KnownColour in local language

[trisuglow]

I've got the following code in my application. When I run it on my English PC (with English .NET Framework) the combo box populates with "Red", "Yellow", "Blue".

I was hoping that when I ran it on a German PC it would populate with "Rot", "Gelbe", "Blau". This doesn't seem to happen. I hope this is just because I have English .NET installed on my German Win2000 PC.

Does anyone have a non-English language version of .NET framework installed? Could you test this for me please?


Thanks.

With cboColour.Items
            .Add(KnownColor.Red)
            .Add(KnownColor.Yellow)
            .Add(KnownColor.Blue)
 
            .SelectedItem = KnownColor.Red
        End With

[trisuglow]

Well, I reinstalled my German Win2000 PC with German .NET 1.1 and the German Language pack.

Guess what?

The combo still displays the colors (sic) in American.

Ah well...

[Ultimasnake]

well known colors are still static variables i guess.. just like when that a command like .CLICK wont become german in a german .net framework installed whatever

i think that something like blue just gets converted to 0,0,255 or so.


why did you want to do so anyway

[trisuglow]

It was easy to write the code if I just populated the combo box with KnownColor items - it took care of the text in the combo box and I could just apply the SelectedItem to my other objects when the user clicked on the combo. I was hoping that it would take care of the language translations for free as well.

I've had to rewrite it now to look up the colour names from a resource file and add them as string objects to the combobox. I also now have to use SelectedIndex and a Select Case construct to make the assignments to my objects when the user clicks on the combo.