Re: Localisation for Apple menu in tclkit-darwin-aqua?

On 10 March 2010 20:25, Zbigniew Diaczyszyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Compiling an application with tclkit-darwin-aqua I wonder if it is possible
> to customize the Apple menu items for other languages than English.
>
> The application itself is using the msgcat package but "About Tcl/Tk" or
> "Preferences" and so on will appear in English although the Snow Leopard OS
> is running with a German version and the Finder, for example, is using
> German vocabulary.
>
> Can I tell tclkit-darwin-aqua to take the system's locale?
>
> Zbigniew

It is up to you to make the menus use msgcat. The Tk library does have
a couple of very useful but I think undocumented functions to help
with this. tk::AmpMenuArgs takes a menu and a msgcat string and
extracts the & marker so that any accelerators are localized along
with the string. A corresponding tk::AmpWidget creates widgets in the
same way.
eg:
  tk::AmpWidget ttk::label .dialog.name -text [mc "&Username"]
  tk::AmpWidget ttk::radiobutton .dialog.enable -text [mc "&Enable"]
and
 tk:AmpMenuArgs .menu.file add command -label [mc &Open] -command [list Open]
 tk::AmpMenuArgs .menu.file add command -label [mc &New] -command [list New]

You can see these being used in the console.tcl file and in the core
dialog implementations.

The systems locale is read on startup and msgcat::mclocale should
already be set to a suitable value (ie: de_de for a German system I
think.) If you have a msgs/de.msg file loaded it should make use of
it. In my application I've got the application binary in
tkchat.vfs/bin/tkchat.tcl and a tkchat.vfs/bin/msgs/ directory with
locale files. In the program code we call:
 msgcat::mcload [file join $starkit::topdir bin msgs]
so ensure msgcat looks in the right place.

Pat Thoyts

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