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87      <H3 ALIGN="CENTER">Step 4. Populating the Bundle with Resources</H3>
88      <P><B>Working within a Group</B></P>
89      <P>In the tutorial file, following the process described in the previous
90        step, I created a group called 'Questions' and gave it a comment. To view
91        the group that you created, make sure that the base class at the top of
92        the file tree to the left is selected, press the 'Groups' tab on the right,
93        and select your group name from the drop down menu. With any luck, you
94        will see something like this:</P>
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96      <P>From this view, there are several options that are to be found in the
97        six buttons to the lower right. We are now going to create a resource.
98        This can be accomplished by either pressing the button 'Create Resource'
99        or selecting 'Add New Resource...' from the 'Options' menu at the top
100        of the screen.</P>
101      <P><B>Filling in Resource Information</B></P>
102      <P>Once you follow one of the above two steps, you should see a dialog similar
103        to the following:</P>
104      <P><IMG SRC="../images/screenshots/empty_resource.gif"></P>
105      <P>The group shown is the one currently being viewed when you clicked on
106        the 'Create Resource' button. If you used the menu to bring up this dialog,
107        it may be a different group. You may move the resource to any group you
108        wish by changing the value in this drop down box. Both the entry key and
109        the translation fields are required information. These make up the lookup
110        value and the translation value respectively stored in your bundle. The
111        comment field is there in order to aid those who will be translating your
112        work into other languages. This field provides a way for you to describe
113        the context of this particular resource.</P>
114      <P>There are a few ways to create the resource once the information is entered.
115        Pressing 'Create' will add the resource and close the dialog. If you wish
116        to continue creating resources after the current one, pressing 'Create
117        &amp; Continue' will create the resource, clear the information you have
118        just entered, and allow you to enter in a new resource. Pressing 'Cancel'
119        will close the dialog box and ignore any information currently entered.
120        As a short cut, you can also hit enter from any of the text boxes but
121        'Translation'. This will create the resource. Pressing enter from the
122        translation text box, creates a translation that spans multiple lines
123        of text.</P>
124      <P>A sample resource creation is show as follows:</P>
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126      <P><B>Using 'Look-ups'</B></P>
127      <P>Resource bundles provide a way of translating contextual information
128        as well. For instance, what if I wanted a translation asking the user
129        how old they were, and I wanted to ask it with their name inserted into
130        the question. The placement of their name might be different in different
131        languages. This is the reason for 'look-ups'. The java.text package defines
132        a way for implementing these look-ups using numbers surrounded by curly
133        braces. Thus, I might want to create a resource like the one below:</P>
134      <P><IMG SRC="../images/screenshots/lookup_resource.gif"></P>
135      <P>Once you enter anything into your translation surrounded by curly braces
136        and change the focus away from the translation field, the dialog box will
137        update itself with areas for you to enter descriptions of the look-ups
138        you have entered. This feature of RBManager allows future translators
139        to understand the context of each look-up.</P>
140      <P><B>Editing the Resources</B></P>
141      <P>From the 'Groups' tab view, you can at any time edit the default values
142        for a resource. As you enter in new resources they will appear in the
143        group view as shown:</P>
144      <P><IMG SRC="../images/screenshots/basic_group.gif" WIDTH="750" HEIGHT="432"></P>
145      <P>Double clicking on a resource will bring a dialog box up similar to the
146        one for creating a resource. Remember that it is only from this view that
147        you will be able to change the resource in a way that will effect the
148        entire bundle. Thus it is only in this view that you can change the resource's
149        group, key name, and default translation and comment.</P>
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