Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?
Phil Schmidt wrote: Eric Brunel wrote: But Marc's answer still applies: it's a lot of work for something that will usually be configured once. So requiring to restart the tool when the UI language changes should be acceptable. Thanks for the example, that helps. I agree with you and Marc regarding the language configuration method. The requirements aren't mine however - my customer wants the language selectable at runtime, so I'm kind of stuck with that. You might also explain to the customer that of any menu elements are ordered alphabetically, the result of changing the language will be jarring to the user, as well as expensive to implement. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
How to change menu text with Tkinter?
I am making a little Tkinter GUI app that needs to be in several languages (english, french, etc.), adjustable at runtime via a menu pick to select the language. The only way I can see to change text in the menus entries is to destroy them and recreate them usiing different labels. This seems very clunky though, and there must be a better way. Can anyone offer any pointers or a short example for how to do this? Thanks, Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Schmidt wrote: I am making a little Tkinter GUI app that needs to be in several languages (english, french, etc.), adjustable at runtime via a menu pick to select the language. The only way I can see to change text in the menus entries is to destroy them and recreate them usiing different labels. This seems very clunky though, and there must be a better way. Can anyone offer any pointers or a short example for how to do this? Do you really need this at runtime or is it enough to store the language in a config file and ask the user to restart the application? Then using the `gettext` module is a good way. Maybe in combination with the `locale` module so you can use the language of the operating system as default if the user doesn't choose one explicitly. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?
Phil Schmidt wrote: I am making a little Tkinter GUI app that needs to be in several languages (english, french, etc.), adjustable at runtime via a menu pick to select the language. The only way I can see to change text in the menus entries is to destroy them and recreate them usiing different labels. This seems very clunky though, and there must be a better way. Can anyone offer any pointers or a short example for how to do this? Try this: menu.entryconfig(index, label=new_name) HTH, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:29:32 +0200, Phil Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am making a little Tkinter GUI app that needs to be in several languages (english, french, etc.), adjustable at runtime via a menu pick to select the language. The only way I can see to change text in the menus entries is to destroy them and recreate them usiing different labels. This seems very clunky though, and there must be a better way. Can anyone offer any pointers or a short example for how to do this? Here is a way: -- from Tkinter import * root = Tk() mb = Menu(root) root.configure(menu=mb) fm = Menu(mb) mb.add_cascade(label='File', menu=fm) def chlg(): mb.entryconfigure(1, label='Fichier') fm.entryconfigure(1, label='Changer de langue') fm.entryconfigure(2, label='Quitter') fm.add_command(label='Change language', command=chlg) fm.add_command(label='Quit', command=root.quit) root.mainloop() -- Note that the entry indices start at 1 because of the 'tearoff' entry that is always created in a menu. If you specify the option tearoff=0 when creating the menus, indices will start ot 0. But Marc's answer still applies: it's a lot of work for something that will usually be configured once. So requiring to restart the tool when the UI language changes should be acceptable. Thanks, Phil HTH -- python -c print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-']) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to change menu text with Tkinter?
Eric Brunel wrote: But Marc's answer still applies: it's a lot of work for something that will usually be configured once. So requiring to restart the tool when the UI language changes should be acceptable. Thanks for the example, that helps. I agree with you and Marc regarding the language configuration method. The requirements aren't mine however - my customer wants the language selectable at runtime, so I'm kind of stuck with that. Phil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
