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  18 <h1>using the string bundle service</h1>
  19
  20 <div class="explanation">
  21 The 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):
  23 </div>
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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;
  36 </div>
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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>}
  59 </div>
  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
  74 </div>
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