[Gambas-user] New experimental feature in revision #5964

[Benoît Minisini]

Hi,

In revision #5964, I added an experimental feature that may break your 
projects, so read carefully:

As I found stupid to translate the strings "&Open file", "Open file", 
"Open file..." in menus, buttons and equivalent controls, now the IDE 
automatically remove the "..." and the "&" from the translated strings, 
so that only the "Open file" string has to be translated.

Moreover, now, opening a popup menu automatically assigns underscore 
shortcuts to menu entries not having one, so you don't have to define 
them anymore.

I have now about 7% less strings to translate in the IDE. I updated all 
the translations so that normally no translation has been lost.

Of course, all that is based on little tricks:

- A new Shortcut class defined in the gb.gui.base class that is used by 
the IDE to remove "underscore" shortcuts from the translated string, and 
add it back after the string has been translated (if possible!).

- Some Gambas code called in the gb.gui.base components by the Menu 
class to automatically assign underscore shorcuts.

- A new hidden _Text property in the Menu class to remember the original 
Text value so that automatically assigned shortcuts are not visible to 
the Gambas code. Of course, don't use that property for your own needs!

I added a "Update all forms" entry in the "Tools" menu, so that you can 
update your project in one shot. If you use it, you will lose 
translations! But you can recover them by using the "Import" feature of 
the translation dialog that you will run on the original *.po files that 
you will find in the project backup you had carefully done. Did you?

So, save your projects carefully, and tell me if you encounter problems 
with that new feature...

Only the IDE and one example have been updated at the moment.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini