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Problem In the article How to let user enter date with a popup calendar - Part 2?, you allow users to enter date through a popup calendar.
You would like to display the calendar in your native language as shown below:
Solution Note that this has only been tested on winxp only. Not sure if it works on linux.
The method described here will work for both English and non-English winxp.
- First you need to go to Control Panel - Regional and Language Options - Advanced, and select your native language, as shown below. Let's take Russian as an example.
Click <OK> and you will be prompted to reboot your system.
- Add
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'rus') before creating the GtkCalendar widget.
- For Russian, use 'rus'
- For German, use 'deu'
- For French, use 'fra'
- For Portuguese (Brazilian), use 'ptb'
- For Chinese (simplified), use 'chs'
- For Chinese (traditional), use 'cht'
- For Japanese, use 'jpn'
- For Korean, use 'kor'
For other countries, you may refer to: here.
- Then add the following 3 lines after creating the GtkCalendar widget.
$style = $this->calendar->style->copy();
$style->font = new PangoFontDescription('Arial 12');
$this->calendar->set_style($style);
Sample Code Note: If you have installed php-gtk2 using Gnope Installer on Windows, and if running the sample code below gives you warning that the Symbolic names for keys (e.g. Gdk::KEY_Return) is not defined, you might want to update your php-gtk2 with the latest php-gtk2.dll available here. Simply download the php-gtk2.dll and replace the copy in the folder php-gtk2\ext. The latest compilation has put in the Symbolic names for keys listed here.
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$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_size_request(400, 150);
$window->set_position(Gtk::WIN_POS_CENTER_ALWAYS);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Press F1 to choose a date");
$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$title->set_size_request(-1, 40);
$vbox->pack_start($title, 0, 0);
$hbox = new GtkHBox();
$vbox->pack_start($hbox, 0, 0);
$hbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel("Select Date: "), 0, 0);
$hbox->pack_start($entry = new GtkEntry(), 0, 0);
// let us know when user press F1 key
$entry->connect('key-press-event', 'on_keypress', $entry);
function on_keypress($widget, $event, $entry) {
// we only want F1. return all the rest
if ($event->keyval!=Gdk::KEY_F1) return false;
$selected_date = get_date();
$entry->set_text($selected_date);
$entry->grab_focus();
}
function get_date() {
$getdate_dialog = new GetDate();
$date = $getdate_dialog->calendar->get_date();
$selected_date = 1+$date[1].'/'.$date[2].'/'.$date[0];
return $selected_date;
}
class GetDate{
var $calendar;
function GetDate() {
$dialog = new GtkDialog('Get Date', null, Gtk::DIALOG_MODAL);
$dialog->set_position(Gtk::WIN_POS_CENTER_ALWAYS);
$top_area = $dialog->vbox;
$top_area->pack_start($hbox = new GtkHBox());
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'chs'); // note 1
$this->calendar = new GtkCalendar();
$top_area->pack_start($this->calendar, 0, 0);
// then add these 3 lines note 2
$style = $this->calendar->style->copy();
$style->font = new PangoFontDescription('Arial 12');
$this->calendar->set_style($style);
$this->calendar->connect('day-selected', array(&$this, 'on_select'), 'day-selected');
$this->calendar->connect('month-changed', array(&$this, 'on_select'), 'month-changed');
$dialog->connect('button-press-event', array(&$this, 'on_button_press'));
$this->dialog = $dialog;
$dialog->set_has_separator(false);
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Explanation
- This sets the locale.
- Frankly speakly, I don't know why this works. Just happen to discover this while working on the example code for How to let user enter date with a popup calendar - Part 2?
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