[KBK] 9 July 2002 - A correspondent, interesting in doing a translation of Tk's internal message catalog, asks: 1. What is the procedure to assign proper hot key bindings for the new messages (those letters after & sign)? Good question. As far as I can determine, the following table indicates which hotkeys must be distinct. An X in a given cell indicates that the accelerator in its row appears in at least one dialog together with the accelerator in its column. For example, the accelerator chosen for "Cancel" must be distinct from the ones chosen for "Blue", "Green", "OK", "Red", and "Selection:". The dialogs that I've examined are: tk_messageBox tk_openFile tk_saveFile tk_chooseDirectory tk_chooseColor All of these have been examined on Windows and Unix, with ::tk_strictMotif set to both 0 and 1. &Abort | - &Blue | - &Cancel | X - &Directory: | X - File &name: | X X - File &names: | - Files of &type: | X X X - Fi&les: | X X - &Filter | X X X - Fil&ter: | X X X X - &Green | X X - &Ignore | X - &No | X - &OK | X X X X X X X - &Open | X X X X - &Red | X X X X - &Retry | X X X - &Save | X X X X - &Selection: | X X X X X X X X X - &Yes | X X - +------------------------------------------------------------ & & & & F F F F & F & & & & & & & & & & A B C D i i i i F i G I N O O R R S S Y b l a i l l l & i l r g o K p e e a e e o u n r e e e l l & e n e d t v l s r e c e s e t t e o n r e e t e c & & s e e n r y c l t n n o r r e t o a a f i r m m o y e e & n s t y p e 2. Is there any application that uses all or at least great number of these messages? Good translation requires good understanding of a context in which the messages appear. Another good question. All of these messages are used by Tk itself. In particular, you can see most of them by doing the following: (1) Bring up Wish on Windows. The console menu has the following: Console File Edit Help Source... Cut About... Hide Console Copy Clear Console Paste Exit Delete (On the Mac, ''Delete'' is replaced with ''Clear''). The "Source..." menu item brings up a dialog identical to the one from ''tk_getOpenFile'' that inclides the messages Select a file to source Tcl Scripts All Files The "About..." menu item brings up a message box with the message Tcl for Windows followed by the version numbers of Tcl and Tk. (2) Enter in the console the command: after 0 error Testing which will display the dialog from ''bgerror''. This dialog includes the messages Application Error OK Skip Messages Details>> If ''Details>>'' is selected, the dialog expands to show a stack trace, and the ''Details>>'' button is replaced with ''Save To Log''. This last button opens the dialog from ''tk_getSaveFile'', which includes the messages Select Log File Log Files Text Files All Files (3) Experiment with ''tk_getOpenFile'', ''tk_getSaveFile'', and ''tk_chooseDirectory'' on Unix with ''::tk_strictMotif'' set to both '''0''' and '''1'''. The messages that result in the various dialogs and the error dialogs that can ensue include: Choose Directory Open Open Multiple Files Save As - Titles for the dialog &Directory - The directory in which a file appears File &name - The name of the file to open or save Fi&les - The list of files from which to choose Files of &type - The allowable file types &Filter - (Verb) The button that asks to update the list of files according to a glob pattern Fil&ter - (Noun) The glob pattern that chosen files must match &Selection - The name of the directory to choose, or of the file to open or save (Motif) &Open - The button that opens a file for reading &Save - The button that opens a file for writing &Cancel - The button that cancels the operation &OK - The button that confirms a file or directory choice. Cannot change to the directory "%1$s. Permission denied. Directory "%1$s" does not exist. File "%1$s" already exists. Do you want to overwrite it? File "%1$s" already exists. File "%1$s does not exist. Invalid file name "%1$s". Replace existing file? (3) Do ''tk_chooseColor'' on Unix. The resulting dialog has the messages Color &Red &Green &Blue &Selection: - The color that has been selected &OK &Cancel (4) Experiment with the various types of ''tk_messageBox'': the buttons in the box can be &Abort &Retry &Ignore &OK &Cancel &Retry &Cancel &Yes &No &Yes &No &Cancel That should cover most of what you see in one of the .msg files.