I can't seem to find the property that holds the tooltip displayed by the TabList button. The tooltip text changes when the overall style of the control is changed - so its there somewhere!!! Can someone give me a hint please...
I have a working application, with the style set to VisualStudio 2005 (since I like that myself), but this means the tooltip displayed is "Files" - where obviously I'd like to show something else, and still keep the overall style setting
Versions 8.1 and later now have English and Japanese resources, but I don't believe we have any language packs available. If you are just looking to localize everything, using the resource string tables in the help would be a good starting point, because every string you can change with the resource customizer is listed.
I know you gave me exact instructions (thank you by the way) - but that was my point. I would NOT have found the relevant resource string without your specific assistance. I would eventually have found the documentation, but then spent a long time searching and experimenting .
IAC, I have made the product suggestion to either update the docs, or expose the resources in a slightly difference manner.
I will have to globalise the app I'm working on in the next year or two (It why I'm particular about messages, tooltips...etc at present, I've been hunting down any/all literal strings in the app recently - to ensure my approach will work).
Does infragistics have any language/resource packs available for its libraries with pre-prepared translations? Yes I'm aware that this is a veritable minefield (particularly with error messages), but anything is a starting point as it saves me worrying about prioritising translation of strings in third party products...
I did mention it was a resource string in the Win assembly, and the resource strings are documented in the online documentation. You can find the strings for each assembly in the help tree under 'Windows Forms > Developer's Guide > The Toolset > Frameworks > Presentation Layer Framework (PLF) > Assembly Resource Strings'. In that section, there is an article for each assembly listing the resource keys and strings. However, if you would like to suggest an alternative approach to localizations, you can submit a feature request: http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Protected/RequestFeature.aspx.
Thanks, I got it working.
Err, after looking over the documentation on the resource strings, might I suggest a change to the documentation - include a column for the NAME of the control/object that each resource string is used by - even if its just the abstract class of a group of controls. As the documentation stands now, its impossible to find out what i was after then without being told explicitly - as I first went to the WinTabbedMDI resource strings thinking thats where I'd find stuff related to the UltraWinTabMDI control...
OR, have a resources dictionary object thats a property of the respective control, where I can interrogate the list to a) find the text I'm looking for (that is displayed by default), and by inference work out the resource string/key I need to change. Ideally, the same dictionary strings can be updated directly instead of having to instantiate exactly the right Resources.Customizer object
The tool tip is a resource string in the Win assembly. See the following help article for information on how to customize these resource strings: http://help.infragistics.com/Help/NetAdvantage/NET/2008.2/CLR2.0/html/Win_Customizing_Assembly_Resource_Strings.html. You will want to customize the 'TabManagerTabListButton' resource string.