Hi I'm a newbie with big ambitions! (Sorry, got spoiled by C#)

Anyhow I'm toying with a D learning project and there are 2 .NET feature that will be welcome in this D project:

1. internationalization.
the app will contains a bunch of simple UIs and I was wondering how I would go on internationalizing the application. I.e. embed multiple "resource" for different languages in the EXE and show the appropriate ones for the target / running computer


2. I'd like a part of my library (in progress) to read / write some arbitrary settings. I was thing to use something akin to the DataContractSerialization we have in .NET
where I could define a few classes with attribute

[DataContract]
class Root
{
 [DataMember]
 public int Prop1 { get; set; }
 [DataMember]
 public B PropB { get; set; }
}

[DataContract]
class B
{
 [DataMember]
 public string Name { get; set; }
}

a reader / writer class can turn this class (using the atributes) into text (XML, JSON, I don't care) and back from text into object instance
How would I implement something similar in D? Is there already a library doing it? 

I found half the answer to question 1 (internationalization)
I still dunno how to get the local language (I guess I'll have to find the win32 method which return it)


but I found how to do the resources!! (using mixins)
what do you think?

=== D file ===
string[string][string] lang;
mixin(import("lang.txt"));
mixin(import("lang.fr.txt"));

=== lang.txt ==
lang["en"] = [
"start" : "start",
"quit"  : "quit",
];

=== lang.fr.txt
lang["fr"] = [
"start" : "demarrer",
"quit"  : "quitter",
];
============

"Lloyd Dupont"  wrote in message news:is5cs7$128p$1@digitalmars.com...

Hi I'm a newbie with big ambitions! (Sorry, got spoiled by C#)

Anyhow I'm toying with a D learning project and there are 2 .NET feature
that will be welcome in this D project:

1. internationalization.
the app will contains a bunch of simple UIs and I was wondering how I would
go on internationalizing the application. I.e. embed multiple "resource" for
different languages in the EXE and show the appropriate ones for the target
/ running computer


2. I'd like a part of my library (in progress) to read / write some
arbitrary settings. I was thing to use something akin to the
DataContractSerialization we have in .NET
where I could define a few classes with attribute

[DataContract]
class Root
{
 [DataMember]
 public int Prop1 { get; set; }
 [DataMember]
 public B PropB { get; set; }
}

[DataContract]
class B
{
 [DataMember]
 public string Name { get; set; }
}

a reader / writer class can turn this class (using the atributes) into text
(XML, JSON, I don't care) and back from text into object instance
How would I implement something similar in D? Is there already a library
doing it? 

On 2011-06-01 14:51, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> Hi I'm a newbie with big ambitions! (Sorry, got spoiled by C#)
>
> Anyhow I'm toying with a D learning project and there are 2 .NET feature
> that will be welcome in this D project:
>
> 1. internationalization.
> the app will contains a bunch of simple UIs and I was wondering how I
> would go on internationalizing the application. I.e. embed multiple
> "resource" for different languages in the EXE and show the appropriate
> ones for the target / running computer
>
>
> 2. I'd like a part of my library (in progress) to read / write some
> arbitrary settings. I was thing to use something akin to the
> DataContractSerialization we have in .NET
> where I could define a few classes with attribute
>
> [DataContract]
> class Root
> {
> [DataMember]
> public int Prop1 { get; set; }
> [DataMember]
> public B PropB { get; set; }
> }
>
> [DataContract]
> class B
> {
> [DataMember]
> public string Name { get; set; }
> }
>
> a reader / writer class can turn this class (using the atributes) into
> text (XML, JSON, I don't care) and back from text into object instance
> How would I implement something similar in D? Is there already a library
> doing it?

For the serialization you could have a look at Orange: http://www.dsource.org/projects/orange
Don't know if it works with the latest compilers, it's been a while since I updated the code. I'm also in the middle of complete rewrite of the library. At lease you can perhaps find some ideas.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Awesome! WIll take a look at it tonight!
Thanks for the link! :)

"Jacob Carlborg"  wrote in message news:is5msf$1lt0$1@digitalmars.com... 

On 2011-06-01 14:51, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> Hi I'm a newbie with big ambitions! (Sorry, got spoiled by C#)
>
> Anyhow I'm toying with a D learning project and there are 2 .NET feature
> that will be welcome in this D project:
>
> 1. internationalization.
> the app will contains a bunch of simple UIs and I was wondering how I
> would go on internationalizing the application. I.e. embed multiple
> "resource" for different languages in the EXE and show the appropriate
> ones for the target / running computer
>
>
> 2. I'd like a part of my library (in progress) to read / write some
> arbitrary settings. I was thing to use something akin to the
> DataContractSerialization we have in .NET
> where I could define a few classes with attribute
>
> [DataContract]
> class Root
> {
> [DataMember]
> public int Prop1 { get; set; }
> [DataMember]
> public B PropB { get; set; }
> }
>
> [DataContract]
> class B
> {
> [DataMember]
> public string Name { get; set; }
> }
>
> a reader / writer class can turn this class (using the atributes) into
> text (XML, JSON, I don't care) and back from text into object instance
> How would I implement something similar in D? Is there already a library
> doing it?

For the serialization you could have a look at Orange: http://www.dsource.org/projects/orange
Don't know if it works with the latest compilers, it's been a while since I updated the code. I'm also in the middle of complete rewrite of the library. At lease you can perhaps find some ideas.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

I'm looking!
mm... how do I download the repository!?! :~


"Jacob Carlborg"  wrote in message news:is5msf$1lt0$1@digitalmars.com... 

For the serialization you could have a look at Orange: http://www.dsource.org/projects/orange
Don't know if it works with the latest compilers, it's been a while since I updated the code. I'm also in the middle of complete rewrite of the library. At lease you can perhaps find some ideas.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

You need mercurial and do 'hg clone http://hg.dsource.org/projects/orange' from the command line.

Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> You need mercurial and do 'hg clone http://hg.dsource.org/projects/orange' from the command line.

	Or you can just click on the "zip", "gz" or "bz2" button at the top
of http://hg.dsource.org/projects/orange if you do not care about
the history.

		Jerome
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