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View 1. The Resource Bundle Tree
Located on the left of the RB Manager application is a section for displaying a resource bundle in a tree view. Resource Bundles usually are made up of text or class files in a flat directory structure. However, the locale encodings given to each file makes a tree view a natural way to look at the bundle.
When RB Manager is initially launched, this view is empty, since there is no open resource bundle. Upon opening a valid resource bundle, the tree is updated to reflect the opened bundle. In the following screen shots, you will see the tree for the resource bundle associate with RB Manager itself.
The top most element of the tree (the root of the tree) represents the resource bundle as a whole. Below the root are resource files, which are represented with the file icons with a letter in the middle, and language, country, and variant branches. Language branches are represented by an icon with a globe. Beneath these can be language branches represented by an icon with a flag. Beneath these can be variant branches represented by an icon with a cartoon dialog symbol. Beneath any of the branch nodes, resource files can be found.
The name of the root of the tree is the base name of the resource bundle, in the example above, the bundle is called RBManager. The name of the file nodes in the tree will vary according to where in the tree they are. Each language file will display the language, country, and variant information that it knows about followed by the encoding of the file's locale in parenthesies. The branch nodes will indicate whether they are language, country, or variant branches, and will display the encoding associated with that branch.
RB Manager functions in two basic ways for everything it does, either for the resource bundle as a whole or for an individual resource file. To make changes and updates to the entire resource bundle, select the root node notated by the 'RB' icon at the top of the tree. This will also cause the statistics and search views to present results reflecting the status of the entire bundle. To work with an individual resource file, select a file from the tree by clicking on it. Now changes and views will reflect only this selected resource file.
Note that selecting the various branch nodes does not have any meaning in the current version of RBManager. In future versions the ability to work on subtrees may be added, but for now either select the resource bundle or an individual file.
Understanding the difference between working with the resource bundle and working with a resource file is crucial to using RB Manager. Normally developers adding resources or manager wishing to know the statuts of translation efforts will work from the root level. Translators and managers of individual resource files will more often work from the resource file level. Once the difference is understood, the functionality of the views in the tab will be easier to understand.