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sujit
sujit

Reputation: 135

Multilanguage support for images in .Net

I have a desktop app build using .net. I want it to support multilanguages. I am able to do that using resources. Issue is what should I do for images which have text? Should I include all images for separate languages? If so then this will make it difficult and also will increase its size.

I just read that in Android there is "9 patch image", isn't there something similar?

I wish to add background image, and write text on top of that. This background image should resize without change in quality of the image automatically to the size of text in that language.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 244

Answers (2)

J.T. Taylor
J.T. Taylor

Reputation: 4277

I couldn't think of any way to avoid separate images with WinForms. WPF, no problem. Web app, no problem. I played around with both text and image on a Button control, but that does not scale fully. I tried using a label over a PIctureBox, but it is impossible to achieve transparency with a Label control. I also tried this using a WebBrowser control--such a thing could possibly work, but would take some further research and would probably change your deployment dramatically (since you would need to make the localization available from some http server).

So I think there is no easy way to do this--I could find nothing easier than maintaining the images separately.

Upvotes: 1

Rasshme
Rasshme

Reputation: 1641

In one of my projects, i had text displayed on top of images. Since the site was multilingual, so no text was part of the images. Instead text was displayed on top of the images, using css properties for absolute position. This had to be tested in all browsers, with multiple languages, as the text size varies in each language, this might break the UI. so enough space has to be provided for text considering all supported languages

Upvotes: 0

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