ResourceBundleEditor

Resource Bundle Editor

Resource Bundle editor is a grant project developed by Denis Stepanov. Editor is designed for managing all localized property representations from one window.

Editor works in post NetBeans 6.5beta builds

Features

Two modes of displaying properties:

All keys from the resource bundle
Keys are hierarchical displayed as a tree where keys are grouped by a separator

Option to choose one of three separators ".", "-" or "_"
Editing all property representations from all locales in one window
Supported operations on properties:

Tree mode: cut, copy, paste, delete, duplicate
Flat mode: delete, duplicate

Editing comments
Warning icon on properties with empty locale value representation

Planned Features (Not implemented in the grant project)

Move property action
Comment/Uncomment property action
Saving properties in property files in sorted order
Find/Filter properties

User Guide

Open Resource Bundle Editor

Right click on a properties file and choose "Resouce Bundle Editor"

http://wiki.netbeans.org/attach/ResourceBundleEditor/Action2_ResourceBundleEditor.png

The plugin looks for .properties files derived from the filename of selected file.

e.g. Bundle.properties would open files like: - Bundle.properties - Bundle_cs.properties - Bundle_en.properties - Bundle_ru.properties - Bundle_es.properties - etc.

Editor actions

Tree/Flat - switch between tree and flat view mode
Expand all - expands all property groups when viewing properties in the tree mode
Collapse all - collapses all property groups when viewing properties in the tree mode
Create - creates new property with the key from the text field
Search for the property key - type property key into the text field

Property actions

Duplicate property - right click on the property and choose "Duplicate" action and enter new property key

Tree mode actions

Copy, Cut, Paste - you can use right menu actions or use default keyboard shortcuts
Delete property - use default keyboard shortcut (Del)

http://wiki.netbeans.org/attach/ResourceBundleEditor/Actions_ResourceBundleEditor.png

Edit property representation

Select property and you can edit all property representations from one window. Comment window can be opened using small button on the top of the property representation text edit field.

Properties without value in one of locale representations

There are displayed with a little warning icon. In the tree mode if property group contains property with an empty value it will be displayed with warning icon also.

http://wiki.netbeans.org/attach/ResourceBundleEditor/screen_ResourceBundleEditor.png