ACTIONSCRIPT 3 Developer’s Guide en

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Internationalizing applications
var phrase:String = "Schloß Neuschwanstein";
var converter:StringTools = new StringTools("de-DE");
var upperPhrase:String = converter.toUpperCase(phrase);
trace(upperPhrase); // SCHLOSS NEUSCHWANSTEIN
var lowerPhrase:String = converter.toLowerCase(upperPhrase);
trace(lowerPhrase);// schloss neuschwanstein
The toUpperCase() method transforms the lowercase letter “ß” into the uppercase letters “SS”. This transformation
works only in one direction. When the letters “SS” are transformed back to lowercase, the result is “ss” not “ß”.
Example: Internationalizing a stock ticker application
Flash Player 10.1 and later, Adobe AIR 2.0 and later
The Global Stock Ticker application retrieves and displays fictitious data about stocks in three different stock markets:
the United States, Japan, and Europe. It formats the data according to the conventions of various locales.
This example illustrates the following features of the flash.globalization package:
Locale-aware number formatting
Locale-aware currency formatting
Setting currency ISO code and currency symbols
Locale-aware date formatting
Retrieving and displaying appropriate month name abbreviations
To get the application files for this sample, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_programmingAS3samples_flash. The Global
Stock Ticker application files can be found in the folder Samples/GlobalStockTicker. The application consists of the
following files:
File Description
GlobalStockTicker.mxm
l
or
GlobalStockTicker.fla
The user interface for the application for Flex (MXML) or Flash (FLA).
styles.css Styles for the application user interface (Flex only).
com/example/program
mingas3/stockticker/fle
x/FinGraph.mxml
com/example/program
mingas3/stockticker/fla
sh/GlobalStockTicker.as
comp/example/progra
mmingas3/stockticker/f
lash/RightAlignedColu
mn.as
An MXML component that displays a chart of simulated stock data, for Flex only.
Document class containing the user interface logic for the application (Flash only).
A custom cell renderer for the Flash DataGrid component (Flash only).
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