Class: UserMessage

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • converting
  • printing & storing
  • utilities

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--UserMessage

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

Interface-Internationalization

Version:

rev: 1.6 date: 2009/10/02 00:08:10

user: cg

file: UserMessage.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

added for vw5i compatibility, which accesses messageCatalogs
via:
      (#key << #catalogID >> 'defaultMessage')
which creates an instance of UserMessage.

Currently, this is a dummy operation in ST/X, however it is mapped onto
the resource mechanism, if the given catalogID is the name of a class;
i.e.
    (YesNoBox classResources string:'continue')
can now also be written as:
    (#continue << #YesNoBox) 

Class protocol:

 key: aKeySymbol catalogID: aCatalogSymbol

 key: aKeySymbol defaultString: aString

Instance protocol:

 catalogID

 catalogID: aCatalogSymbol

 defaultString

 defaultString: aString

 key

 key: aKeySymbol

 key: aKeySymbol catalogID: aCatalogSymbol

 key: aKeySymbol defaultString: aString

 asString

for now: return the defaultString, ignoring the catalogID.

 expandMacros

 expandMacrosWith: arg1

 string

 displayString

 << aSymbol

set the catalogID

 >> aString

set the default string

 lookupInMessageCatalog