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18<h1>using the string bundle service</h1>
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20<div class="explanation">
21The second way to access string bundles is to call the <b>string bundle service</b> directly from JavaScript
22(the string bundle doesn't have to be refrenced in the XUL file, and stays outside the DOM tree):
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25<div class="sample">
26<p class="sampledesc">Sample XUL: openLocation.xul, calling some JS code</p>
27<div class="samplecontent">
28&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
29<br>&lt;!DOCTYPE dialog SYSTEM &quot;chrome://communicator/locale/openLocation.dtd&quot;&gt;
30<br>&lt;dialog id=&quot;openLocation&quot; ... title=&quot;&amp;caption.label;&quot; onLoad=&quot;onLoad();&quot;&gt;
31<br>&lt;script type=&quot;application/x-javascript&quot; src=&quot;chrome://communicator/content/openLocation.js&quot;/&gt;
32<br>...
33<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;menuitem value=&quot;0&quot; id=&quot;currentWindow&quot; label=&quot;&amp;topWindow.label;&quot;/&gt;
34<br>...
35<br>&lt;/dialog&gt;
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39<div class="sample">
40<p class="sampledesc">Sample JavaScript: openLocation.js</p>
41<div class="samplecontent">
42...
43<br>function onLoad()
44<br>{
45<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;dialog.main = document.getElementById("openLocation");
46<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;dialog.openTopWindow = document.getElementById("currentWindow");
47<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;var <b>strBundleService</b> = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/stringbundle;1"]<b>.getService</b>(Components.interfaces.nsIStringBundleService);
48<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;var brandbundle = strBundleService<b>.createBundle</b>("chrome://global/locale/brand.properties");
49<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;var dialogbundle = strBundleService<b>.createBundle</b>("chrome://communicator/locale/openLocation.properties");
50<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;if (!browser) {
51<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// No browser supplied - we are calling from Composer
52<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// Change string to make more sense for Composer
53<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dialog.openTopWindow.setAttribute("label", <b>dialogbundle.GetStringFromName</b>("<span class="hilite">existingNavigatorWindow</span>"));
54<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;// change title to 'Open Location with Mozilla'
55<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;var brandShortName = brandbundle.GetStringFromName("<span class="hilite">brandShortName</span>");
56<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;dialog.open.setAttribute("title", <b>dialogbundle.getFormattedString</b>("<span class="hilite">caption2.label</span>", brandShortName));
57<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;}
58<br>}
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60</div>
61
62<div class="sample">
63<p class="sampledesc">Sample string bundle: openLocation.properties</p>
64<div class="samplecontent">
65<span class="hilite">existingNavigatorWindow</span>=Existing Navigator window
66<br><span class="hilite">caption2.label</span>=Open Location with %S
67</div>
68</div>
69
70<div class="sample">
71<p class="sampledesc">Sample string bundle: brand.properties</p>
72<div class="samplecontent">
73<span class="hilite">brandShortName</span>=Mozilla
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