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This posting has nothing to do with IDML or the IDMLlib, but some of you might run in to the same problem as I am, switching the language of a localized Flash Builder 4 installation. If you have a localized version of the Creative Suite 5, it is inevitable (IMHO) that the Flash Builder 4 will also end up in a localized version on your system.
As there is no way to change the language in any preference dialog that I am aware of, I started to investigate the ini files. For my excuse I have to say, that I belong to the minority of developers who is not using the Eclipse IDE for my Java development. So if this is common knowledge, ignore this article. Anyways, if you want to switch the Flash Builder 4 GUI to a different language, locate the Flash Builder application bundle and use the right click (CTRL-Click) Show Package Content on the app-bundle to open the application directory.
In the directory open the Contents/MacOS/Adobe Flash Builder 4.ini file in a editor of your choice, I use TextWrangler for that task. The file should look like my file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | -nl de_DE -startup ../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar --launcher.library ../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.carbon.macosx_1.0.200.v20090520-1835 -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=64m -Xdock:name=Flash Builder -Xdock:icon=../Resources/fb_app.icns -XstartOnFirstThread -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.noFocusRing -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts |
On line 2 you can see the current language being set to “de_DE”, which is the Java locale for German. To change the language to English, change this line to “en_US”.
This ini file also contains the memory settings for your Flash Builder installation. Change line 8 to 11 to your liking to assign additional memory. For example this is my complete ini file that uses English as the GUI Language and has 1024mb assigned to the Eclipse instance, which is recommended if you have additional plugins installed like the Extension Builder.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | -nl en_US -startup ../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar --launcher.library ../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.carbon.macosx_1.0.200.v20090520-1835 -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=64m -Xdock:name=Flash Builder -Xdock:icon=../Resources/fb_app.icns -XstartOnFirstThread -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.noFocusRing -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts |
However, all the documentation stays the way it was installed, all your examples and home screens are still in the language of the Creative Suite installation. If there is an easier way to change the UI language, use the comments to give your advice.