In a previous article, I blogged about Flex i18n[1] and an “Inversion of Control” (IOC) approach to radically simplify localization issues within your Flex solutions. That article discussed the issues with the current, traditional localization implementations [used in Flex applications] and then presented the new LocalizationMap solution. In this Part 2 on Flex l10n solutions, I offer a video tutorial, a demo of a Registration application localized to support Spanish and English, and an architecture diagram of LocalizationMap usages. Also included with the live Flex demo is source...

At some point, Flash and Flex developers encounter the issues of modifying a Flex/Flash rich internet application (RIA) to support another language and accomodate software changes for specific cultural preferences. This article focuses on localization of Flash solutions implemented with Flex 3 or Flex 4. Both Flash CS4 and the Flex frameworks provide localization tools and programmatic support features for Flash applications and widgets. Unfortunately the support for localization differs significantly between the toolsets and frameworks offered. Internationalization (i18n)[1] is the process of...