Plug in Internationalization

[Bartman]

I want to make a plug in ready to get translated.
I found this url=http://www.eventghost.org/wiki_old/inde ... nalization]wiki entry[[/url] but I only see the name and description of the actions and the plug in itself in the translate dialog. What am I missing?

[Bitmonster]

Do you have an example source?

[Bartman]

It is the FS20PCS plug in in the svn
http://www.eventghost.org/svn/trunk/plu ... _init__.py
It has a lot of dynamic classes and two special classes working slightly different.

P.S.
It would be great if you could upload a new beta including the plugin since the first devices will ship this week.

[Bitmonster]

Strings are only translatable, if they are inside a "text" class attribute of the action/plugin (with the exception of the name and description fields, that are automatically merged into such class).

So you have to do something like:

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    def AddNewAction(self, root, internalName, baseClass, classFuncCode, externalName, classDescription, classLabelFormat):
        class MyText:
            labelFormat = classLabelFormat
        class tmpAction(baseClass):
            text = MyText
            name = externalName
            description = classDescription
            funcCode = classFuncCode
        tmpAction.__name__ = internalName
        root.AddAction(tmpAction)

and then in your action:

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class SimpleAction(ActionBase):
    """Base class for all action that only take an address as input 
    """
    
    def GetLabel(self, address):
        return self.text.labelFormat.format(GetStringFromAddress(address, True))
                    ^^^^

[Bartman]

thx works for most situations but I am not able to translate the commen texts defined in the base classes ActionBase.
If I revert using the common Text class in the file I can see the attributes in the language editor.
If I define text = Text in the base classes the text attribute gets reassigned with the dynamicly created one and I cannot cannot access the attributes from the global text.
If I directly access the Text class in the base class the original text is always shown.
I think I understand what happens, but don't know how do it right.

I am refering to the address, timerValue,.. attributes (see updated file in svn)

[Bitmonster]

If the strings are defined in the plugin's "text" class, you have to access them through the plugin.

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panel.AddLine(self.plugin.text.timerValue, timerCtrl)