Developing Arabic WPF applications – Part 3

I talked before about changing the input language in a textbox in Windows Forms but what about WPF? In WPF, you should use the InputLanguageManager class. You can use it in either the code or in the XAML markup. I wrote a sample to demo an application with default language set to Arabic(Egypt).

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"    xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"    xmlns:x="https://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"    InputLanguageManager.InputLanguage="ar-EG"    Title="Input Language Change" Height="300" Width="300">     <Grid>         <StackPanel Name="stackPanel1">         <TextBox InputLanguageManager.InputLanguage="en-US" InputLanguageManager.RestoreInputLanguage="True"  Name="textBox1" Margin="10,4,10,10"/>         <TextBox Name="textBox2" Margin="10,4,10,10" />         <TextBox Name="textBox3" Margin="10,4,10,10"/>             </StackPanel>     </Grid> </Window>

TextBox2 is set to English input by default while the rest of the textboxes default to Arabic. Notice to return back to the default input you need to set InputLanguageManager.RestoreInputLanguage="True" , since the default is “False”.

Notice, you need to make sure that the keyboard already exists in your OS.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2008
  PingBack from http://www.simplynetdev.com/developing-arabic-wpf-applications-%e2%80%93-part-3/

• Anonymous
  October 05, 2008
  You have a typo, I think you mean "TextBox1 is set to English..." not TextBox2.

• Anonymous
  February 06, 2009
  RestoreInputLanguage:  Exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks.

• Anonymous
  March 31, 2011
  Link to part 4 blogs.msdn.com/.../developing-arabic-wpf-applications-part-4.aspx