRhinoCommand.result


    Dim settings As MRhinoAppSettings = RhUtil.RhinoApp.AppSettings
    Dim appearance As IRhinoAppAppearanceSettings = settings.AppearanceSettings()
    Dim id As Integer = CType(appearance.m_language_identifier, Integer)
    Dim culture As New System.Globalization.CultureInfo(id)
    RhUtil.RhinoApp.Print("The current language is " + culture.EnglishName + vbCrLf)
    Return IRhinoCommand.result.success
  End Function

C# (Rhino 4)

  public override IRhinoCommand.result RunCommand(IRhinoCommandContext context)
  {
    MRhinoAppSettings settings = RhUtil.RhinoApp().AppSettings();
    IRhinoAppAppearanceSettings appearance = settings.AppearanceSettings();


    int id = (int)appearance.m_language_identifier;
    System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo(id);
    RhUtil.RhinoApp().Print( "The current language is " + culture.EnglishName + "\n" );
    return IRhinoCommand.result.success;
  }