Filed under: Cocoa
Reading Hillegass’s book and came across this issue on page 41.
Do not create a project based on CoreFoundation. There is a Foundation project.
You will come across issues as I did as stated here:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-73684.html
Filed under: Web Performance
Filed under: Electronics
Looking at tvs for my dad and thought this monsterous TV is well worth the price based on reviews from Amazon and BestBuy:
Mitsubishi 73-inch WD-73737
http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/mitsubishi-wd-73737/4505-6482_7-33604505.html
Filed under: JavaScript
So just keeping track of where I can find a good API for cookies. This is a personal reference for myself and others (if applicable):
Filed under: Java
I’ve decided to be the good samaritan engineer and document software issues that I spent hours trying to find in google. Hopefully, by giving a descriptive title, search engines will be able to pick up this blog quicker.
MessageFormat doesn’t replace {0}
MessageFormat class worked the other day for me, but then it stopped. I spent hours trying to figure out what exactly what was the problem. Why wasn’t the {0} getting replaced properly by the arguments that I provided? I looked at my code over and over, but I couldn’t find what I was mistyping or misunderstanding. The google results kept pointing me back to read the Java API specs.
So what was the culprit??? The APOSTROPHE or single quote.
e.g.
test.key=Bernard’s blog is trying to tell you something about {0}.
So if one runs the code:
Object[] args = {“nothing”};
MessageFormat formatter = new MessageFormatter(resources.getString(“test.key”));
String test = formatter.format(args);
System.out.println(test); //prints: Bernard’s blog is trying to tell you something about {0}.
Why? The apostrophe in “Bernard’s” tells the formatter that you want the text to be displayed literally.
I did find this Sun bug report and it explains everything. Here is the technical response in the bug (which ended up not to be a bug, but expected behavior):
“This is the specified behavior, although admittedly it’s somewhat confusing. An apostrophe (also known as “single quote”) in a MessageFormat pattern starts a quoted string, in which {0} is just treated as a literal string and is not interpreted. Two single quotes in sequence in the pattern result in one single quote in the output string. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html#patterns for more information.”
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4839037
Resolution: Change the apostrophes to use '. This only applies in web contexts. Other solutions, you’re on you own.
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