On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:16 PM Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:47 PM Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I'll try a few things on my own and, if I find something that seems > reasonable, I will indicate it on this list. > > > > Some things to consider when working on this: > > 1. There are a few places in the code that alter the menus, removing > and/or adding items. One example is in Lib/idlelib/macosx.py, which > makes macOS-specific adjustments. I think the other examples have been > refactored by now, but some 3rd party extensions also add items to > menus. Therefore, when translating, try to translate the OS-specific > menu items which aren't defined in Lib/idlelib/mainmenu.py, but more > importantly, make sure to fall back to the English texts when no > translation is available > > 2. Besides underscores (_) for the keyboard shortcuts, the menu labels > can also contain an exclamation mark (!) to mark an item as a boolean > flag. There's a function named prepstr() in Lib/idlelib/editor.py that > returns menu labels without the underscores, but it doesn't remove the > boolean flag marks! Here's a little helper function to get the actual > displayed text, which would then need to be translated: > > def get_menuitem_display_text(menuitem): > label, _event = menuitem > label_noflag = label[1:] if label[0] == '!' else label > _underscore, display_text = prepstr(label_noflag) > return display_text > > The code that currently does this is somewhere deep inside editor.py; > make sure not to miss it! > I had noticed it - but I didn't see any item that ended with a !. (And I completely overlooked the MacOS stuff). I've had to take a bit of a crash course in Idle's code to get my hack to work. > > Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any technical > questions; I know this code rather well and I'm happy to help. > Thank you. André Roberge > > - Tal Einat >
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