[pygtk] gtk.Builder and translation directory

[Cezary Krzyżanowski]

>
Answering to this post.

Actually I've got the same problem with gtk.Builder. All in-program  
strings get translated superbliy, but gtk.Labels and other widgets  
designed in glade-3 and converted to gtk.Builder xml don't. This is  
both by using the set_translation_domain property and not doing it.

The trick that works is doing something like this:

label.set_label(gettext(label.get_label()))

or in a more automated way:

class WorkingBuilder(gtk.Builder):
def get_object(self, name):
     obj = gtk.Builder.get_object(self, name)
     try:
         if type(obj) is gtk.Label:
             obj.set_markup(_(obj.get_label()))
         else:
             obj.set_text(_(obj.get_text()))
     except AttributeError:
         pass
     return obj

and using this patched Builder for all object creation. The PITA of  
this is that now I have to epxplicitly use get_object on each and  
every widget(label) I have defined in my GUI, even those, that I don't  
actually change or modify in the code ever!

I've tried using gtk.glade and it did the job automatically, so the  
translation files are deffinetely OK.

Czarek
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/2.11/GtkBuilder.html#GtkBuilder--translation-domain
>
> "The translation domain used when translating property values that
> have been marked as translatable in interface descriptions. If the
> translation domain is NULL, GtkBuilder uses gettext(), otherwise
> dgettext()."
>
> That is, GtkBuilder uses gettext directly, so whatever translations
> are loaded for gettext will be available for GtkBuilder.
> Here is how to set the translation domain and directory for gettext.
> It should then work, although I have not tested it specifically with
> GtkBuilder.
>
> >>> import gettext
> >>> gettext.bindtextdomain("myapp", "/path/to/locale/dir/")
> >>> gettext.textdomain("myapp")
>
> Laszlo
>
>
> 2009/3/1 Osmo Salomaa <otsal... at cc.hut.fi>:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm trying to move from Libglade to GtkBuilder and I have one  
> problem
> > remaining. gtk.glade had a bindtextdomain function (much like
> > gettext.bindtextdomain) that took the translation directory as an
> > argument. gtk.Builder seems to have a set_translation_domain  
> method, but
> > it's only for defining the domain. How do I set the directory  
> where to
> > search for translations to strings in GtkBuilder XML files?
> >